{"id":359794,"date":"2025-12-20T05:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T05:18:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T05:18:13","slug":"mens-basketball-faces-liberty-to-end-non-con-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/359794\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Basketball Faces Liberty To End Non-Con On Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>DAYTON \u2013\u00a0The University of Dayton men&#8217;s basketball team\u00a0wraps the non-conference portion of the 2025-26 schedule by welcoming Liberty to \u00a0UD Arena, the Epicenter of College Basketball, for the first time in program history, with tip scheduled for 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s matinee will be broadcast on USA Network.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>The Flyers (9-3) drubbed Florida State, 97-69, to pick up their first win over a &#8216;Power Four&#8217; opponent this season. Liberty (7-3) cruised to a 95-57 victory over NAIA Midway College on Tuesday night to get back on the right track after a 40-point loss to NC State.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSix players finished the game in double-figure scoring for UD, with senior <a href=\"https:\/\/daytonflyers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/javon-bennett\/15440\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15440\" target=\"_blank\">Javon Bennett<\/a> (25) and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/daytonflyers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/de-shayne-montgomery\/15464\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15464\" target=\"_blank\">De&#8217;Shayne Montgomery<\/a> (20) leading the way. Dayton attempted 47 free throws in the game (making 40), marking the second time this season the Flyers got to the line 40-or-more times (41 vs. Canisius, 11\/3\/25).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UD had never shot 40 free throws in a game during the <a href=\"https:\/\/daytonflyers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/anthony-grant\/5643\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5643\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Grant<\/a> era prior to this season, and have only done so five times in the last 15 years.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; DAYTON \u2013\u00a0The University of Dayton men&#8217;s basketball team\u00a0wraps the non-conference portion of the 2025-26&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-359794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}