DAYTON -- The University of Dayton Flyers play their final road game of the season on Wednesday when they visit the Rhode Island Rams. Game time is 9 p.m. ET. UD is 27-2 overall and 16-0 in the A-10. Dayton is tied with New Mexico State for the nation's longest win streak at 18. The Flyers are the 2020 Atlantic 10 regular season champions after Friday's 82-67 win over Davidson.
Dayton is off to its best start ever at UD at 27-2, (previously 23-2) with both losses in OT to Top 20-caliber teams -- Kansas in the Maui Invitational finals and Colorado in a buzzer-beater at the Chicago Legends. UD is third in both the AP and USA Today Coaches polls.
The game will be carried by WHIO Radio televised on the CBS Sports Network and streamed at CBSSports.com. Streaming audio, video and stats will be available at DaytonFlyers.com.
THE TRANSFORMED UD ARENA
The University of Dayton has completed a three-year, $76.2 million transformation project of UD Arena in time for the Arena's 50th anniversary season. The project transformed the 50-year-old facility into a state-of-the-art venue. The upgrade, the largest construction project in University history, modernizes the Arena without losing the "soul of the bowl" – the atmosphere that has made UD Arena one of the best places to watch college basketball.
#TRENDING
• Dayton's No. 3 ranking is its highest since the Flyers were ranked third in the last four polls of the 1955-56 season. UD has been ranked in the Top 20 for 14 consecutive weeks this year.
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Obi Toppin is the only player in Division I who is averaging 19 ppg and 7 rpg, with 63% FG%.
• He is also the only player in the A-10 Top 10 in FG% (1st) and 3-pt. FG% (7th).
• Obi has been named to the Wooden Late Season and USBWA Oscar Robertson Mid-Season Watch Lists. The Athletic named Toppin its Mid-Season Player of the Year in a vote of their college basketball writers and the Sporting News selected him to be one of its First Team Mid-Season All-Americans. He is on five national player of the year watch lists.
• Toppin had his 100th career dunk during the Virginia Tech game in Maui, which was just his 20th start and 38th career game. He now has 179 in 62 games, the Dayton career record.
• The Brooklyn native was the eighth-fastest Flyer to reach 1,000 points.
• Seth Davis named
Jalen Crutcher college basketball's "Best Supporting Actor" during CBS Sports' college basketball studio coverage on Jan. 25. In Atlantic 10 Conference games, he is the only player in the top seven of the guard-oriented stat categories -- scoring (7th), assists (7th), 3-pt. FG's (5th), 3-pt % (5th), FT% (4th) and A/T ratio (1st).
• UD is first nationally in FG% (.526, 848-1612) and is fourth in assists (17.6).
• Seven different Flyers have scored in double figures this season. Six have led UD in scoring.
• Coach
Anthony Grant is among the finalists for the Wooden Coach of the Year Award.
• Dayton tied the A-10 single-game FG% record (.723, 34-47) in the Davidson win.
UP NEXT
• UD is back home for Senior Night on Saturday vs. George Washington. Game time is 7 p.m. ET.
