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In Atlantic 10 Conference play the Flyers will host five opponents who played in the postseason last year, including all three NCAA teams. |
The University of Dayton has announced its complete men's basketball schedule, including a just-finalized 16-game Atlantic 10 Conference schedule and the 15-game non-conference schedule released earlier this summer.
While the complete Flyer basketball television schedule has yet to be finalized, the Atlantic 10 released its slate of games that will be seen on the ESPN family of networks, CBS College Sports and CBS College Sports Regional.
In Atlantic 10 Conference play, the Flyers will host five opponents who played in the postseason last year, including all three NCAA teams. The Flyers will play home-and-home A-10 games with Duquesne, Saint Louis and Xavier. In addition, Dayton will play host to Fordham, Richmond, St. Bonaventure, Saint Joseph's and Temple. On the road, UD will play Charlotte, George Washington, La Salle, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
The 2011 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship will be held March 8-13. The top four seeds in the tournament will receive a first-round bye, and four first-round games will be played at campus sites on Tuesday, March 8. Eight teams will advance to Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City for the quarterfinals, semifinals and finals, March 11-13. The championship game will be televised by CBS on Sunday, March 14.
Coming off the 2010 NIT Championship, Dayton’s non-conference opponents include teams from the BIG EAST, CAA, MAC, Mountain West and SEC. The Flyers will play eight games against teams that were in the postseason in 2009-10.
All four away games (Cincinnati, Mississippi, Old Dominion and Seton Hall) will be against teams who played in the NCAA or NIT Tournaments.
The 2010-11 non-conference schedule features 11 homes contests at UD Arena. Included in that group are NCAA Tournament participant New Mexico, College Basketball Invitational participant Akron and CollegeInsider.com Tournament contestants George Mason and Western Carolina.
Dayton will have three extra home games this year as part of the Global Sports “Main Event” exempt tournament. UD opens the season on Saturday, Nov. 13 against the Mount St. Mary’s Mountaineers, hosts Savannah State on Monday, Nov. 22 and Florida A&M on Wednesday, Nov. 24. The Flyers will then travel down I-75 to play the Cincinnati Bearcats on Saturday, Nov. 27 at U.S. Bank Arena.
UD’s exhibition games will be Monday, November 1 against Grand Valley State and Saturday, November 6 against Findlay.
Counting exhibitions, the Flyers will play on 14 games Saturdays (8 at home), nine games on Wednesdays, three apiece on Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays, and one on a Thursday.
Dayton returns nine letterwinners from last year’s 25-12 squad that won the NIT Championship, including team MVP Chris Wright and NIT MVP Chris Johnson.
A First Team All-Atlantic 10 selection, Wright averaged 13.7 points and 7.3 rebounds during the 2009-10 campaign. He spent part of the summer practicing against the U.S. national team as part of USA Basketball’s Men’s Select Team. Johnson also earned the Atlantic 10’s Chris Daniels Memorial Most Improved Player Award winner in 2010 after averaging 11.9 points and 6.9 rebounds per game last season.
The Flyers will also welcome five new faces to the program in 2010-11 led by Oak Hill Academy point guard Juwan Staten.
Game times and the complete 2010-110 TV schedule will be announced at a later date.
The University of Dayton has announced its complete men's basketball schedule, including a just-finalized 16-game Atlantic 10 Conference schedule and the 15-game non-conference schedule released earlier this summer.
