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The No. 7 seed University of Dayton Flyers (27-2) will open the 2013 NCAA Tournament at No. 10 seed St. John’s (18-12) in Queens, N.Y. on Sunday, March 24 at 2:30 p.m. ET at Carnesecca Arena. The game will be aired on ESPN2 with Bob Picozzi and Rosalyn Gold-Onwude on the call. Shane White will also broadcast the game on DaytonFlyers.com.

Carnesecca Arena will also be the host site for No. 2 seed Kentucky and No. 15 seed Navy, who will play the first game on Sunday, March 24 with a noon tip off.

The Second Round game will be played on Tuesday, March 26 at 7 p.m. on ESPN2.

Tickets for the First and Second Round at Carnesecca Arena are $25 for adults, $15 for students and seniors for the all-session pass. Single-session tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors and $5 for groups of 20 or more. Visit our host site page to order online or call the St. John’s Ticket Office at 1-888-Go-Storm. For groups of 20 or more, please call 718-990-2142 to order. Tickets are on sale now.

The Regional sites for the 2013 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship will be Norfolk, Va., Oklahoma City, Okla., Spokane, Wash., and Bridgeport, Conn. Those games will be played March 30-April 2.

The Final Four will be played on April 7 and 9 in New Orleans, La., at New Orleans Arena.

SERIES INFO
The series is tied 1-1 between UD and St. John's. Dayton won the first meeting 91-77 at the Women's Court Classic in Miami, Fla. on Dec. 29, 1984. The Red Storm returned the favor with a 73-61 win over the Flyers on Dec. 21, 2003 at the Buckeye Classic in Columbus, Ohio.

ABOUT ST. JOHN'S
St. John’s (18-12, 11-5 BIG EAST) finished the season tied for third in the BIG EAST conference, in a three-way tie with Louisville and Syracuse at 11-5 in league play. For the fourth-straight season, the St. John’s women’s basketball team earned an At-Large bid to the NCAA Tournament. The 2012-13 season marks St. John's eighth appearance in the NCAA Tournament with its first in 1983. Overall St. John's has a record of 6-7 in the Big Dance and has made it to the Second Round four times (1988, 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012).Senior guards Shenneika Smith and Nadirah McKenith were voted to the All-BIG EAST First team, while rookie guard Aliyyah Handford received unanimous BIG EAST All-Freshman team honors.

DAYTON IN NCAA
>> Dayton is 1-3 all-time in NCAA Tournament games.

>> With their berth in the 2013 NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship, the Flyers earned their fourth consecutive trip.

>> Last year UD earned an automatic berth to the 2012 NCAA Championship after winning the program’s first-ever A-10 Tournament Championship.  UD was the No. 11 seed in the Raleigh region. The Flyers lost 72-55 to No. 6 seed Arkansas in College Station, Texas at Reed Arena.

>> In 2011 Dayton earned the No. 11 seed and lost to host and No. 6 seed Penn State, 75-66, at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, Pa.

>> The Flyers earned their first-ever NCAA Tournament berth and win in 2009-10. Dayton earned the No. 8 seed and erased an 18-point deficit to defeat No.9 seed TCU 67-66.  Dayton lost to No. 1 seed Tennessee 92-64 in the second round in Knoxville, Tenn. in the 2010 NCAA tourney.

FLYER NOTES
>> UD won its first Atlantic 10 Tournament Championship in 2012 and earned the 2013 A-10 Regular Season Championship, also a program first.

>> The Flyers have made five consecutive postseason appearances, including three straight to the NCAA Tournament.

>> With their 27-2 record this season it marks the sixth season in a row that the Flyers have won 20+ games. The 27 wins breaks a program record since becoming NCAA D-I.

>> Jim Jabir’s highest winning percentage as a head coach (.767) was last season. His previous best was (.758) in 2009-10. It is currently .931.

REGULAR SEASON CHAMPS
>> #12/12 Dayton earned its first-ever Atlantic 10 regular season championship on Sunday with a 73-66 win over Saint Joseph’s Hawks.  A crowd of 5,288 at UD Arena cheered on as the Flyers became just the sixth Atlantic 10 team to finish the conference season undefeated. UD was led by sophomore Andrea Hoover’s 19 points and senior Sam MacKay’s 18 points and seven assists. Freshman Kelley Austria came off the bench to add 11 points with five steals. With its win over Saint Joseph’s in the regular season, Dayton is the only school in NCAA Division I to have both its volleyball (14-0) and women’s basketball (14-0) teams go undefeated in conference play during the 2012-13 season.

- UD’s defense had a season-high 11 blocked shots in its win over George Washington in the A-10 quarterfinals, which is second all-time in A-10 Championship history (only behind West Virginia’s 13 set in 1985 against UMass).

MORE ON THE FLYERS
- UD’s 14 A-10 wins is a UD record for the program. Their  27 wins breaks the program record since becoming NCAA Division I.

- UD lost seven seniors, including four starters, from the 2011-12 squad, but is replacing the loss with an impressive freshman class of six newcomers. This Flyer class is ranked 1st nationally for a non-BCS school, 31st overall and 1st in the Atlantic 10.

- The Flyers are currently ranked No. 18 in the AP Top 25 poll and No. 15 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

- Dayton is in its 18th season in the Atlantic 10. The Flyers have earned a berth to the tournament every year since joining the league.

- Dayton went unbeaten at home this season, and improved its home court winning streak to 13 straight, which is the seventh best in NCAA Division I women’s basketball.

- The Flyers defeated Fordham 68-57 on Feb. 10, 2013 to give UD Head Coach Jim Jabir his 400th career victory.  He is the 46th active coach to reach that plateau. Jabir owns a .539 career winning percentage over 26 seasons.

- The Flyers are in the Top 20 in SIX NCAA rankings:  7th in win-loss percentage (93.1), 9th in assists per game (16.9), 11th in scoring offense (75.4 ppg), 11th in scoring margin (+18.2), 18th in field goal percentage (.441), and Dayton’s RPI is 13.

- Flyers in the A-10’s Top 5: Freshman Amber Deane leads the league in field goal percentage (.559), while senior Sam MacKay leads the A-10 in assist/turnover ratio (2.0), and is second for assists per game (5.0). Sophomore Andrea Hoover leads the A-10 in three-point field goal percentage (.381). Freshman Jodie Cornelie-Sigmundova is fifth in blocked shots per game (1.7).

- Dayton was listed as tied for 6th as the least-experienced team in the nation. The players on UD’s roster average just 1.0 years of experience.

- The Flyers have four players averaging at least 10.0 ppg: sophomore Andrea Hoover (12.2 - 12th in A-10) sophomore Ally Malott (10.8), senior Sam MacKay (10.3) and freshman Amber Deane (10.1). In Dayton’s balanced system, eight of UD’s 10 active players have led UD in single-game scoring this season. 

- The 12-1 start in non-conference play was the best for the Flyers since becoming a Division I program in 1984-85 (equaling the best start in UD WBB history - the 1983-84 season when the Flyers went 12-1 to start, ended the season 27-4 and in the NCAA D-II National semifinals). As impressive as that is, it is even more so when you consider 10 of the 13 opponents UD faced in non-conference action this year, advanced to the postseason last year (3 NCAA, 6 WNIT, 1 WBI).

- The Flyers’ 15-game winning streak earlier this season (Jan. 12-March 9) was the 11th best in the nation at the time. It marked the longest winning streak for the Flyers since the 2006-07 season when UD rattled off 16 consecutive wins.

- The Flyers have only lost the battle of the boards six times this season, including three of their last four games.

- Dayton has beaten four BCS teams this season: from the Big East (DePaul), Big Ten (Michigan State), Pac 12 (Arizona State) and SEC (Vanderbilt).

- The Flyers have reached as high as No. 11 in the AP Top 25 and No. 11 in the USA Today Coaches Poll this season; both are program bests for the Flyers. UD has been ranked for 18 consecutive weeks. They are currently 18th in the AP and 15th in the Coaches poll.

- The Flyers lead the Atlantic 10 in 10 categories: scoring offense (75.4), scoring margin (+18.2), field goal percentage (.441),  field goal percentage defense (.354), 3-point field goal percentage (.343), rebounding offense (43.1), assists (16.9 per game), assist-to-turnover ratio (1.1), defensive rebounds per  game (28.8), and three-point field goals made per game (6.7).