Marquette men’s basketball team adds Dayton to finish off 2024-25 non-conference schedule

The non-conference schedule for the Marquette men’s basketball team is set.

The Golden Eagles announced on Wednesday that they have agreed to a home-and-home series against Dayton starting next season.

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MU will play at Dayton on Dec. 14, then the teams will play at Fiserv Forum on a to-be-determined date in the 2025-26 season.

The Flyers, coached by Anthony Grant, are coming off a 25-8 season in which they lost in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. However, Dayton lost DaRon Holmes, the No. 22 pick in the NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.

Dayton made some solid pickups in the transfer portal, including former Butler and St. John’s guard Posh Alexander and Ohio State big man Zed Key.

One of MU head coach Shaka Smart’s early jobs in college basketball was at Dayton as director of basketball operations under Oliver Purnell from 2001-03. Grant and Smart are also former assistants for Billy Donovan at Florida, and Smart followed Grant as head coach at Virginia Commonwealth.

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Here is the rest of the Golden Eagles’ non-conference schedule, including three games against opponents from the Big Ten.

Nov. 4: Stony Brook

Nov. 8: George Mason (Al McGuire Center)

Nov. 11: Central Michigan

Nov. 15: at Maryland

Nov. 19: Purdue

Nov. 23: vs. Georgia (Nassau, Bahamas)

Nov. 27: Stonehill

Nov. 30: Western Carolina

Dec. 4: at Iowa State (Big East-Big 12 Battle)

Dec. 7: Wisconsin

Dec. 14: at Dayton

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Marquette to play home-and-home series with Dayton starting in 2024-25