By Malcolm Price
2 4 2025
GAME NOTES
https://davidsonwildcats.com/documents/2025/2/3/at_Dayton.pdf
DAVIDSON WILDCATS (13-8, 3-5 A-10) vs. DAYTON FLYERS (15-7, 5-4 A-10)
SERIES HISTORY
Series Record: Dayton leads, 5-11
First Meeting: Feb. 6, 1969 | Davidson won 64-63
Last Meeting: Feb. 27, 2024 | Dayton won 80-66
Davidson Record at Home: 2-5
Davidson Record on Road: 1-6
Davidson Record at Neutral Site: 2-0
Matt McKillop‘s Record: 0-4
WILDCAT SCRATCHES
• Davidson is 3-5 in Atlantic 10 league play this, with wins over Fordham, Duquesne and Richmond.
• The ‘Cats are 10-2 on McKillop Court this year.
• Looking for their first win at Dayton since 1973, the Davidson Wildcats are also looking to snap a nine-game skid to the Flyers.
• Big man Reed Bailey leads the Atlantic 10 in scoring, and earned his first A-10 Player of the Week honor on Jan. 27, after setting another career high with 32 points at Richmond. The junior big man has 998 career points to date.
• Bailey has reached double figures in scoring in 19 games this season, including an active 8-game stretch of double-digit performances.
• Bobby Durkin currently ranks first in the Atlantic 10 in 3-point percentage (42.9%) and 3-pointers per game (3.29). Those same metrics also rank 26th and 13th nationally.
LAST TIME OUT | GEORGE MASON 64, DAVIDSON 60 | FEB. 1, 2025 | BELK ARENA
• George Mason used a lengthy second-half run and held on late to edge Davidson 64-60 in Atlantic 10 men’s basketball action Saturday afternoon inside John M. Belk Arena.
• Bobby Durkin led the ‘Cats with a game-high 17 points to go along with eight rebounds. Reed Bailey and Connor Kochera finished with 11 each for Davidson, which shot just 35.6 percent.
• In addition to shooting 55 percent after intermission, George Mason (17-5, 8-1 A-10) started the second half with a 17-5 run to push the margin to as many as 16, 50-34, with 10:32 to play. Davidson responded with consecutive 3-pointers from Joe Hurlburt and Hunter Adam, eventually cutting the deficit to 62-60 on three Durkin free throws with 9.8 seconds left.
• Brayden O’Connor then answered with a pair of freebies for the Patriots to all but put the game out of reach.
THE LAST MEETING | NO. 21 DAYTON 80, DAVIDSON 66 | FEB. 27, 2024 | UD ARENA
• Behind six players in double figures, No. 21 Dayton defeated Davidson, 80-66, last season inside UD Arena.
• Dayton, which shot 54 percent and canned 12 3-pointers, erased an early 6-0 deficit with a 28-6 run to grab control and all but put the game out of reach.
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