{"id":182831,"date":"2025-08-28T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182831\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:05:10","slug":"flyers-schedule-includes-first-game-against-xavier-since-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/182831\/","title":{"rendered":"Flyers&#8217; schedule includes first game against Xavier since 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"1\">Xavier leads the series against Dayton 34-28. The teams played twice in the regular season every season when they were both in the A-10 but have not played since Xavier joined the Big East in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"2\">The game against Xavier will be the third of the season for Dayton. Xavier finished 7-24 last season, improving by six victories after a 1-27 season. It has suffered nine straight losing seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"3\">Dayton will start the season Nov. 3, the opening day of the college basketball season, at Illinois State and will play Mercyhurst in its home opener Nov. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"4\">Here\u2019s a look at the complete schedule:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"6\"><b>Nov. 3: <\/b>at Illinois State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"8\"><b>Nov. 6: <\/b>vs. Mercyhurst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"9\"><b>Nov. 11: <\/b>at Xavier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"10\"><b>Nov. 16: <\/b>vs. Belmont.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"11\"><b>Nov. 21: <\/b>vs. Canisius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"12\"><b>Nov. 28, 5 p.m.:<\/b> vs. Butler at Fort Myers Tip-Off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"15\"><b>Nov. 29, 7:30 p.m.:<\/b> vs. Kansas at Fort Myers Tip-Off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"16\"><b>Dec. 7: <\/b>vs. Long Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"17\"><b>Dec. 14: <\/b>at Purdue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"18\"><b>Dec. 18: <\/b>at Western Michigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"19\"><b>Dec. 21: <\/b>vs. Evansville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Xavier leads the series against Dayton 34-28. The teams played twice in the regular season every season when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":182832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,102845,67,132,68,84790],"class_list":{"0":"post-182831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-springboro","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-warren-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}