Kyle Davis on Dayton Flyers: ‘We’ve been through a whole lot’

All the Flyers soon joined Davis. They celebrated a perfect Senior Night with an historic victory. UD clinched the outright Atlantic 10 championship for the first time, improving to 24-5 and 15-2 with its ninth straight victory. The winning streak matches the longest in Archie Miller’s six seasons. The Flyers also won nine in row last season.

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The championship has extra meaning for the three seniors — Davis, Scoochie Smith and Kendall Pollard — who have been with the team through the many ups and downs of the last four years. Somehow the seniors are 102-33 despite everything that has happened.

“We’ve been through a bunch of adversity from the death of Steve McElvene to Jalen Robinson and Devon Scott being dismissed from the team (in December 2014) and my freshman year starting off rocky,” Davis said. “We’ve been through a whole lot. Even Josh and Kendall going down. We just band together as brothers and tell ourselves we’re going to go out there and play our hearts out for each other. We know it’s our last year. We show it every night.”

Dayton closes the regular season at 8 p.m. Saturday at George Washington. The Flyers will play as the No. 1 seed at the A-10 tournament and will start in the quarterfinals with a noon game March 10 at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh.

“It feels great to get my last win and the back-to-back championships,” Davis said, “but we’re not finished yet. We’ve still got a lot of basketball to go.”