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VCU and Dayton Take Care of SLU and Fordham, Will Play for the A10 Auto-Bid

After four rounds of play, it makes sense that the two most prominent basketball programs in the A10 will battle for the right to go to the NCAA tournament as A10 Tournament Champions. The VCU Rams and the Dayton Flyers will battle for the crown on Sunday afternoon. This game has so many story lines …

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We Meet Again: Dayton Takes on Saint Joseph’s in the A10 Quarterfinal

It’s finally tournament time for the Dayton Flyers. After a disappointing season that led up with so much hype, the Flyers come into the conference tournament with what appears to be a favorable draw based on whatever metric you want to go with. After two rounds of play, Dayton’s A10 tournament final path is being …

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Can Anyone Stop The Dayton Flyers?

Dayton improved to 4-0 in Atlantic 10 play on Tuesday night with a rout of Fordham at Rose Hill Gym, 82-58. This was again another win where Dayton won by 12 or more points. The wins the Flyers have are not bad either (according to A10 standards), as they have taken down Duquesne and Davidson …

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#24 Dayton Looks Beautiful, Beats SMU, 74-62

UD Arena was rocking on Friday night. The Flyers welcomed the Southern Methodist University Mustangs for their first “big test”, if you will, of the young season. Dayton had its highs and lows, including a late comeback to tie by SMU, but Dayton was able to go on a late 15-3 run to close out …

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BREAKING: The A10 adds Bellarmine as its 16th School

The A10 has made another bold move to secure its standing as one of the premier athletic conferences in college basketball, adding Bellarmine University to be the conference’s 16th full time member, beginning in the 2022-2023 school year. “Bellarmine University is a perfect new addition to the Atlantic 10 Conference,” said A10 Commissioner Bernadette McGlade. …

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Dayton Survives a Feisty UMass Squad, Moves on to the Semis

Summary The Dayton Flyers were given all that they could handle from UMass, but they prevailed in the end, 75-72. The win puts Dayton in the semifinals for the first time since the 2016 season. UMass came out firing on all cylinders, going up by as many as 11 in the first half. Eventually, Malachi …

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Rhode Island Fires Head Coach David Cox After Four Seasons

Less that 24 hours after their collapsing loss to Richmond, the Rhode Island Rams have fired men’s head basketball coach David Cox. Cox, who was in his fourth season as head coach, led Rhode Island to a 15-16 record overall and a 5-12 record in the A10 this season, good for 11th place, which was …

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Dayton Gets UMass for a Friday Night Showdown in DC

The Flyers open up A10 Tournament play against UMass. The Dayton Flyers finally know their opponent for their Friday night game in the A10 Tournament: The UMass Minutemen. UMass destroyed a very lack-luster George Washington team on Thursday night by the score of 99-88. UMass got hot early and kept it up all the way …

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The A10 Talk Staff Predicts the 2022 A10 Tournament

Ah, prediction time. It’s one of the more pointless things that human beings do, and yet we keep doing it. We try and try to be correct, and yet we are often wrong again and again. As we do every year for the A10 tournament, each of our staff members tries to predict the A10 …

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The A10 Tournament Preview

Here we go. It’s tourney time! The Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament starts this week with all 14 teams fighting to get that coveted automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. This is the first time that the conference tournament will be back to normal after the 2020 cancellation and the 2021 social spaced out event in …

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