Jan. 25, 2009
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BRONX, NY - Bill Clark led five players in double figures with 22 points and Aaron Jackson added his third double-double of the season with 10 points and a career high-tying 11 rebounds as Duquesne snapped a two-game losing streak with an 89-68 win at Fordham.
The 21-point margin of victory was the largest ever by a Duquesne team in an Atlantic 10 road game.
The win upped Duquesne's record to 13-6 overall and 4-2 in the Atlantic 10. The loss was the eighth in a row for Fordham which fell to 2-15 overall and 0-5 in the A-10.
Melquan Bolding had 19 points, Jason Duty scored 18 and Eric Evans had 13 for the Dukes. Jackson, who had zero points and two rebounds at the half, made a run at a triple-double with seven assists.
Duty and Clark went a combined 8-of-13 from the 3-point arc with four 3-pointers each.
Duquesne held Fordham to 2-of-23 shooting from the 3-point arc and 39.3 percent for the game, while shooting 50.8 percent from the field. The Dukes outrebounded the Rams 46-34.
"I'm excited about the way we got out and defended their 3-point shooters," said head coach Ron Everhart. "We also did an excellent job of sharing the ball. Coming in here and scoring 89 points is a very difficult thing to do."
Clark went 4-of-4 from the 3-point arc in scoring 16 points as Duquesne raced out to a 43-27 halftime lead. Fordham briefly cut the lead to 15 early in the second half, as the Dukes maintained a 20-point margin for the majority of the second 20 minutes.
Duty, who was coming off a career-high 20 points in Wednesday's overtime loss as Saint Joseph's, went 6-of-10 from the field and 4-of-7 from the 3-point arc.
"Jason Duty is playing as well as any guard, anywhere, right now," said Everhart. "If someone would have told me before the game that we'd win with Aaron [Jackson] and Damian [Saunders] scoring 14 points, I wouldn't have believed them. Melquan, Jason and Eric gave us great efforts and Billy Clark really stepped up by hitting some big shots early."
Saunders, who finished with a season-low four points, contributed nine rebounds and three steals.
Duquesne returns home to face St. Bonaventure on Saturday, Jan. 31 at 7:00 p.m.
NOTES
• Duquesne's six road wins (6-3) are the most by a Dukes' team since 1985-86 (6-8).
• The victory clinched a winning month of January for the Dukes for the second straight season. The last time DU had two or more consecutive winning records in the month of January was from 1978-79 through 1980-81. DU takes a 4-2 January record into Saturday's (Jan. 31) game vs. St. Bonaventure.
• The Dukes have scored a total of 285 points (95.0 ppg.) in three Atlantic 10 road games.
• This was the eighth time the Dukes shot .500 or better from the field this season. The Dukes are 8-0 in those games
