DAYTON -- University of Dayton Flyers return to the State of Virginia Sunday to play VCU.  Game time is 4:30 p.m. ET.

Dayton is 8-3, and 4-2 in the Atlantic 10.  Last Sunday, UD defeated George Washington in a game played in Fairfax, Va. on the campus of George Mason University.  Jalen Crutcher led the Flyers with 23 points, backed by Ibi Watson and Mustapha Amzil, who both scored 10.  

The game will carried by WHIO Radio, televised by the CBS Sports Network and streamed on the CBS Sports App.  Streaming audio, video and stats will be available at DaytonFlyers.com.

#TRENDING 
• Moving into a more visibly primary role this year, Jalen Crutcher got the kind of attention from the media during the preseason that he is getting from opponents during the season.  He was on the Naismith, Wooden, NABC and Bob Cousy Award Watch Lists. 
• Crutcher, a four-year starter, was ranked the 12th-best player in the country by ESPN, 16th in CBSSports.com's top college basketball players.  The Athletic rated him sixth among its top 20 guards in the country.  He was also named Second Team Preseason All-America by Stadium.  
• Keep in mind that Crutcher was UD's co-MVP last season, with consensus national PoY Obi Toppin. Crutcher is the first Flyer with 1,200 points, 500 assists and 200 three-pointers.
• Crutcher lived up to his nickname of "Clutcher" in Dayton's first six wins, scoring UD's final points in the last seconds of regulation or overtime at the line. He scored five points when UD turned away a late George Washington comeback on Sunday.  He was A-10 Player of the Week.
• Ibi Watson is second on the team in scoring (15.9) and minutes (38.9), and percentage-wise, is nearly a 50-40-80 guy.  He shoots 47% FG, 44% from 3-pt. and 84% from the line.
•If a "true freshman" is a player who signed the previous year and is playing without redshirting, can you call a player who signed in November and scores 22 points in December start a "truer freshman?" We call him Mustapha Amzil, and the 22 points he scored in first college game were the most at UD in 14 years.  He then had 15 vs. GMU (with 6 reb & 4 asst).
• Amzil was A-10 Rookie of the Week exactly 50 days after he signed with UD on Nov. 16.
• "True" freshman Koby Brea also made his first appearance in the La Salle game, and then got his first start vs. GMU.  He missed the first five games of the year with a wrist injury.  
• After playing a total of 18 minutes with no points or rebounds in his first four games of the year, redshirt freshman Zimi Nwokeji has averaged 23.6 minutes, 7.6 points and 2.8 rebounds in the last five games.  His second-half dunk at GW was No. 5 on SportsCenter's Top 10 plays.
• Jordy Tshimanga pulled down 16 rebounds at Fordham, the most by a Flyer in three years.   He is averaging 10.5 rebounds in his last four contests.  Sunday was his 100th collegiate game.
• In three games as a starter, Elijah Weaver has 24 points, 19 assists and five turnovers.
• Coach Anthony Grant was the consensus national coach of the year in 2019-20.  

UP NEXT 
• UD is at Saint Louis on Tuesday, Jan. 26.  Game time has been adjusted to 8:30 p.m. ET.
• The Flyers will be home for the first time in 17 days (and only the third time in January) when they play Rhode Island on Jan. 30.  That game tips at 4 p.m. ET.