ST. LOUIS — It took 13 hours in the car on Wednesday, but The Daily Orange has arrived at the Scottrade Center and is ready to provide pre and postgame coverage of 10th-seeded Syracuse’s Round of 64 matchup against seventh-seeded Dayton at 12:15 p.m. on Friday.

On Thursday, Syracuse will speak with the media a little bit before noon before a 40-minute practice that is open to the public. On the ground in St. Louis is all three of The Daily Orange’s SU basketball beat writers (click to follow them on Twitter) — Sam Blum, Jesse Dougherty and Matt Schneidman — and photographer Margaret Lin.

One way to follow our coverage today is through this live blog, which will have updates, tweets, photos and links to stories as we publish them.

We also have pages for all of our NCAA Tournament 2016 coverage here, and all of Syracuse-Dayton-specific coverage here. Additionally, a running tab of our Thursday stories will appear below, again, as they are published on dailyorange.com.

• Frank Howard’s development sets him for potential NCAA Tournament impact (Matt Schneidman)
• The NCAA Tournament isn’t just crunch time for the players (Jesse Dougherty)
• Last time they played: Syracuse-Dayton game from 2014 NCAA Tournament still has lasting imprint (Sam Blum)
• On the beat video: Beat writers discuss Syracuse-Dayton storylines (Daily Orange Sports Staff)
• Photo gallery with shots of Syracuse and Dayton from Thursday (Margaret Lin)
• NCAA Tournament notebook: It’s madness even before the madness (Matt Schneidman)
• Matthew Moyer, signed to Syracuse for 2016, make the trip from Ohio to St. Louis for NCAA Tournament (Matt Schneidman)
• Jim Boeheim details reasoning behind self-imposed postseason ban, 1 year later (Jesse Dougherty)

If you have any questions or things you’d like to see, shoot us a tweet @DOSports or leave us a note in the comment section below.