By Chris Garvin
2 27 2024
GAME NOTES
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DAYTON — The University of Dayton men’s basketball team, ranked 21st/20th in the AP and Coaches polls this week, returns to UD Arena Tuesday against Davidson. Game time is 7 p.m. ET. Dayton is 21-5 overall and third in the A-10 at 11-3. UD’s three league losses are by a total of 11 points.
The game will be carried by WHIO Radio, televised on CBS Sports Network and streamed on the CBS Sports app. Streaming audio, video and live stats are available at DaytonFlyers.com.
Dayton lost 71-67 last Wednesday at George Mason. DaRon Holmes II had a game-high 26 points and seven rebounds along with three assists and two steals.
#TRENDING
• Anthony Grant is on the Naismith National Coach of the Year the Late-Season Watch List.
• 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 (Mid-Season Top 30), the Los Angeles Athletic Club’s John R. Wooden Award (Late Season Top 20) and the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s Karl Malone Award (finalist).
• Holmes leads the A-10 in scoring (20.2) and UD in rebounding (7.9). He is the only player in the league’s top six in scoring, rebounding, FG%, and blocked shots.
• Holmes is now the Dayton career record holder for blocked shots (203) and dunks (227).
• Holmes and Zach Edey are the only players in D-I who has more than 50 blocks, 50 dunks and 50 assists. Holmes has 56, 57 and 66 respectively. Holmes also has 26 threes and is shooting .377 (26-69) from deep. He had just seven threes in his first two years at UD.
• He has been national player of the week three times (March Madness, USBWA Robertson Trophy, Lute Olson Award) and has been A-10 Player of the Week five times in conference play.
• 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 (73-150).
• As a team, Dayton is eighth in D-I in 3-pt. FG% (.3918, 239-610). The school record is .3919.
• Brea is fourth at UD in career 3-pt. FG% (.424, 197-465). 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.
• Javon Bennett leads the A-10 in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.4).
• Enoch Cheeks has scored in double figures in four of the last six games (twice in first 20).
• Dayton leads the A-10 in scoring defense (64.5 ppg.). VCU is second (65.9).
• 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
• The Flyers are at Loyola on Friday, March 1. Game time is 9 p.m. ET.
• UD will play at Saint Louis on Tuesday, March 5 before playing hosting the regular season finale on Friday, March 8.
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