In case your heart hasn’t already exploded from exciting games this season, the Atlantic 10-leading Dayton Flyers (23-3, 9-2 A 10) make their way to Chaifetz Arena Saturday for a 7 p.m. tipoff. For those of you who haven’t followed Billiken basketball this season, the Bills suffered a 47-46 loss at Dayton Arena a few weeks ago after a Kwamain Mitchell layup came tantalizingly close to giving SLU a win at the buzzer.

In that defensive showdown, which saw each team shoot significantly under 40 percent from the field, Mitchell was the only Billiken in double figures 15 points. SLU was able to slow down the more athletic Flyers and kept the game at a more manageable pace; however, they were unable to put points on the board when they needed them. Despite many of the positives, that first Dayton game of the season still appears as an “L” on the schedule.

So what gave Dayton the edge in the Jan. 29 meeting of these two teams? Two statistics really stood out to me when I went over the box score for the first time since the night of that game. For starters, the Billikens had a frustrating amount of turnovers (typical of this year with the high number of fresh