By Stretch Jenkinson
2 2 2024
GAME NOTES
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DAYTON — The University of Dayton men’s basketball team, ranked 21st/19th in this week’s AP and Coaches polls, is back home Friday night when St. Bonaventure visits UD Arena. Game time is 7:00 p.m. ET. Dayton is 17-3 overall and 7-1 in the Atlantic 10.
The game will be carried by WHIO Radio, televised on ESPN2 and streamed on ESPN+. Streaming audio, video and live stats are available at DaytonFlyers.com.
Dayton knocked off George Washington 83-61 on Tuesday. DaRon Holmes II led a trio of Flyers in double figures with a 25-point, 12-rebound game. Koby Brea and Nate Santos each added 17.
#TRENDING
• Dayton was the preseason favorite in the Atlantic 10 in the annual vote of the league’s coaches and selected media. The Flyers received 20 of the 25 first-place votes cast.
• UD’s 13-game win streak that was snapped at Richmond was its longest since 20 in 2019-20.
• DaRon Holmes II was named Preseason First Team All-Atlantic 10 and to the Preseason All-Defensive Team. He was the only player on the first team and the defensive team.
• Holmes is on three prestigious preseason watch lists — Atlanta Tip-Off Club’s Naismith Award, the Los Angeles Athletic Club’s John R. Wooden Award and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s Karl Malone Award. He is on the Wooden Late-Season Top 20.
• Holmes leads the A-10 in scoring (19.4) and UD in rebounding (7.9). He is the only player in the league’s Top 10 in scoring, rebounding, FG%, 3-pt. FG% and blocked shots.
• Holmes is now the Dayton career record holder for blocked shots (191) and dunks (216).
• He is the only player in D-I who has more than 40 blocks, 40 dunks and 40 assists. Holmes has 44, 45 and 52 respectively. Holmes also has 21 threes and is shooting .396 (21-53) from deep. He had a total of seven made threes in his first two seasons at UD.
• Holmes was named the National Player of the Week by NCAA March Madness after a 33-point, 12-rebounds game at Duquesne, and has been A-10 Player of the Week three times.
• Nate Santos was named to the Charleston Classic All-Tournament Team. UD finished second in Charleston. He was also named Atlantic 10 Co-Player of the Week on Nov. 20.
• Santos needed 10 games to match what he scored in two years at Pitt (116 points in 54 G).
• Koby Brea leads the nation in 3-pt. FG% (min. 2.5/game.). Brea is shooting .487 (58-119).
• As a team, Dayton is sixth in D-I in 3-pt. FG% (.400, 195-488). The school record is .392.
• Brea is fourth at UD in career 3-pt. FG% (.419, 182-434). Negele Knight is third (.425).
• Kobe Elvis was named the A-10 Co-Player of the Week after scoring 27 points in the UC win. He was 14-for-14 from the line in that game, the third-best single-game performance at UD.
• 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.
• 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.
UP NEXT
• Dayton goes on the road for a pair of games next week. The Flyers are at Saint Joseph’s on Tuesday, Feb. 6. Game time is 8 p.m. ET. UD remains on the road Friday at VCU at 7 p.m. ET.
• The Flyers are back home on Tuesday, Feb. 13 against Duquesne.
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