Toppin wins A-10 weekly award for fourth time

Toppin is an overwhelming favorite to win the conference’s player of the year award, which will be announced next week. No Dayton player has ever won that honor.

Toppin averaged 21.0 points and 9.5 rebounds in two games last week, while shooting 69.6 percent from the field (16 of 23) and 50 percent (3 of 6) from 3-point range. He’s the only player in Division I averaging at least 19.0 points and 7.0 rebounds while shooting 60 percent from the floor.

Dayton extended its winning streak to 18 games, the second longest in one season in school history, last week with two victories.

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Toppin had 19 points as Dayton beat George Mason 62-55 on the road Tuesday. He scored 23 on Friday as Dayton beat Davidson 82-67 at UD Arena. The Flyers clinched a share of the Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season championship with the first victory and clinched the outright title, the second in school history, with the second.

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On Friday, Toppin surpassed Chris Wright's Dayton career record for dunks. Toppin now has 179 dunks in 62 games and needs four to reach 100 this season.