A week after crushing Richmond 83-31, the Dayton women's basketball team was involved in another blowout, only this time they were on the wrong end of a laugher.

The Lady Flyers were held to their lowest scoring output of the season Saturday night in a 74-49 loss to archrival No. 10 Xavier. The Musketeers never relinquished the lead throughout the 40 minutes of play.

Xavier had three players score in double digits. XU junior Amber Harris led the way with a game-high 19 points. Junior Kristin Daugherty led the Flyers in scoring with 13 points on 4-of-11 shooting. Dayton head coach Jim Jabir said the Flyers just need to be more physical when they play Xavier.

"Offensively we need to be able to run our sets against a really good defense, and on defense we need to be able to impose our will on them a little bit more and make them do things we want," Jabir said. "That's what they did to us, and we didn't do it back."

The Musketeers got things going quickly with a three-point basket by Harris on Xavier's opening possession after getting the ball off a UD turnover in the opening seconds of the game. Both teams then proceeded to rely on free throws for sustaining any sort of offense as each team shot under 25 percent from the field for the first 10 minutes of the half. Sophomore De'Sarae Chambers added a 3-pointer for the Flyers with 9:11 to go in the first half to cut the score to 12-11 in favor of Xavier.

Unfortunately for the Flyers, that was as close as they would get as Xavier ended the first half on a 21-9 run.

Led by last year's Atlantic-10 Player of the Year, Ta'Shia Phillips, and freshman Katie Rutan, Xavier held a 33-20 lead at halftime. Phillips had a double-double in the first half with 11 points and 11 rebounds while Rutan hit two devastating threes within a 40 second stretch to halt any Dayton momentum before the end of the half.

"There's two minutes left in the half, and it's a five point game," Jabir said. "To hold them to 23 points at that point was really good, but we couldn't score."

The Flyers opened up the second half with two strong minutes of play. Patrice Lalor, Justine Raterman and Kristin Daugherty successfully connected on three consecutive jump shots to cut Xavier's lead to seven. After a quick timeout, the Musketeers put the game out of reach with a 16-4 run during the next seven minutes of play.

Xavier physically dominated the Flyers on both ends of the court. Dayton was out-rebounded 56-30 for the game and Xavier grabbed nearly as many offensive rebounds (17) as Dayton had defensive (21). Phillips and Harris both recorded double-doubles. Phillips ended the game with 16 points and 15 rebounds while Harris had 14 boards to go along with her 19 points.

The Flyers had their worst shooting night of the season going 16-for-61 from the field and 4-for-24 from behind the three-point arc. Daugherty explained that Xavier's size was a reason for the Flyers' poor shooting.

"A lot of our offense runs through a high ball screen," Daugherty said. "They hedged out on that which caused our guards to have some problems seeing over them because they are so big. That part of their game plan worked. And when we tried to take it inside it was a little tougher to score because they're so big, and we got a little bit flustered."

Dayton (16-5, 4-2) looks to rebound against the Charlotte 49ers Wednesday night. Charlotte is currently in second place in the A-10.

"[The Charlotte game] is extremely important," Daugherty said. "With our two losses in conference we need to come out for the rest of the A-10 season, play our best game and hopefully get a win. We definitely need to get a good seed for the A-10 tournament."