Updated @ 9:30pm
The University of Dayton men’s basketball team fell in the Atlantic 10 tournament finals on Sunday.
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The Dayton Flyers trailed from start to finish in a 70-62 loss to the VCU Rams at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Senior guard Javon Bennett scored 14 points for Dayton. Sophomore center Amer Letang had 12 points and three assists. Jordan DeKak scored nine points and grabbed a team-high 10 rebounds.
The Flyers fell to 23-11 overall.
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UD trailed by as many as 16 points in the second half and narrowed the deficit to single digits. But the gap never closed.
Dayton shot 43% from the field (23 points on 53 field goals). They shot just 9 of 17 from the free throw line.
Bennett and Derkak were both named to the Atlantic 10 All-American team.
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has earned an automatic bid from the Atlantic 10 to host the 2026 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
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