No. 57 St. Bonaventure (6-1), No. 58 Rhode Island (6-0), No. 69 Loyola Chicago (5-0), No. 72 Virginia Commonwealth (5-2) and No. 79 George Mason (4-3) are also in the top 100.
Dayton is the third highest-ranked team from Ohio behind No. 11 Cincinnati (6-0) and No. 13 Ohio State (5-2). Wright State (3-4) is No. 110. Miami (4-2) is No. 146.
Tennessee, Auburn, Gonzaga, Duke and Pittsburgh are the top five teams in the NET.
Dayton is 1-2 in Quadrant 1 games with a victory against No. 39 Connecticut and losses to No. 26 North Carolina and No. 19 Iowa State. Dayton is 1-0 in Quad 2 with a victory against No. 73 Northwestern. Dayton is 3-0 in Quad 3 with victories against No. 238 Saint Francis (2-6), No. 241 New Mexico State (2-4) and No. 318 Ball State (1-5).
Based on the current rankings, Dayton has two Quad 4 games this week at UD Arena: Tuesday against No. 263 Western Michigan (2-4); and Saturday against No. 302 Lehigh (1-5).
Dayton then has a Quad 1 game on Dec. 14 against No. 7 Marquette (8-0) at UD Arena. It plays a Quad 3 game against UNLV (4-3) on Dec. 17 at UD Arena and then a Quad 1 game against Cincinnati at Heritage Bank Arena in Cincinnati on Dec. 20 in its final non-conference game.
Dayton has finished higher than its initial ranking five seasons in a row. Here’s where Dayton has started in the NET and where it has finished over the years:
• Last season, Dayton ranked 42nd in the first NET ranking and finished at No. 23.
• In the 2022-23 season, Dayton ranked 163rd in the first NET ranking and finished 78th.
• In the 2021-22 season, Dayton ranked 95th in the first NET ranking and finished 52nd.
• In the 2020-21 season, Dayton was No. 111 in the first ranking and finished 90th.
• In the 2019-20 season, Dayton debuted at No. 10 and finished the season at No. 3.
• In 2018-19, the first season of the NET, Dayton ranked 47th in the first release and 69th at the end of the season.
Credit: David Jablonski
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