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Sports editor for @xeniagazette @fairbornherald . Former @flyernewssports editor. Best man of a wedding ending up on the TV show Divorce Court.

Joined December 2009
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7 years
Thank you @univofdayton and UD Public Safety for this honor to be displayed dedicated in remembrance of my father.
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Fact: Dayton this season has defeated the current sole first-place team in both the ACC (Miami FL) and Big 12 (Kansas).
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I have no clue what Dick Vitale is saying about Dayton but it's great.
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If you missed @DickieV going crazy about @DaytonMBB , here it is.
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4 years
No matter how this season ended, this is a historic honor. It's the second time in 40 years a school gets both player and coach of the year. And both the first ever for Dayton. Amazing.
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AP Top 25
4 years
BREAKING: The pair behind @DaytonMBB 's remarkable rise have won top honors from The Associated Press: @otoppin1 is the men’s college basketball player of the year and Anthony Grant is the coach of the year. Read more from @aaronbeardap >>
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Scott Van Pelt and Rece Davis singling out Dayton right now as getting screwed over and damnit this sucks.
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Obi Toppin is Dayton's first ever first team All-American. Joins Don May (2nd, '67), Hank Finkel (3rd, '66), Bill Uhl (2nd, '56), and Monk Meineke (3rd, '52) as only Flyers to be recognized by the AP.
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Archie: "I'm not sure that a team in the nation probably captured more people's hearts than these guys did." #Dayton
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Jalen Crutcher's career ends: 2nd total assists (584) 5th assist average (4.95) 5th ast-to ratio (2.03) 2nd 4-year leader in assists 4th 3pt FG made (242) 5th 3pt FG attempt (646) First guard to avg 18ppg+ since Brian Roberts 16th all-time scoring
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ESPN's first bubble watch this morning declares 11 locks: Baylor, Dayton, Duke, Florida State, Gonzaga, Kansas, Louisville, San Diego State, Seton Hall, West Virginia.
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In Jerry Palm's CBS update, the A10 has 4 (!) in his bracket as of today. That's the same as the ACC/SEC. Dayton - 3 VCU - 7 Richmond - 7 Duquesne - 12 (First4) B10 - 9 B12 - 7 BE - 7 P12 - 5 A10 - 4 ACC - 4 SEC - 4 WCC - 3 Amer - 2
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Jordan Davis may be the most likeable transfer in the last decade leaving Dayton. Good luck to him.
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A10 sorted by average tournament seed the last six years: Dayton - 2.8 URI - 4.3 Bonnies - 4.3 VCU - 4.5 Davidson - 4.7 Richmond - 6.0 GW - 8.5 SLU - 9.0 St Joseph's - 9.0 G Mason - 9.0 Duquesne - 9.8 La Salle - 10.3 UMass - 10.7 Fordham - 12.2
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10 years
Archie: "The bottom line is this team & these seniors recreated a vision. They recreated a brand of basketball #Dayton hasn't had in 30yrs."
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Jalen Crutcher: +24 Fatts Russell: -20
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5 years
What is happening?! Dayton is within the first four out?!
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3 years
I'm angry for Jalen Crutcher he never played in the NCAA Tournament.
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For the first time since Nov. 15, 2016, Dayton has a regular season non-conference true road game win.
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6 years
Dayton went for 1.092 PPP. The only team the last two seasons to do better against Virginia was UMBC.
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2 years
I just spoke with the hero. John Macklin of West Alexandria. He volunteered for the event two days ago and is retired from the rescue services profession. “It almost felt like I was supposed to be here,” John told me. He was placed on the 17th fairway to watch incoming tee shots.
@acaseofthegolf1
Monday Q Info
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Sadly play has been halted for the time being in Springfield for a fan that seemed to have a heart attack. The true heroes, were doctors and nurses watching who did CPR on the person for a long time, used paddles and he was conscious when he left in ambulance
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4 years
It's March and Dayton is now either a 1 or 2-seed on all 103 bracket's that Bracket Matrix tracks this morning.
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Tonight at VCU was Dayton's first true road win as an AP top 5 team since Xavier in 1956.
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4 years
2020 lottery picks: 1 - Dayton 0 - Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, Gonzaga, Michigan State, Louisville, North Carolina, Arizona, Villanova, Florida, UCLA, Virginia, UConn, Indiana, Michigan, Syracuse, Xavier, Texas, Japan, China, Spain, France, Outer Mongolia...
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@Steven_Wright_
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8 years
Reportedly coming to Dayton, Ohio.
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4 years
Dayton-Kansas 8:30pm Sunday night.
@ESPNPR
ESPN PR
4 years
ESPN2 will air encore presentations of top men's & women's college basketball matchups from the 2019-20 season Sunday | 4 p.m. ET | ESPN2
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The A10 Men's Basketball final day standings graphic is live.
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Dayton has passed Gonzaga for No. 2 in the NET rankings.
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ESPN has two Obi Toppin clips in its Champ Week promo. I'm pretty sure no other school had more than one. So ... fun!
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The list is down to one. Dayton is the lone team remaining without a loss in regulation this season.
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This list is down to two. Dayton and undefeated San Diego State.
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This team misses Landers and Mikesell way more than Toppin.
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2 years
2022 Dayton: Lead 55-43 over Austin Peay, win probability 97.8% - Lost Trailed 44-29 to Kansas, WP 1.4% - Won Lead 36-21 over La Salle, WP 97.4% - Lost
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6 years
Dayton finished 20-32 (62.5%) from the inside the arc. Only the fourth team in the last three season to shoot over 60% vs UVA.
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Dayton's last home game as an AP top 3 team was March 3, 1956. It's next will be this Saturday.
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6 years
@NoLayingUp Imitation knockoff.
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2 years
On the big board at UD Arena during timeouts is @daytonwbb coverage.
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4 years
Only two weeks ago.
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5 years
YouTube TV still knows the best color scheme.
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2 years
A special pull out section celebrating @XeniaAthletics football can be found in today’s Xenia Gazette. We hope everyone enjoys a look back at their 10-0 season.
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Entering 2020, Dayton will be one of five schools without a loss in regulation. Auburn San Diego State Arkansas (1-1 OT) Duke (0-1 OT) Dayton (0-2 OT)
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FINAL: @XeniaAthletics 28, Piqua 0. Xenia dominates both sides of the ball and moves to 3-0 in the MVL.
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5 years
The inconsistency by the refs in this game. Not the sole reason Dayton is down. But my goodness.
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2 years
FINAL: @XeniaAthletics beats Stebbins 42-7 to clinch the MVL Valley Division title.
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2 years
In the D-I girls 400 meters, @bcreekathletics freshman Kayleigh Keyes is the state champion with a time of 55.27.
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5 years
Fun graphic by CBS just now. Dayton one of three teams of the committee’s original top 16 without a loss in the last two weeks.
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4 years
Wooden Award! They might as well name all college basketball awards the "Obi Toppin Award" at this point.
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Only two teams from Ohio are outside of the top half of D-I in the first NET rankings 14. Cincinnati 20. Ohio St 42. Dayton 68. Xavier 109. Ohio 119. Toledo 128. Wright St 129. Youngstown St 141. Akron 152. Kent St 180. Bowling Green 191. Cleveland St 243. Miami OH
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7 years
Lowest combined KenPom rank 1st rd: Dayton-Wichita 44 Mich-Okla St 45 Cincy-KSU/Wake 51/52 S Caro-Marq 54 Creigh-URI 54 St Mary's-VCU 66
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5 years
The defensive effort from Dayton guards today is going to win a lot of games this season.
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4 years
Going by KenPom's team AdjEff numbers, tonight's win at SLU is best team Dayton has beaten since 2016 Iowa.
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2 years
FINAL: No. 5 Fairmont 52, No. 1 @BellbrookSports 40 Firebirds play a great game to upset the top seeded Golden Eagles and advance to the district title game.
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2 years
Wright State is on the floor at UD Arena. Dec. 13, 1997 in the past.
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5 years
Welcome to the new decade, where Dayton has only ever been a top-10 KenPom team. What a time.
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FINAL: @bcreekathletics 86, Cincinnati Woodward 76. Beavercreek has three score 20+ led by Isaiah-Michael Williams with 28 points as they outlast a tough test.
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3 years
Best teams Dayton has beaten by adjEM since 2002: '22 Kansas 25.65* (N) '08 Louisville 25.41 (A) '09 West Va 24.21 (N) '14 Syracuse 21.62 (N) '14 Ohio State 21.30 (N) '03 Marquette 21.30 (H) '12 SLU 21.20 (H) '09 Marquette 21.02 (N) '10 Xavier 20.87 (H) '03 St Josephs 20.75 (Hx2)
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6 years
Dayton plays Presbyterian the same day.
@VCU_Hoops
VCU Basketball
6 years
🚨BREAKING: We have agreed to begin a home-and-home series with @GoShockersMBB this season! 🚨 🗒️: #LetsGoVCU
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A10 tourney w/2 to go: - 1 Dayton 8 Mason 9 Ford - 4 URI - 5 Bonnies 12 Mass 13 SJU - 2 VCU 7 LaS 10 David - 3 Rich - 6 GW 11 SLU 14 Duq
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5 years
Dayton's 63% from inside the arc tonight is the best performance against Rhode Island this season. And only Dayton's 9th best.
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@Steven_Wright_
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4 years
Dayton will go the final 18:29 without a turnover. A huge accomplishment for this group.
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4 years
60-12 for Ryan Mikesell. No other Dayton player has more A10 victories.
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5 years
Saint Louis vs Saint Bonaventure is the perfect title game to encapsulate this crap A10.
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6 years
Dayton ends the day as the lone remaining undefeated A10 team.
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4 years
Boeheim singled out Dayton tonight as getting screwed if everything is canceled.
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5 years
I may seek out Kyle Davis’ pro games in the future. 100% motor speed still is a joy to watch.
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8 years
Dayton will win the A10 regular season title outright for the first time ever with a victory over VCU Wednesday night on Senior Night.
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@Steven_Wright_
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6 years
Been listening to this all morning and just finished episode 7. Great series and storytelling.
@MenInBlazers
Men in Blazers
6 years
When the U.S. national team finally arrived at the '98 #WorldCup in France, their beautiful chateau starts to feel less like paradise and more like a prison. It's on episode 7 of #AmericanFiasco
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@Steven_Wright_
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2 years
An incredible walk-off win for CJ with five runs in the 9th to advance to the district finals with a 9-8 win over @BellbrookSports
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@Steven_Wright_
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5 years
I must not follow the correct, specific Dayton circles because I have no idea what this negativity talk is about.
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3 years
Honestly am sad for Archie it didn’t work out.
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10 years
This is the first time ever @DaytonMBB and @DaytonWBB have made the NCAA Tournament in the same season.
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4 years
The red jerseys for @FlyersTBT need to be the @DaytonMBB design ASAP.
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Anthony Grant 🚨🚨🚨
@DaytonMBB
Dayton Basketball
8 months
It’s a Party in Cincinnati, Ohio ✈️🏀 #GoFlyers // @DaytonMBB
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4 years
Proper Christmas Eve dinner.
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7 years
Most Dayton fans would tell you 280 characters aren't needed to inform everyone VCU lost to Fordham.
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2 years
FINAL: Little Miami 27, @XeniaAthletics 24. 2OT. The Panthers kick a 32yd field goal to upset Xenia.
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4 years
Finished: Crutcher: +26 Russell: -26
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3 years
Still dressed and ready for the upcoming 2020 championship celebration.
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With a win on senior night, Ryan Mikesell will go 60-12 against the A10 in the regular season. That has to be the best mark for any individual Dayton player ever.
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7 years
The SEC announcers sound surprised at the score. Probably since they aren't paying attention to the game.
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1 year
The Dayton roster is making its most noise during the month of March in the last nine years.
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3 months
FINAL: Fairborn 11, Wayne 10. Skyhawks score five times in the seventh, getting a 1st/3rd double steal to tie the game before Brayden Harris gets the walk-off single to advance out of the opening round of the D-I tournament. @SkyhawksSports1
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6 years
Largest previous win in Kingston for Dayton was 12. Largest at UD Arena was 27. Won by 29 today.
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5 years
My top 10 ranking of Dayton wins in the '10s (in order 1-10): 55-53 Syracuse 2014 56-55 Boise State 2015 60-59 Ohio State 2014 72-67 SLU 2014 68-67 VCU 2016 82-72 Stanford 2014 59-55 VCU 2015 90-65 Xavier 2010 68-67 Xavier 2011 84-79 Gonzaga 2014
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5 years
Thanks to ESPN+ for technical difficulties.
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4 years
I don’t watch Gameday typically. That opening was great.
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In the current 14-team A10 makeup ('15-'20), Dayton now holds a 4-win advantage over VCU for most in the league. (76-72)
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4 years
My company just told employees working remotely isn't an option until someone in the building comes down with the virus, in case you were wondering how my day was going.
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5 months
Four months and one day ago, Dayton trailed by 11 with 7 minutes left to LSU. A season altering run and comeback win leads to today's reveal.
@sullymygoodname
Sully
5 months
Been waiting 7 years to send this tweet: Good morning, your Dayton Flyers will hear their name called for the NCAA Tournament today.
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1 year
Will post on our website later. The print version of @xeniagazette state T&F blowout turned out great. New individual/team feature stories&pics not yet online. Hope everyone can get a copy @bcreekathletics @BellbrookSports @CarrollAthDept Cedarville @KnightsofLCA @YellowSSchools
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@Steven_Wright_
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6 years
Someone tell @GolfChannel and @NBCSports people want to watch golf shots. This is borderline ridiculous the ratio of commercials to live shots.
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6 years
Raise your hand if you thought Dayton could win a game this season with Cunningham making 0 FGs. Mine are down.
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10 years
#Dayton fans chanting "We are...UD." This group doesn't get down.
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Since the start of A10 play, Dayton’s adjusted defensive efficiency rating is 8th in the country in the Torvik rankings and has risen from 127th to 66th overall at KenPom.
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It’s absurd Dayton’s lead in 2pt FG% is more than 5% over second place.
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I'm a big believer in "getting over the hump" in basketball. Dayton hasn't even let VCU tie it, let alone get into position to doing so.
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3 years
Dayton was a 1-seed for the NCAA Tournament 620 days and 27 games ago.
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4 years
Dayton has 7 FG attempts in the last 10 minutes. That is yikes.
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2 years
@sullymygoodname Record without Obi: 53-38 *turns off notifications*
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5 years
mini rant Wofford as a 7 got Seton Hall Dayton as a 7 got the most underseeded team in the history in the tournament and top 10 in KenPom /rant
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Dayton at home in A10 play: URI - Trailed by 12 w/13:53 2nd half SLU - Trailed by 10 1st half VCU - Trailed by 22 w/18:04 2nd half Dukes - Trailed by 14 1st half St Joes - Trailed by 9 1st half Mason - Trailed by 6 1st half UMass - Never trailed Richmond - Trailed by 1 1st half
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