SALT LAKE CITY -- The University of Dayton men's basketball team advanced to the second round of the 2024 NCAA tournament where the Flyers will meet Arizona in Salt Lake City, Utah on Saturday, March 23. Game time is 12:45 p.m. ET. Dayton advanced by coming from 17 down with 7:39 to go to edge Nevada 63-60 on Thursday. It was UD's first double-digit, second-half comeback since erasing a 12-point Kansas second-half lead at the 2021 ESPN Events Invitational to beat the Jayhawks 74-73 in the tournament semifinals.

Saturday's game will be carried by WHIO Radio, televised on CBS 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 the tournament.

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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 (20.3) 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 (214) and dunks (240).
• He is one of two players in D-I who has more than 66 blocks, 68 dunks and 66 assists this season.  Zach Edey is the other.  Holmes has 66, 67 and 78 respectively.   Holmes also has 30 threes and is shooting .380 (30-79) from deep.  He had just seven threes coming into the year.  
• He has been named to five All-America teams so far this season. 
• 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 .497 (96-193). 
• As a team, Dayton is third in D-I in 3-pt. FG% (.402, 303-753).  The school record is .392.
• Brea is second at UD in career 3-pt. FG% (.433, 220-508).  Brian Roberts is first (.441).
• 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 12 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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• Saturday's winner will advance to the West Regional semifinals in Los Angeles on March 28.