Dec. 24, 2011
Duquesne Game Notes 
GAME 13 / BOWLING GREEN (6-5) at DUQUESNE (7-5)
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 • 7:00 EST
Pittsburgh, Pa. • A.J. Palumbo Center (4,406)
Radio: WPGB-FM 104.7
Ray Goss (pxp), Jarrett Durham (analyst), Greg Linnelli (producer)
Streaming Audio: www.RedZoneMedia.com
Television: None
Gametracker: www.GoDuquesne.com
Streaming Video: www.GoDuquesne.com
• Duquesne, coming off its first road win of the season - 75-64 at George Mason on Dec. 21 - returns from Christmas break to host Bowling Green on Wednesday, Dec. 28 at 7:00 p.m. ... the Falcons are coming off their first road win of the season as well - 61-53 at Florida International on Dec. 22.
• DU head coach Ron Everhart shook up the starting lineup prior to George Mason game as sophomore Jerry Jones and freshmen Kadeem Pantophlet and Mamadou Datt all made their first career starts ... they were joined by sophomore T.J. McConnell, who has started every game this season and sophomore Mike Talley, who made his first start of 2011-12 ... the Dukes jumped out to a 13-10 lead on the way to ending GMU's Patriot Center win streak at 18 games ... the 18 consecutive wins were tied for the 10th-longest home win streak in the country.
• Duquesne leads the series that dates back to Dec. 15, 1947, 16-9 ... DU is 3-0 against the Falcons under Ron Everhart and 9-2 all-time at home vs. BGSU.
• DU owns three wins over teams that made NCAA Tournament apperances last season: 81-76 vs. Akron at Valparaiso, Ind., 66-59 over Penn State at CONSOL Energy Center and 75-64 at George Mason ... in all, eight of DU's first 12 opponents made a post-season appearance last year: Arizona (L), Akron (W), Pitt (L), Penn State (W) and George Mason (W) all played in the NCAA tournament while Valparaiso (L), Tennessee Tech (W) and Western Michigan (L) all appeared in the College Insider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT).
• Two of DU's five losses have come to ranked teams: 67-59 at No. 16 (AP) Arizona and 80-69 to No. 17 (AP) Pitt at CONSOL Energy Center (neutral-site).
• DU's next game will be on Sat., Dec. 31 at 4:00 p.m. vs. Houston Baptist at Palumbo Center. It will be the regular-season non-conference finale for the Dukes. The men's game will be preceded by the DU women against Robert Morris at 1:00 p.m.
MASON LEFTOVERS: Notes from Duquesne's 75-64 win at George Mason on Dec. 21 ... B.J. Monteiro (15), Eric Evans (11) and Sean Johnson (11) had double-digit starting streaks snapped as head coach Ron Everhart started in lineup of three sophomores (T.J. McConnell, Mike Talley & Jerry Jones) and two true freshmen (Mamadou Datt & Kadeem Pantophlet) ... Datt set career highs for points (8) and rebounds (9) in a career-best 29 minutes ... Datt, who hadn't scored more than two points in a game, went 4-of-8 from the field with three dunks ... Duquesne led from the 12:56 mark of the first half on ... DU's largest lead was 15 with just under five minutes left in the first half ... Duquesne outrebounded George Mason 32-28 ... it was just the third time this season the Dukes outrebounded their opponent (DU is 3-0 in those games) ... B.J. Monteiro recorded a career-high four steals ... DU finished with 12 thefts in forcing 22 Mason turnovers ... the Dukes were a season-best 50 percent from the 3-point arc (8-of-16) ... Sean Johnson (team-high 14 points) led the way going 3-of-4 from the arc.
THE SERIES: This is the 26th meeting between Duquesne and Bowling Green ... it also concludes the second home-and-home series between the two since 2007-08 ... the Dukes swept the previous series with a 96-78 win at BGSU on Jan. 2, 2008 followed by a 76-65 Palumbo Center win on Dec. 31, 2008 ... DU took the first of two in the current series, 90-54 at Bowling Green last Nov. 22 ... B.J. Monteiro came off the bench to lead five players in double figures with a game-high 21 points and T.J. McConnell, playing in just his third college game, added 10 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists in the 36-point win ... the Dukes held the Falcons to 12 field goals in posting the largest margin of victory in a road game since 1973 ... Duquesne holds a 16-9 edge in the series that began on Dec. 15, 1947 ... in games played at Pittsburgh, the Dukes lead 9-2 ... the two teams met every year from 1951-52 through 1962-63 (15 total games) ... the two also played home-and-home series' in 1948-49, 1979-80 and 2001-02 ... the 2000-01 meeting was the first since Dec. 28, 1984 (first round of the Rochester Classic) ... DU has won three in a row in the series.
NOTONG BGSU: Bowling Green competes in the Mid-American Conference East ... Bowling Green returns eight players who started at least nine games for last year's 14-19 team ... senior forward Scott Thomas was named second team all-district by the NABC ... Thomas was the only player in the MAC to rank in the top 10 in the league in both rebounding (6.7 per game) and assists (3.5 per game) ... he also ranked third in the conference in steals and was second on the team in scoring (11.2 ppg.) ... BGSU went 2-1 in an August Canadian tour ... the Falcons split with the same A-Game Hoops team that split with Duquesne (W, 91-87 & L, 77-63) ... BGSU also defeated the same Phase 1 Elite squad that the Dukes defeated twice (80-64).
QUICK HITS: Senior B.J. Monteiro enters the BGSU game needing 31 points to become the 35th member of the Duquesne 1,000-point club ... Monteiro, who shot .376 as a freshman, .465 as a sophomore and .464 as a junior, is shooting .477 through 12 games ... Monteiro, who entered the season a .502 career free throw shooter, is 26-of-46 from the line (.565) this year ... has scored in double digits 49 times in 105 career games ... has started 72 times ... scored a season-high 24 points vs. UDC ... pulled down a season-best nine boards vs. Penn State ... has seven steals in his past two games including a career-high four at George Mason on Dec.21 ... sophomore guard T.J. McConnell has a 2.33-to-1 career assist-to-turnover ratio (212-91) ... McConnell had a streak of seven-straight 50+ percent shooting games snapped vs. Robert Morris (2-9, 6 pts.) ... leads the team in assists (6.0 apg.) and steals (3.2 spg.) ... his steals per game average ranks second nationally ... is averaging 2.93 steals per game for his career (129 in 44 games) ... has started 42 of his 44 career games played ... is shooting .503 for his career (.515 this season) ... posted the second triple-double in school history with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists vs. UDC ... the 11 assists, in addition to being a career high, were one shy of the school record ... it was the second 10+ assist game of his career ... the 15 points, which he matched vs. No. 17 (AP) Pitt, are his season high ... also threw down his first career dunk against the Firebirds ... had five steals in back-to-back games vs. Green Bay & UDC and again at Western Michigan ... has had at least two steals in 11 of 13 games ... has led the team in assists 11 times ... senior Eric Evans has played in 100 carer games with 47 starts ... he enters the BGSU game with 900 career points ... has 34 assists and 13 turnovers (2.6-to-1 ratio) this season ... has scored in double digits in 10 of 12 games ... Evans, who entered the Robert Morris game 4-of-27 from 3-point, hit 3-of-6 in scoring a season-high 16 points ... he followed that by hitting 1-of-4 from the arc in setting a new season high with 20 points vs. Penn State (9-of-11 from the line) ... is 45-of-53 from the foul line this season (.849) ... has scored in double digits 45 times and has reached the 20-point mark on three occasions ... the 20-point game vs. PSU was his first since a career-high 23 vs. Fordham on Mar. 5, 2010 (his sophomore season) ... came off the bench to score all 12 of his points in the second half of DU's 75-64 win at George Mason ... Sean Johnson saw an 11-game double digit scoring streak snapped with 4 points vs. Robert Morris ... it was the first time Johnson scored fewer than 13 points in a game this season ... is averaging 15.5 points on an efficient 10.1 field goal attempts per game ... he is 47-of-57 (.825) from the foul line ... came off the bench in 59 of 62 games as a freshman and sophomore ... has started 11 of 12 games this year ... has recorded his first two 20-point games this season: 24 vs. Akron and 25 vs. Tennessee Tech ... has hit eight free throws in a game three times in 2011-12 ... entered the season shooting .442 from the field including .290 from 3-point ... has upped those percentages to .504 & .370 this year ... sophomore Jerry Jones, who scored 25 points in 26 games last year, eclipsed that point total in DU's seventh game ... grabbed a career high seven boards (six offensive) in 19 minutes vs. Robert Morris and followed that with a career-high 14 points vs. Penn State ... it was just the second double-digit scoring game of his career (he had 10 in 15 minutes off the bench vs. Louisiana-Lafayette) ... has just six turnovers in 197 minutes ... shooting 7-of-21 (.333) from the 3-point arc ... was 3-of-18 from the arc last season ... junior Andre Marhold has started 10 times after coming off the bench in 38 games as a freshman and junior ... scored a career-high 17 points vs. Green Bay ... has posted double-digit rebounds vs. Tennessee Tech (career-high 11) and Robert Morris (10) ... just under half of his rebounds have come on the offensive end ... shooting .529 from the field and .444 from the foul line ... leads the team with 16 blocks ... 35 of sophomore Mike Talley's 92 points have come from the foul line (35-of-48) ... a .389 3-point shooter as a freshman, Talley is shooting .243 from the arc (9-of-37) ... he is at .338 from the field ... scored a season-high 16 at Western Michigan ... had 14 vs. UDC and 12 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette ... DU was 12-0 all time when Talley scores 10 or more prior to the loss at WMU ... 14 of freshman Kadeem Pantophlet's 33 points came in the Valparaiso game (5-of-5 from the field with four 3-pointers) ... scored 8 and added 4 rebounds in 16 minutes at Western Michigan ... had five points in 15 minutes in his first career start, at George Mason ... freshman Mamadou Datt had his best game as a Duke with eight points and nine points in 29 minutes to help DU to a 75-64 win at George Mason ... went 4-of-8 with three dunks vs. the Patriots ... had not scored more than two points in his 11 previous games ... grabbed 10 of his 26 total rebounds in DU's first two games (five each vs. Arizona and Green Bay) ... attempted just 12 field goals in 11 games prior to his breakout at George Mason
