Champs Celebrate As Dayton Rips Through Saints 2-0!

PITTSBURGH – The final 30 seconds of Saturday afternoon’s Atlantic 10 Semifinal showdown between Saint Louis and Dayton played all the hits that only a conference tournament game in March can deliver. Dayton’s Amael L’Etang was the hero, tipping in a ball that seemed to hang in the air in slow motion with less than a second to go in the game. The play by whom Dayton head coach Anthony Grant nicknames “Frenchie”, was enough to give the Flyers a 70-69 win over the top seeded Billikens, and send Dayton to the A-10 Championship game for the first time in three years.

Dayton player rushes onto the court from the bench to mob his teammates with time still on the clock. Staffer runs out to get him off the court Wild sequence. Dayton wins 70-69!

https://t. co/95nU7w6gHK pic. twitter.

com/g3OsU6LW1D — Mid-Major Madness (@mid_madness) March 14, 2026 The last 30 seconds were a back-and-forth fracas of uninterrupted madness. Robbie Avila was called for a five-second violation under Dayton’s basket, handing the ball to the Flyers on their own end. The Flyers were able to inbound the ball successfully, then got the ball into the hands of Javon Bennett, who looked like he had a wide-open right-handed layup driving to his right.