Final
Xavier escapes Dayton with win
Feb 27, 2011 - 9:17 PMVideo
Jamel McLean finished with 11 points and Mark Lyons added 10 for Xavier (22-6, 13-1 A-10), which was coming off a 100-62 drubbing of La Salle on Tuesday and has won seven in a row and 14 of 15 overall.
Chris Johnson hit 4-of-8 from three-point range and finished with a team-best 22 points with nine boards for Dayton (19-10, 7-7), which had a brief two-game winning streak halted and has dropped three of its last five. Paul Williams made 3-of-6 from beyond the arc and ended with 13 points in defeat.
Ahead by a seemingly comfortable 37-25 lead at the half, Holloway's jumper with 11:48 remaining had the Musketeers ahead 46-35 before Dayton started to chip away at the deficit and get back in the game.
Josh Benson finished off a fast break with a dunk to get Dayton within seven with 8:47 left, then his three-point play with just under five minutes to go sliced the deficit to 55-50.
Holloway answered with a pair of free throws a short time later to put the visitors up by seven, but Williams' layup and three-pointer made it a 57-55 game with 3:40 remaining.
A pair of Lyons' free throws a short time later put the Musketeers up by four before a jumper by Juwan Staten and two makes at the line by Johnson tied things at 59-all with 1:48 on the clock.
However, Holloway took over from there, draining a pair of free throws, then a triple for a 64-59 Xavier lead with only 42 seconds left and the Musketeers would not let the game get away from there
McLean's dunk nearly six minutes into the contest, gave Xavier a 18-6 lead.
Jeff Robinson then capped a 10-3 burst with a pair of free throws to up the Musketeers advantage to double-digits, 29-17, with 6:03 before the break.
A Robinson dunk with 35 seconds remaining gave Xavier a 37-25 lead heading into the locker room.
Game Notes
Despite the loss, Dayton is still 82-72 in the all-time series against Xavier, but the Musketeers have won 11 of the last 13 meetings.
- XAVIER: 66
DAYTON: 62
Final
Feb 27 3:07 PM - 122
roots - 83
roots - 69
roots - XAVIER: 37
DAYTON: 25
Halftime
Feb 27 1:49 PM - XAVIER: 0
DAYTON: 0
1st Half - 20:00
Feb 27 1:03 PM
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