Aug. 26, 2008

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 which had already been released.

The Flyer Faithful will have the opportunity to see some of the best talent in the conference on Tom Blackburn Court.

All four underclassmen from last year's all-league team will visit the Arena, along with four of the six members of the all-rookie team. All-Atlantic 10 selections Dionte Christmas of Temple, Dan Geriot of Richmond, Kevin Lisch of Saint Louis and Ahmad Nivins of Saint Joseph's will come to the Arena (although Geriot has suffered an off-season knee injury and his status for the season is uncertain).

Members of the 2008 Atlantic 10 All-Rookie Team playing in the Arena will be Temple's Lavoy Allen, Richmond's Kevin Anderson, Duquesne's Damian Saunders and of course, Dayton's Chris Wright.

Dayton will face Duquesne, Saint Louis and Xavier home-and-home, and all other A-10 schools once.

The 2009 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship will be held at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey for the second straight year, March 11-14

UD will play a non-conference schedule that includes teams from the Big East, the Colonial Athletic Conference, Conference USA, the MAC, the Missouri Valley and the SEC.

The Flyers will play two pre-season exhibition games in the Arena - Thursday, November 6 against Capital, and Tuesday, November 11 against Gannon.

Game times and the 2008-09 TV schedule and will be announced at a later date.