DAYTON -- The University of Dayton men's basketball team will host the University of Illinois Chicago Tuesday evening in the 2021-22 season opener for both teams.  Tip time between the Flyers and Flames will be 7 p.m. ET.

This will be the 117th season of varsity basketball for UD, which was named St. Mary's Institute when it began paying basketball in 1903.  (The sport took a hiatus for two seasons during World War II.)

Dayton defeated Cedarville 94-60 in an exhibition game on Nov. 1.  Toumani Camara led all scorers with 20 points, followed by Kobe Elvis (13, with six assists), Mustapha Amzil (13) and Elijah Weaver (10).  

The game will carried by WHIO Radio, televised in SW Ohio on Spectrum News 1 and streamed on the ESPN+.  Streaming audio, video and stats will be available at DaytonFlyers.com.

#TRENDING 
• For the first time UD Arena history, all season and single game tickets have been sold before the season even began.  That announcement was made on Nov. 4.  All 17 regular season home games are sold out, extending an ongoing sellout streak for the Flyers to 28.
• Dayton was predicted to finish fifth in the Atlantic 10 Preseason Poll of coaches and media.  Defending champion St. Bonaventure was picked first, followed by Richmond, Saint Louis.  
• Two Flyers were named Preseason All-Atlantic 10.  Forwards Toumani Camara and Mustapha Amzil were both named to the third team.  
• Camara, a transfer from Georgia, is the first immediately-eligible transfer to earn preseason accolades in Atlantic 10 Conference history.  He saw action in 57 games in two seasons at Georgia, and started his last 48 games as a Bulldog.  Last year, Camara averaged 12.8 points and 7.7 rebounds per game in 28.4 minutes of action. 
• Amzil joined the team mid-year and exactly 50 days after he signed, he earned the first of his three Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week awards.  In 19 games (15 starts), Amzil was third on the team in scoring (9.9 points a game), rebounds (5.6), FG% (.496, 68-137) and 3-pt. FG% (.382, 26-68).  
• Koby Elvis' 13 points against Cedarville came on five-for-five shooting (and three-for-three from beyond the arc).  He also had six assists against one turnover.
• The Covid year has complicated "the clock" for college student-athletes.  With that in mind, the Flyers' 12 players who are listed as freshmen or redshirt freshmen are the second -most in NCAA Division I men's basketball.  Only Arizona (13) has more.  Next is Air Force (11) with Marquette and Vanderbilt (10 each) right behind.
• Dayton's incoming freshman class is ranked 21st-best in the nation.  DaRon Holmes II, a consensus Top 50 recruit, is the highest-rated prospect to ever come to UD.  

UP NEXT 
• The Flyers are home again on Saturday, Nov. 13, when they host UMass-Lowell at 6 p.m. ET.