UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom continues to upgrade the non-conference schedule, announcing on Wednesday that he’ll be taking his team to Charlotte for a nonconference game with Dayton, of the A-10, on Saturday, Dec. 6.
Dayton finished 23-11 in the 2024-2025 season, missing out on an NCAA Tournament bid, but getting to the second round of the NIT.
“We are looking forward to another highly competitive nonconference game against Dayton,” Odom said in a statement in a press release from UVA Athletics. “Virginia and Dayton have rich basketball traditions, and this will certainly be an exciting game for our fans in the Queen City.”
The Friars have posted 20+ wins in each of the past six full (i.e., non-COVID) seasons, with one NCAA Tournament appearance, and another that would have not only been a certainty, in 2020, when Dayton finished 29-2, but likely, they would have been a 1 or at worst 2 seed that year, if not for the pandemic shutdown.
The Dayton game adds to a competitive nonconference slate that includes Northwestern and Butler at the Greenbrier Tip-Off in November, at Texas in the ACC/SEC Challenge and a home game with Maryland in December, and a Valentine’s Day trip to Nashville to play Ohio State.
The schedule also includes a pair of preseason games – at Vanderbilt on Oct. 16, and at home against Villanova on Oct. 24.
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