Where Dayton ranks in college basketball preview magazines’ A-10 predictions

Lindy’s Sports predicted Dayton will finish fifth and wrote, “Rather than a ‘Who’s Who’ of notable players, coach Anthony Grant’s roster reads more like a list of ‘Who’s He?’”

Lindy’s put one Dayton player on the preseason all-conference team. Forward Toumani Camara, a transfer from Georgia, made the A-10 third team.

Athlon Sports predicted Dayton will finish sixth and wrote, “The Flyers loom as a tough team to figure out apart from some good, young talent. How quickly all the pieces come together for head coach Anthony Grant is the great unknown.”

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Both magazines picked St. Bonaventure, Richmond, Virginia Commonwealth and Saint Louis as the top-four teams. Athlon ranked Davidson ahead of Dayton.

Lindy’s ranked St. Bonaventure 24th in the country and predicted the Bonnies and Richmond will make the NCAA tournament. Athlon also predicted both of those teams will play in the Big Dance but did not rank an A-10 team in the top 25.

St. Bonaventure guard Kyle Lofton, one of the team’s five returning starters, was the top-ranked A-10 player on Lindy’s list of the top 150 players in college basketball. He ranked 44th. Other A-10 players on the list were: Richmond guard Jacob Gilyard (55th); Saint Louis guard Javonte Perkins (71st); St. Bonaventure forward/center Osun Ossuniyi (87th); and Richmond forward Grant Golden (106th).

Here’s how the magazine predicted other area teams will finish:

Wright State: The Raiders were picked as the favorite in the Horizon League ahead of Cleveland State, Milwaukee and Northern Kentucky by both magazines.

Sophomore guard Tanner Holden was named to the preseason first team by both, and Lindy’s named sophomore forward Grant Basile to its Horizon League second team.

Ohio State: Both magazines picked the same order of the top four in the Big Ten: 1. Michigan; 2. Purdue; 3. Ohio State; 4. Illinois.

Miami: The RedHawks were picked to finish seventh by both magazines, and Buffalo, Ohio and Toledo were the top three in each.