DAYTON -- The University of Dayton Flyers will play their first game in the Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Championship on Friday, March 15 at 8:30 p.m. ET.  UD will play the winner that emerges from Thursday's second round game between Richmond and Saint Louis.  The Flyers earned a bye to the quarterfinals of the tournament by finishing third in the A-10 with a 13-5 record.  Four of UD's five losses in conference play were decided in the last minute, and by a total of 12 points.  Dayton is 21-10 overall this season,

The game will carried by WHIO Radio and televised on NBC Sports Network. Streaming audio, streaming video and stats will be available at DaytonFlyers.com.

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•    UD closed the regular season by winning five of its last six games.  
•    After winning just one road game a year ago, Dayton won seven this season.  In fact, the Flyers won more road games (7) in conference than home games (6) for the first time in school history.
•    Four Flyers earned All-Atlantic 10 honors earlier in the week,  Obi Toppin was named Rookie of the Year and First Team All-Atlantic 10.  He is the first Flyer named Rookie of the Year, and the first freshman named to the first team in 20 years.  Josh Cunningham and Jalen Crutcher were named to the third team.  Ryan Mikesell was Academic All-Atlantic 10. 
•    Toppin won seven A-10 weekly honors this year, the most of anyone in the A-10 this season.  He was named Rookie of the Week the last three weeks of the regular season.
•    Toppin broke the Flyer record for dunks in a season with the first of six he had on the night at UMass (four came on consecutive possessions).  Chris Wright's old record was 66, and Toppin now has 80, which is second in the nation (five behind Arkansas' Daniel Gafford).
•    Toppin is fourth in the nation in field goal percentage, behind Gonzaga's Brandon Clarke Duke's Zion Williamson and Liberty's Scottie James. Toppin is shooting .673 (189-281).  
•    Cunningham had a string of 18 consecutive field goals made (over three games) broken late in the UMass game.  That 18 ties the second-longest mark in school history (with Sean Finn).  Cunningham already owns the UD record of 22 set last year.  
•    Cunningham is ninth in FG% (.640, 151-236).   No other team has two in the top 15, and only one other (Gonzaga) has two in the top 20.  
•    Dayton is second in the NCAA (behind Gonzaga) and leads the Atlantic 10 in FG% (.505, 850-1684).  UD shot .633 (31-49) at Rhode Island.
•    Mikesell leads the team in +/- (+8.26 per game.) After scoring 20 points once in the first 70 games of his Flyer career, he has four in his last 14 games.  He is averaging 14.3 points per game over his last seven games.
•    Crutcher is the quarterback of the A-10's top-scoring offense (73.5 ppg).  Crutcher is second in the league in assists (5.7) and assist-to-turnover ratio (2.1).
•    The Flyers have found themselves behind 10 points or more and battled back to take a lead in nine games this year.  They have come back from double-digit second-half deficits to win three times (at GW, at SBU and Duquesne at home) this year.  

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•      The winner of Friday's final quarterfinal game will play in the semifinals on Saturday, March 16 at 3:30 p.m. ET.