WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT TONIGHT’S GAME: FLYERS SWEPT DUKES LAST SEASON

■ Who: No. 7 Dayton (18-2, 7-0) at Duquesne (15-4, 5-2)

■ When: 7 p.m. Wednesday

■ Where: PPG Paints Arena

■ TV/Radio: CBS Sports Network; 1290 and 95.7 WHIO

Obi Toppin Jalen Crutcher Trey Landers Ryan Mikesell Rodney Chatman 6-9 R-So. 6-1 Jr. 6-5 Sr. 6-7 R-Sr. 6-1 R-Jr.

F 19.7 G 14.7 G 10.9 F 9.9 G 8.0

Sincere Carry 6-1 So. G Marcus Weathers 6-5 Jr. F Michael Hughes 6-8 Jr. C Maceo Austin 6-5 Fr. G Lamar Norman 6-3 So. G

■ Last game: Dayton won 87-79 at Richmond on Saturday. Duquesne lost 73-64 at Massachusetts on Saturday.

■ Series history: Dayton leads 55-24. The Flyers have won six of the last seven games. They swept Duquesne last season, winning 68-64 at UD Arena and 78-67 at the Palumbo Center in Pittsburgh.

■ Coaches: Anthony Grant is 53-31 in his third season at Dayton. Keith Dambrot is 50-33 in three seasons at Duquesne.

■ About Dayton: Dayton has a 79 percent chance of winning this game, according to KenPom.com, which predicts a 75-67 score . ... Dayton has won nine games in a row. It has not won 10 games in a row since it won 13

11.5 14.2 10.0 8.7 5.5 straight in the 2007-08 season. It has had 14 winning streaks of 10 or more games in its history. An 8-0 start in the A-10 would be Dayton’s best since it was 9-0 in 2004 . ... Toppin scored 26 and 19 points against Duquesne last season . ... Crutcher needs two points to become the 49th player in Dayton history to reach the 1,000-point milestone and the first since Darrell Davis two years ago . ... Dayton leads Rhode Island (14-5, 6-1) by a game in the A-10 standings. Richmond, Duquesne and Virginia Commonwealth are tied for third at 5-2.

■ About Duquesne: The Dukes haven’t beaten a ranked team since Feb. 27, 2014, when they upset No. 10 Saint Louis 71-64 on the road. That’s their only victory in the last 10 games against a ranked opponent. They are 4-38 all time against ranked A-10 teams. If Duquesne beats Dayton, it would the highestranked team Duquesne has beaten since 1966 when it upset No. 4 Providence . ... Duquesne is 2-2 against Dayton at PPG Paints Arena . ... The team lost Frankie Hughes, its top 3-point shooter last season, to season-ending knee surgery in October . ... Eric Williams Jr., the team’s leading scorer last season (14.0 points per game), transferred to Oregon in the spring.

■ Looking ahead: Dayton plays Fordham (7-12, 1-6) at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at UD Arena.

— David Jablonski, Staff Writer