Dayton Jets to make move to high school venues
January 11, 2006 - International Basketball League (IBL)
Dayton Jets News Release
"The Dayton Jets are one of the better teams in the nation for promotions and arguably one of the top four or five in the nation in terms of talent, but when a team is not in the right size venue, they historically run into trouble" says IBL Commissioner Mikal Duilio. After a lot of prodding and pushing from IBL Commissioner Mikal Duilio to put the team in high school and college gyms, Dayton Jets owner Mark McGuire has announced a change.
The first two games for the Dayton Jets upcoming 2006 season will be played at: Trotwood-Madison High School located at 4440 N. Union Road Trotwood, Ohio 45426
The Dayton Jets have received a few requests to come out to other various high schools (whereby the school or its boosters gets a cut of the tickets). The other eight home game venues will be announced by February 15th.
IBL Commissioner Mikal Duilio-"Everything is lined up for the Dayton Jets; they are in the right sized venue, they have an efficient/affordable schedule (see next page), they open up with the IBL Champion Battle Creek Knights and the very next night they play again at home against the Western Conference Champion Tacoma Thunder AND they have 9 different home opponents (see next page; this is to make up for last year)."
DAYTON JETS TO OPEN SEASON AT HOME WITH THE IBL CHAMPIONS ON A FRIDAY AND THE WEST COAST CHAMPIONS ON A SATURDAY
Date Visitor Home
Tue April 04 7:15pm Media & Sponsors vs. Dayton (Exhibition game location TBA)
Fri April 07 7:15pm Battle Creek vs. Dayton @Trotwood High School
Sat April 08 7:15pm Tacoma vs. Dayton @Trotwood High School
Fri April 14 7:15pm Dayton vs. Youngstown
Sat April 15 7:15pm Dayton vs. Columbus
Fri April 21 7:15pm Columbus vs. Dayton
Sun April 23 6:00pm Dayton vs. Cuyahoga Falls
Fri April 28 7:15pm Dayton vs. West Virginia
Fri May 05 7:15pm Dayton vs. Lake County
Sat May 06 7:15pm Dayton vs. Windy City
Fri May 12 7:15pm Macomb County vs. Dayton
Sat May 13 7:15pm Dayton vs. West Virginia
Sat May 20 7:15pm Holland vs. Dayton
Fri June 02 7:15pm Cuyahoga Falls vs. Dayton
Sat June 03 7:15pm Youngstown vs. Dayton
Fri June 09 7:15pm Columbus vs. Dayton
Sat June 10 7:15pm West Virginia vs. Dayton
Fri June 16 7:15pm Dayton vs. Grand Rapids
Sat June 17 7:15pm Dayton vs. Elkhart
Sat June 24 7:15pm Elkhart vs. Dayton
Sun June 25 6:00pm Dayton vs. Cuyahoga Falls
Two features distinguish the IBL from other professional basketball leagues:
1) Extremely low travel costs. The IBL promises a maximum of one trip requiring air travel.
2) An entertaining game. By allowing only one timeout per quarter and reducing the time between plays with an immediate inbounds, IBL games were fast and entertaining. In 2005 the IBL team scoring average was 127 points per game (and this game occurred in 2 hours).
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