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Flyers will play three power conference teams
SAN JUAN — By beating Georgia Tech, Dayton is guaranteed to play three BCS teams in the Puerto Rico Tip-off Classic this week — a boon for the program.
The Flyers face fifth-ranked Villanova in about an hour in the tourney semifinals. The winner of that game will play the winner of the Mississippi-Kansas State game for the championship at 8 p.m. Sunday on ESPN2, and the semifinal losers play at 5:30 p.m. Sunday on ESPNU.
The Ole Miss-Kansas State game tips off at 8:30 p.m. today on ESPNU.
The Flyers are 7-2 against BCS teams the last three seasons and 4-0 against the Big East. Villanova is the preseason Big East favorite.
• The Flyers’ Matt Kavanaugh, who got his first action of the season against Georgia Tech on Thursday, will see a familiar face playing for Villanova.
Freshman Isaiah Armwood, who hit the game-winning 3-pointer in a 69-68 first-round victory over George Mason, played for Montrose Christian along with another ‘Nova freshman, Mouphtaou Yarou, in the local Flyin’ to the Hoop event last year.
Kavanaugh scored 30 against them in a 63-53 loss for Centerville. Armwood had 12 and Yarou 11.
The 6-10 Yarou started the first two games for Villanova, averaging 5.0 points and 4.0 rebounds, but he was sent home from the tourney Thursday because of a viral infection. Armood played four minutes against GM and made his only shot of the night a monumental one.
• The Flyers probably can’t count on the Villanova veteran guards to play as poorly as they did in the first round. Scottie Reynolds had 18 points but eight turnovers. Corey Fisher was 1-for-12 from the field.
The Wildcats won only because GM missed eight free throws in the final 1:16.
• Final score alert: Georgia Tech 70, George Mason 62.
• Correction: I reported in a story the Flyers hadn’t played a top-5 non-conference team since Duke in 2002-03. Actually, they played No. 2 North Carolina in 2006-07, losing by 30.
In conference games, they played No. 3 Saint Joseph’s in 2003-04, falling 81-67.
They haven’t beaten a top-5 team since upsetting No. 3 DePaul in 1984, but they’ve knocked off a pair of No. 6 teams this decade, beating Maryland, 77-71, in the Maui Invitational in 2000 and Pittsburgh, 80-55, at home in 2007-08.
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