At 6-foot-6, 247 pounds, Charles Little might be one of the most inaccurately named players in the country.

Little brings a powerful physical package to the floor and with the best measured vertical leap on the team, well off the floor too. In fact, Little's 43-inch vertical makes him President of UD's "Flight Club," which is made up of players with verticals of 40 inches or more. One of Little's strengths is his ability to slash to the bucket and take opposing big men off the dribble.

Another positive to Little's game is his ability to perform against conference opponents. In his last 33 games against Atlantic 10 competition, Little averages 10.6 points and 5.3 rebounds while shooting 147-of-282, (.525) from the floor. In his junior year against the A-10, Little averages 9.3 points and 4.6 rebounds per game while shooting .527 from the field.

As the lone senior on the team, Little will also be counted upon for veteran leadership and savvy. Through three seasons at UD, Little already ranks among the Top 75 All-Time scorers. After wearing No. 3 as a freshman, he switched to No. 15 (his high school number) in 2006-07 with the graduation of Logan White.

2007-08
Despite missing two weeks with a fracture in one of the sesamoid bones in his right foot, and being hampered as the injury fully healed the rest of the season, Little finished the year fourth on the team in scoring, averaging 8.0 points per game and was third in rebounding at 4.6 per game in 31 contests. He started out A-10 action by averaging 12.7 points and 5.0 rebounds against Rhode Island, Saint Louis and UMass, and was able to come back after missing just three games. But after the injury, his numbers fell to 7.7 and 4.3. He hauled in a season-high 13 rebounds to go with seven points off the bench against East Tennessee State. Little knocked down 9-of-12 shots from the floor en route to 20 points in a home win over Toledo and then dished out a career-high five assists over High Point. He wrapped up non-conference play by scoring 12 points on 5-of-7 shooting versus Loyola, eight points thanks to 4-of-4 shooting from the free throw line versus No. 6 Pittsburgh and led UD against Akron with eight rebounds to go with four points and three assists. In conference play he chipped in with nine points and six rebounds over No. 22/20 Rhode Island, tallied 16 points on 7-of-11 shooting from the field with four rebounds and two assists at Saint Louis and added 13 points and five rebounds off the bench against UMass. Little tallied a game-high 16 points on 6-of-7 and 4-of-5 at the free throw line versus Charlotte and totaled a double-double with 12 points and 11 rebounds at George Washington. He wrapped up the season by tallying 10 points and seven rebounds at Ohio State in the NIT Quarterfinals.

2006-07
Little was named the 2006-2007 A-10 Sixth Man of the Year. Little, who led Dayton in rebounding (5.2) and field goal percentage (.519, 137-264) was second in scoring (10.5). After being moved to the starting lineup in the latter half of the year due to injuries, Little averaged 16.9 points and 8.6 rebounds and had the first two double-doubles of his career. In the last seven games of the year, he scored career-highs in three straight games, had two double-doubles and just missed a third by one point. As UD's top rebounder, Little took home the "Shorty" Sharpenter Memorial Rebounding Trophy. He closed the regular season with three double-digit rebounding performances in the last five games, including a career-high 16 at Temple. Little's 34 dunks (32 over in the last 23 games of the 2006-07 season) were more than twice as many as anyone else on the team, and more than half of UD's 55 dunks.

2005-06
Little began the 2005-06 year with a hamstring injury, but once it healed he showed why he was one of the 2005 finalists for Mr. Basketball in the state of Tennessee. After averaging just 7.9 minutes, 2.7 points and 1.7 rebounds a game in non-conference action, Little all but doubled his production in league play, picking it up to the tune of 18.1 minutes, 6.3 points and 3.1 rebounds in A-10 action. Because of this, he was named the recipient of UD's Chris Daniels Memorial Most Improved Player Award and the winner of the Thomas M. Luppe Award, which is presented each year to the top freshman on the team.

High School
Little came to UD after a spectacular career at Cleveland High School in Cleveland, Tennessee. Little led his team to the Tennessee AAA state quarterfinals and was a finalist for the TSSAA's Mr. Basketball Award (Arizona signee J.P. Prince won the award). A three-time all-state selection, Little averaged 20.6 points and 10.3 rebounds while leading Cleveland to a 26-10 overall record. Included in that season was a school-record 49-point, 26-rebound performance over Red Bank in the regional semifinals.

As a junior, Little averaged 21.2 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.0 blocks, 3.1 assists and 2.2 steals. As a sophomore, he averaged 18.1 points and 9.2 rebounds, leading his team to a 28-5 record and a ranking as high as third in the state of Tennessee. Little turned heads during the summer of 2004 when he was named to the senior all-star squad at the ABCD Camp in Teaneck, New Jersey, but the UD Flyers knew about him long before that. Little's high school coach, Aaron Green, played at the University of Tennessee when Dayton assistant coach Billy Schmidt was on the staff.

Personal Data
Son of Phyllis Little
Birthday - July 22, 1987
Major - General Studies
Little has three older sisters - Mia (31), Summer (29) and Ashley (25)
High School Coach - Aaron Green
AAU Team - Atlanta Celtics

Career Statistics

Dayton Career Highs
Points: 28, Xavier (2/24/07)
Rebounds: 16, at Temple (2/28/07)
Assists: 5, High Point (12/5/07)
Steals: 3, Grambling (12/9/06); at Rhode Island (1/7/07)
FGs Made: 11, at Saint Louis (2/21/07)
Blocks: 2, Five times
FT Made: 8, Xavier (2/24/07)
Minutes: 37, Saint Louis (3/3/07)

Flyer 15's...
John Horan (1952-55), Jack McCarthy (1955-58), Don Heller (1958-60), Bill Chmielewski (1961-62), Henry Finkel (1963-66), John Rohm (1966-67), Tom Crosswhite (1968-71), David Morris (1998-02), Logan White (2002-06)