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Dayton's Josh Benson dunks over Travis Taylor. The loss to UD was one of the costly ones for Xavier.

Rotnei Clarke scored 21 points, and Butler advanced at the Atlantic 10 tournament with a 73-67 first-round victory over Dayton on Thursday.

Isaiah Armwood's putback dunk with two seconds remaining lifted the George Washington Colonials to an 81-80 overtime win over the Dayton Flyers in an Atlantic 10 contest at the Charles E. Smith Center.

Dayton has won three straight games and four of its last five while putting together its best stretch since early December.

As the coach of the 11th-ranked women's basketball team in the country and the unbeaten Atlantic 10 champions, Jim Jabir probably knew some honors would be coming his way.