DAYTON -- The University of Dayton men's basketball team will take on Nevada in the first round of the 2024 NCAA tournament in Salt Lake City, UT on Thursday March 21st.  Game time is 4:30 p.m. ET.  Dayton is 24-7 overall and was third in the A-10 at 14-4.  

The game will be carried by WHIO Radio, televised on TBS and streamed on NCAA.com.  Streaming live stats are available at DaytonFlyers.com.

Dayton coach Anthony Grant is one of six coaches who has his alma mater in this year's tournament. The others are Hubert Davis of North Carolina, Jamie Dixon of TCU, Andy Kennedy of UAB, Matt Painter of Purdue and Jon Scheyer of Duke.

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• Anthony Grant is on the Naismith National Coach of the Year the Late-Season Watch List, and will be recognized as an NABC Guardian of the Game at this year's Final Four.
• DaRon Holmes II was named A-10 Co-Player of the Year and A-10 Defensive Player of the Year. He was the only player on the first team and the all-defensive team.
• Holmes is on four prestigious preseason watch lists -- Atlanta Tip-Off Club's Naismith Award (1 of 10 semifinalists ), the Los Angeles Athletic Club's John R. Wooden Award (15-man ballot), the USBWA Oscar Robertson Watch List (top 40) and the Karl Malone Award (Top 5 finalist).
 • Holmes leads the A-10 in scoring (20.4) and rebounding (8.4).  He is the only player in the league's top 10 in scoring, rebounding, FG%, and blocked shots.
• Holmes is now the Dayton career record holder for blocked shots (213) and dunks (237).
• He is one of two players in D-I who has more than 65 blocks, 65 dunks and 65 assists this season.  Zach Edey is the other.  Holmes has 66, 67 and 78 respectively.   Holmes also has 30 threes and is shooting .385 (30-78) from deep.  He had just seven threes coming into the year.  
• He has already been named an All-American by The Sporting News (second team),Associated Press (second team) ESPN.com (third team) and Field of 68 (third team).
• Nate Santos is Third Team All-Atlantic 10...  He was named to the Charleston Classic All-Tournament Team.  UD finished second in Charleston, falling in the finals to Houston.
• Santos needed 10 games to match what he scored in two years at Pitt (116 points in 54 G). 
• Koby Brea is the A-10 Sixth Man of the Year for the second time in his career.  He is just the second two-time Sixth Man (James Posey of Xavier in 1997 and 1998). Brea leads the nation in 3-pt. FG% (min. 2.5/game.).  Brea is shooting .492 (91-185). 
• As a team, Dayton is third in D-I in 3-pt. FG% (.402, 295-734).  The school record is .392.
• Brea is third at UD in career 3-pt. FG% (.430, 215-500).  Norm Grevey is second (.432).
• Kobe Elvis missed his first free throw of the season, and made his next 37, breaking old the UD record held by Damon Goodwin and Darrell Davis.  He was A-10 Player of the Week twice.
• Javon Bennett leads the A-10 in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.4) by nearly a full assist (2.6).  
• Enoch Cheeks has scored in double figures in eight of the last 11 games (twice in first 20).
• Malachi Smith was injured seven minutes into the opener, and after successful surgery to repair a torn lateral meniscus in his left knee, is out for the rest of the year.

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• Thursday's winner will play the winner of Arizona vs. Long Beach State on Saturday.