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Top-Seeded Men’s Basketball Plays Fordham in A-10 Quarterfinals Friday at Noon

by | Mar 10, 2022

Infographic from DavidsonWildcats.com

 

DAVIDSON COLLEGE WILDCATS
2021-22 Regular Season Champions
Seed: First
Overall Record: 25-5 | Atlantic 10 Record: 15-3
Head Coach: Bob McKillop (Hofstra, 1972)
Career Record: 632-378 (33rd season), Record at Davidson: Same

GAME INFORMATION
Date: March 11, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.
Location: Washington, D.C.
Site: Capital One Arena (20,356)
Radio: Davidson Radio Network
TV: USA Network
Live Stats: DavidsonWildcats.com

CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT HISTORY
A-10 Tournament Record: 10-5
A-10 Regular Season Titles (Last): 2 (2021-22)
A-10 Tournament Titles (Last): 1 (2018)
All-Time Conference Tournament Record*: 74-52
SoCon Tournament Record: 65-46
SoCon Regular Season/Division Titles: 23
SoCon Tournament Titles: 12
1966, ’68, ’69, ’70, ’86, ’98, 2002, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’12, ’13
SoCon Championship Game Appearances: 19
SoCon Championship Game Record: 12-7
McKillop’s Conference Tournament Record: 42-20
Tournament Titles Under McKillop: 8
1998, 2002, ’06, ’07, ’08, ’12, ’13, ’18
*Big South Member from 1990-92

WILDCAT SCRATCHES
• Davidson, the 2021-22 Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champions, enters postseason play 25-5 overall.
• Along with setting a new program record for A-10 wins in a single-season (15), the Wildcats have clinched a double bye for the fifth time in eight years.
• For the ‘Cats, it’s their 15th Regular Season Crown (13 – SoCon / 2 A-10) under Head Coach Bob McKillop and 25th in School History.
• Davidson won the A-10 Tournament in 2018, the last time the event was held in our Nation’s Capital.
• The Wildcats knocked off then-nationally-ranked and top-seeded Rhode Island, 58-57, behind a game-high 17 points from Kellan Grady.
• McKillop has guided Davidson to 17 20-win campaigns and double-digit conference wins 26 times in his 33 years.
• Since joining the A-10 in 2014-15, the Wildcats have won two regular season titles (2015, 2022), a tournament title (2018) and totaled 91 league wins (11.3 per year), while recording an average finish of 4.0 in the 14-team conference and making the tournament semifinals each year.
• In all, Davidson has won 13 conference tournaments, including eight under McKillop.
• On Tuesday, McKillop was voted Coach of the Year by his peers, Luka Brajkovic earned Conference Player of the Year honors, while Hyunjung Lee (first team) and Foster Loyer (second team) were selected all-conference.
• Brajkovic becomes the fourth Wildcat grab the A-10’s top individual award since the 2014-15 campaign.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS
Foster Loyer (16.9), Hyunjung Lee (16.5), Luka Brajkovic (14.6) and Michael Jones (11.9) are each averaging double figures for the Wildcats.
• Loyer enters third nationally in 3-point field-goal percentage, shooting 45.0 percent (68-151).
• In addition, he leads the nation in free-throw percentage (.936 | 102-109).
• Over the last six games, Lee is averaging 20.2 points per game, while shooting 56.4 percent (44-78) from the floor and 48.8 percent (20-41) behind the 3-point line.
• Brajkovic ranks among A-10 leaders in scoring (11th), rebounding (9th), field-goal percentage (4th), 3-point field-goal percentage (6th) and blocks (12th).
• Davidson’s starting lineup is shooting 50.1 percent (669-1335) from the floor and 41.7 percent (237-568) from 3-point range.
• The Wildcats rank among the nation’s best in field-goal percentage (17th), 3-point field-goal percentage (8th) and assist/turnover ratio (16th).
• Davidson is 21-1 on the season when hitting the 70-point plateau, with its only setback coming in the regular-season finale against Dayton.

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