CHICAGO – Tickets are now on sale for the second edition of the Chicago Legends, a doubleheader that will be played at the famed United Center on Saturday, Dec. 21.

Ticket prices range from $50 to premium courtside seats for $250.  To purchase tickets click here.  For more information, please contact the Arena Ticket Office at (937) 229-4433.

Dayton will take on Colorado in a rematch of their 2018 NIT game, while Cincinnati and Iowa will square off in the other game.  Dayton is the only team returning from the original Chicago Legends doubleheader of the Flyers, Northwestern, Illinois and BYU played on Dec. 17, 2016.  Northwestern edged UD 67-64 in a battle of two teams destined to play in the 2017 NCAA tournament.

That was Dayton's first game in the Chicago area since UD defeated 15th-ranked Marquette in the finals of the 2008 Chicago Invitational Challenge that was played in Hoffman Estates, Ill.  The 2019 Chicago Legends game will only be Flyers' second game in the city of Chicago since they played Loyola in the International Amphitheater on Jan. 7, 1989.  Since then Dayton has also played games at the Rosemont Horizon and in Evanston on the campus of Northwestern University.

The University of Dayton has more than 5,000 alumni living in the Chicago area. 

Some of the top moments and performers in Dayton Basketball history have Chicago ties:
• UD defeated Tennessee and Virginia Tech in Evanston to advance to the 1967 NCAA Final Four.
• Donald Smith scored a Dayton single-game record of 52 points in the Chicago Stadium vs. Loyola on Feb. 3, 1973.
• Flyer Hall of Famers Ted Sharpenter, George Janky and Kevin Conrad were Chicago-area products.
• UD's career steal record holder Alex Robertson is from Chicago.
• Two members of the winningest class in UD history – Kyle Davis and Kendall Pollard – are from Chicago and won Illinois state high school championships.  Davis at Morgan Park and Pollard at Simeon.
• A total of 32 Chicago-area prep products have worn the Dayton red and blue in basketball.

The Flyers improved by seven wins in Anthony Grant's second season as the Dayton head coach, finishing 21-12 and reaching the NIT.  UD was third in the Atlantic 10 Conference with a 13-5 record.  Dayton was second in the nation as a team in field goal percentage (.504, 902-1789).  That was also the best single-season FG% in school history.

The Flyers return three starters and will add five veteran redshirts in 2019-20.   Included in the starters are All-Atlantic 10 performers Obi Toppin (2019 Rookie of the Year and First Team All-A-10), and junior guard Jalen Crutcher (Third Team All-A-10).  Also returning are 2018-19 co-captains Trey Landers and Ryan Mikesell.

Game times and any television coverage will be announced at a later date.