Dayton gets the No. 2 seed in the conference tournament and will play in the quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. They will play No. 7 St. Bonaventure or No. 10 seed St. Joseph’s. Those teams play at 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Dayton beat the Bonnies twice this season and were 1-0 against the Hawks with a victory at UD Arena.
The Dayton-La Salle game was tied at 39-39, but the Explorers took control with a 7-0 run from the 6:09 mark to the 3:44 mark in the second half. Dayton cut the deficit to two points with 2:01 to play and then again with 55 seconds left.
Both times La Salle’s Jordan Price scored to extend the Explorers’ lead back to four points.
Scoochie Smith hit a 3-pointer for Dayton at the buzzer to leave the Flyers with a two-point loss.
Jordan Sibert led Dayton with 17 points. Kendall Pollard scored 14.
Price scored 21 for La Salle.
The Flyers were out-rebounded 40-27 and committed 14 turnovers after having 16 combined in their two previous games.
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