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DAYTON - A career-high 24 points from Jordan Sibert propelled the University of Dayton Flyers to a 75-61 victory over the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Tuesday night at UD Arena. Dayton improved to 9-2 with the victory as Georgia Tech fell to 8-3. 
 
Dayton used a strong outside shooting performance (10-of-18 from the three, 56%) while forcing Georgia Tech into just 4-of-20 (20%) from beyond the arc.
 
Dyshawn Pierre scored a season-high 19 points on 4-of-4 shooting from beyond the arc to join Sibert as the two Flyers in double-digits. Pierre also added six rebounds, three assists and three steals.
 
Kyle Davis scored nine points and dished out a career-high six assists. Darrell Davis added eight points on 2-of-2 shooting from the three.
 
A Georgia Tech jumper by Tadric Jackson with 13:43 left in the first half put the score at 13-12 with the Flyers holding the lead. Dayton proceeded to go on a 13-5 run over the next 3:37 to increase the Flyer lead to 26-17 and forced Georgia Tech to burn a timeout with 9:44 left until halftime.
 
However, Georgia Tech responded with a 6-0 run over the next two minutes to cut the lead to 26-23, but Dayton countered with an 8-2 run to push the lead back out to 34-25.
 
UD went into the locker room with a 39-33 lead after shooting a blistering 7-of-10 (70%) from the three. Sibert paced the Flyers with 15 first-half points.
 
Georgia Tech came out of the locker room on a 5-0 run after a three by Quinton Stephens with 18:41 remaining to trim the Flyer lead to 39-38. Dayton proceeded to call a time-out to regroup. The Flyers went on a 12-0 run out of that 30-second time-out to regain the momentum and push their lead out to 51-38 with 13:42 left in the game after a pair of made free throws by Pierre. The Yellow Jackets would not get any closer than 10 points the rest of game.
 
Despite being outrebounded 39-27 and giving up 15 offensive rebounds, Dayton was able to limit Georgia Tech into just six second-chance points. The Flyers also shot 21-of-46 (46%) from the field and 23-of-31 (74%) from the foul line. Dayton coughed the ball up just six times while forcing the Yellow Jackets into 14 turnovers.
 
Brian Gregory became the first former Flyer coach to return to UD Arena to play the Flyers.  Gregory coached on the Dayton sidelines for eight seasons, and he received a warm extended welcome from the crowd of 12,424. But once the game started, the Flyer Faithful got solidly behind the home team, sparking them to their 11th straight homecourt win.
 
Dayton has also now won eight straight games over ACC opponents.
 
The Flyers return to action next Tuesday Dec. 30 at 8 p.m. ET in their final non-conference tilt against the Ole Miss Rebels. The game will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network.