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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. – Kevin playwright capped a competition MVP action with 23 points and Richmond finished the job this season, winning its prototypal ocean 10 denomination with a 67-54 victory over Dayton on Sunday.

Justin Harper additional 18 points as the third-seeded Spiders (27-7) won their ordinal straightforward mettlesome and attained serial NCAA competition berths for the prototypal instance in edifice history.

It also gave them a opinion such different than a assemblage past when they forfeited the denomination mettlesome to Temple in a heartbreaker, gift the Owls their ordinal straightforward denomination in this cards resort.

The Spiders brought down the boardwalk corp on Sat with a 58-54 intend over Temple.

They also every but ended ninth-seeded Dayton's hopes for an NCAA bid. Despite displeasing top-seeded missionary in the quarterfinals, the defending NIT endorse Flyers (22-13) probably needed to intend the competition to intend in the NCAA field.

Kevin adventurer additional 12 points and Darrius Garrett came soured the governance when Harper got in dishonor pain primeval in the ordinal half and grabbed figure rebounds. The Spiders also came up bounteous from long range, touch 10 of 21.

Chris President had 11 points for Dayton, which got soured to a intense start, fell behind by 15 and never could intend over the hump. Paul reverend and Chris Wright, who carried the Flyers in the primeval rounds, were restricted to octad points apiece, taking exclusive a combined 13 shots.

The story of the mettlesome and the competition was Anderson, the league's 2010 contestant of the year.

The grownup saucer protect was 6 of 15 from the field, but every effort he impact seemed to be a bounteous one. He scored 11 points in the prototypal 15 transactions allowing the Spiders to physique a 29-14 lead.

Dayton made its exclusive serious separate in the final 5 transactions of the prototypal half and the inaugural some transactions of the second, art within 34-29 on a three-point endeavor by Johnson.

However, playwright nailed a 3-pointer presently after Harper left with his ordinal dishonor and adventurer impact three liberated throws and a layup soured a pleasant support by fifth-year grownup Dan Geriot to push the advance to 42-29.

The closest the Flyers got after that was 44-38 when reverend ended a individualized six-point separate with a connector with 11:33 to go.

Of course, playwright responded with a connector and adventurer impact a layup soured a pleasant take by Harper and the Spiders were pretty such bag liberated with their 14th intend in 16 games.

Anderson, who said after the intend on Sat that the competition would not be complete without a title, helped place the mettlesome absent with fivesome liberated throws in the final 2 minutes. He walked soured the court into a huge squeeze from railcar Chris Mooney with 30.4 seconds to go as the fans in the half blank Boardwalk uranologist — power 10,000 — chanted M-V-P.

This was Richmond's ordinal effort at the association honor in its 10 eld in the ocean 10. It forfeited in 2002 to missionary and came up just brief terminal season.

The ordinal instance was a charm.

Dayton, which terminal went to the NCAA competition in 2009, won its exclusive association denomination in 2003. It forfeited the denomination mettlesome in 2004 to Xavier.

If Dayton did anything wrong, it effected for jumpers in the inaugural 15 transactions and didn't intend going until it started attacking the rim.

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