Jan. 30, 2012

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GAME 22 / DUQUESNE (12-9, 3-4) at DAYTON (14-7, 4-3)
Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012 • 7:00 ET
Dayton, Ohio • UD Arena (13,266)
Radio: WPGB-FM 104.7
Ray Goss (`58) (pxp), Jarrett Durham (`71) (analyst), Greg Linnelli (`03) (producer)
Streaming Audio: www.RedZoneMedia.com
Television: WHIO-TV (Dayton viewing area)
Mike Hartsock (pxp), Derrick Dukes (analyst)
Streaming Video: www.DaytonFlyers.com
Gametracker: www.DaytonFlyers.com

• Duquesne (12-9, 3-4), coming off back-to-back losses at Saint Louis and at home to La Salle, heads West to face a Dayton (14-7, 4-3) team that is in the midst of a two-game losing streak of its own, on Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. (game will be televised in the UD viewing area by WHIO-TV) ... neither DU or UD has lost three in a row this season.

• Six of DU's first seven conference games have been against RPI Top 100 schools (Rhode Island is the only A-10 opponent that was not in the Top 100) ... Dayton is the seventh.

• The Dukes came back from seven points down with 2:11 left to tie it on a Jerry Jones put back with 1:23 to go only to see La Salle's Ramon Galloway convert a three-point play on La Salle's next possession in the 71-68 loss to La Salle ... Jones had a potential game-tying 3-point attempt blocked with two seconds left ... T.J. McConnell and Sean Johnson led DU with 19 and 16 points respectively.

• Dayton leads the series 44-21, including a 26-5 record in games at UD ... DU has won once and lost in overtime in two of its three trips to UD Arena under sixth-year DU head coach Ron Everhart ... Everhart is 5-4 against the Flyers ... Dayton, which is 10-3 at home, is coming off an 86-81 home loss to Rhode Island (4-18, 1-6).

• Duquesne is 2-5 on the road including a 1-2 mark in A-10 games away from home (78-71 win at Rhode Island) ... earlier this season, DU ended George Mason's 18-game home win streak with a 75-64 win in Fairfax, Va.

• The Dukes, who led the nation is assists (17.8), steals (9.9) and turnover margin (+6.7) last year are averaging 16.0 assists and 8.2 steals ... DU began the week ranked third in NCAA Division I in turnover margin (+5.8) behind Syracuse and Ohio State.

• DU, which has started eight lineups in the past 13 games, has had its roster intact for two conference games (with an asterisk at Rhode Island & vs. La Salle) ... the URI game was B.J. Monteiro's first after having 25 stitches removed from his left hand (Monteiro played for the first time without the hand heavily taped on Saturday vs. La Salle) ... Andre Marhold suffered a head injury during the URI game and missed games vs. UMass and at Saint Louis before making his return against La Salle.

• Ten players have started at least once and nine are averaging double-digit minutes ... T.J. McConnell is the only player to start every game this season.

• McConnell leads the A-10 in steals (2.9 spg.) and 3-point pct. (.500), is tied for second in assist/turnover ratio (2.0-to-1) and ranks third in assists (5.8 apg.) ... his 2.9 steals per game average began the week ranked second nationally ... McConnell is one of nine D-1 players with a triple-double this season (15-10-11a vs. University of the District of Columbia on Nov. 18) ... it was the second triple-double in school history (Shawn James went 17-11-10b vs. Saint Joe's on Feb. 6, 2008) ... he has come close on two other occasions this season with 13 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists vs. St. Bonaventure and 16 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists at Rhode Island.

• DU returns home to face Richmond on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. The Richmond game, which will be nationally televised by ESPNU, is the third annual Chuck Cooper Classic presented by PNC. The Classic honors the legacy of alumnus Chuck Cooper, the first African-American drafted by an NBA team The Dukes will be wearing red throwback jerseys modeled after those worn by Cooper and his teammates in the late 1940s and 1950s. In addition, fans will receive a commemorative Chuck Cooper T-shirt compliments of UPMC Health Plan, UPMC Sports Medicine and Trib Total Media. Fewer than 700 tickets remained as of Monday morning.

THE SERIES: Dayton leads the overall series 44-21 including a 22-7 lead in Atlantic 10 regular season games and a 26-5 advantage in games played at Dayton ... DU is 2-4 in its past six games at University of Dayton Arena (including a 78-72 OT loss in 2010 and 64-63 defeat last year) ... Dayton had won 18 of 19 meetings before Duquesne's 93-89 win at Pittsburgh in 2007 - current head coach Ron Everhart's first game vs. the Flyers ... Duquesne made it back-to-back wins over UD for just the third time in the then 61-game series with a 63-61 win at UD Arena four years ago ... Dayton returned the favor with a regular-season sweep in 2009, however the Dukes gained a measure of revenge with a 77-66 win over the third-seeded Flyers in the semifinal of the 2009 Atlantic 10 Championship at Atlantic City, N.J. ... the two have split home wins in each of the past two seasons ... DU took the first last year by an 82-64 score at CONSOL Energy Center ... the 18-point margin of victory was DU's largest in the series since a 91-67 home win (+24) on Jan. 19, 1976 ... UD won the return match at Dayton, 64-63, 20 days later ... sixth-year DU head coach Ron Everhart is 5-4 versus the Flyers.

FLYERS THIS YEAR: Dayton (14-7, 4-3), picked to finish sixth in the preseason poll of Atlantic 10 coaches and media, is 10-3 at home with noteworthy wins over Alabama, Mississippi, Saint Louis and Xavier ... first-year Southern Illinois transfer junior Kevin Dillard 12.5, 130 assists, 35 steals) has led the way for the Flyers ... Dillard, Mr. Illinois Basketball in 2008, was named MVP of the 2011 Old Spice Classic after averaging 15.3 ppg. in UD wins over Wake Forest, Fairfield and Minnesota ... 6-6 senior forward Chris Johnson (10.9), a preseason second team All-A-10 pick, is closing in on the 1,300 career point mark ... 6-9, 250-pound junior F/C Matt Kavanaugh has thrived under first-year head coach Archie Miller ... Kavanaugh, who averaged 1.9 ppg. in 32 games last year, brings a 9.1 ppg. average into Wednesday's game ... UD is coming off an 86-81 home loss to Rhode Island on Saturday.

LA SALLE LEFTOVERS: Notes from Duquesne's 71-68 loss to La Salle at the Palumbo Center on Saturday ... the defeat ended a three-game DU series win streak ... the Dukes, who led by nine in the second half, rallied from a seven-point deficit with 2:26 left to tie it on a Jerry Jones put back just over a minute later ... Jones had a 3-point attempt blocked with two seconds left ... there were three ties and six lead changes in the second half ... T.J. McConnell and Sean Johnson led DU with 19 and 16 points respectively ... the two (3-of-4 apiece) went 6-of-8 from the arc ... the rest of the team combined to go 1-of-13 ... La Salle shot 54.8 percent in the second half and 51.9 percent for the game ... DU finished at 41.4 percent ... B.J. Monteiro handed out a career-high six assists ... it was the first time DU started a lineup of Monteiro, Andre Marhold, Johnson, Eric Evans and McConnell - a group that has started a season-high 11 tiems - since at Western Michigan on Dec. 17 ... second-leading rebounder Andre Marhold made his return after missing the two previous games with a head injury.


NOTING THE DUKES

0 • Andre Marhold
Junior Andre Marhold has started 13 times after coming off the bench in 38 games as a freshman and sophomore ... scored a career-high 17 points vs. Green Bay ... posted double-digit rebounds vs. Tennessee Tech (career-high 11) and Robert Morris (10) ... just under half of his rebounds (40-of-84) have come on the offensive end ... shooting .512 from the field and .423 from the foul line ... leads the team with 14 dunks and 30 blocks, including a career-high four rejections vs. both Houston Baptist and at Xavier ... had two of his three blocks vs. St. Bonaventure in a span of 25 seconds to fuel a big 13-0 second half run ... suffered a head injury at Rhode Island which forced him to miss games vs. UMass and at Saint Louis ... made his return with a start vs. La Salle on Jan. 28 (four points and four boards in 22 minutes) ... averaged 7.0 rebounds in 27.0 minutes in the three games prior to being injured ... the injury ended his streak of 20 consecutive games played - including the first 18 games in 2011-12.

1 • Mike Talley
Over 38 percent of sophomore Mike Talley's points have come from the foul line (58 of 150 total points) ... a .389 3-point shooter as a freshman, Talley is shooting .237 from the arc (14-of-59) ... he is at .322 from the field ... has scored in double digits four times with a season-high 16 at Western Michigan ... had 14 vs. UDC, 12 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette ... scored 11 of his 13 points in the win at Rhode Isand in 13 second-half minutes ... DU is 13-1 all time when Talley scores 10 or more ... turned in an outstanding defensive performance in helping limit UMass guard Chaz Williams to 8 points, 4 assists and 7 turnovers in an 80-69 Dukes win on Jan. 18 ... is 4-of-19 from the 3-point arc and .275 from the field in conference play.

2 • P.J. Torres
Freshman P.J. Torres has seen action in five games ... hit a 3-pointer in his first career field goal attempt at Valparaiso ... also scored three points in three minutes late in the loss at Xavier ... did not make the trip to Saint Louis (Jan. 21) due to a stomach virus.

3 • Eric Evans
Senior Eric Evans has played in 109 career games with 55 starts ... he enters the Dayton game with 962 career points and 287 assists ... has 57 assists and 24 turnovers (2.4-to-1 ratio) this season ... has had two or fewer turnovers in all but one game this season ... has scored in double digits in 13 of 21 games ... Evans, who entered the Robert Morris game 4-of-27 from 3-point, hit 3-of-6 in scoring 16 points ... he followed that by setting a new season high with 20 points vs. Penn State (9-of-11 from the line) ... is 62-of-80 from the foul line (.775) ... has scored in double digits 48 times and has reached the 20-point mark on three occasions for his career ... 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 ... ended a six-game 0-of-10 streak from the 3-point arc with a pair of "3s" at Saint Louis (2-of-4 from the arc, 12 points) ... it was his second game this season with multiple 3-pointers.

4 • Danny Herrera
Freshman Danny Herrera, who had two points in two games, scored 8 points in 6 minutes vs. HBU ... he went 2-of-2 from the 3-point arc ... has played in six games.

5 • Jerry Jones
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 then 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) ... topped that with 19 points (on 8-of-9 shooting) in 21 minutes off the bench vs. Houston Baptist ... has just 14 turnovers in 20 games ... shooting 16-of-48 (.333) from the 3-point arc ... hit three "3's" vs. both Louisiana and Houston Baptist ... was 3-of-18 from the arc last season ... had eight points, six rebounds and two steals in a career high 31 minutes vs. UMass ... is 16-of-21 from the foul line (.762) ... was 0-of-4 from the stripe as a freshman ... shooting .500 ... has started seven of the past nine games.

20 • T.J. McConnell
Sophomore guard T.J. McConnell, who has a 2.24-to-1 career assist-to-turnover ratio (262-117), leads the team in assists (5.8 apg.) and steals (2.9 spg.) ... his steals per game average ranks tied for second nationally ... his current assists/g. average in on pace to challenge the DU single-season record ... is averaging 2.87 steals per game for his career (152 in 53 games) ... has started 51 of his 53 career games played ... is shooting .510 for his career (.527 this season) ... began the week as one of nine D-I players to post a triple-double this season ... posted the second triple-double in school history with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists vs. the University of the District of Columbia on Nov. 18 ... had near misses against St. Bonaventure (13-7-8a) and at Rhode Island (16-8-8a) ... the 11 assists vs. UDC, in addition to being a career high, were one shy of the school record ... it was the second 10+ assist game of his career ... also threw down his first career dunk against UDC ... posted his 100th assist of 2011-12 in game 16 vs. St. Bonaventure (13 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists & 4 steals) ... is one of nine players in school history with multiple 100-assist seasons (he had 140 in 32 games as a freshman) ... his 121 assists are tied for third-most by a DU sophomore ... matched the 15 points vs. UDC with 15 more against No. 17 (AP) Pitt... tied his career high with 20 points (7-of-11) against Bowling Green ... hit a then career-high four 3-pointers (4-of-7) against the Falcons ... topped that with 28 points, including 5-of-6 from 3-point, in an 84-82 OT loss to Saint Joseph's ... had five steals in back-to-back games vs. Green Bay & UDC and again at Western Michigan ... has had at least two steals in 18 of 21 games ... has led or tied for the team lead in assists 18 times ... has also led DU in rebounding a team-high six times ... handed out nine assists with one turnover vs. Houston Baptist ... is 12-of-19 (.632) from the 3-point arc and .941 (16-of-17) from the foul line in Atlantic 10 play (14.6, 4.9, 5.0a, 2.6s in conference action).

22 • Kadeem Pantophlet
Freshman Kadeem Pantophlet scored a career high 14 points on 5-of-5 shooting (4-of-4 from 3-point) at Valparaiso on Nov. 20 ... he had two points in four games prior to the outburst ... added three 3-pointers in scoring 11 in the A-10 opener vs. Saint Joseph's ... also had a season-high six rebounds against the Hawks ... scored eight with four rebounds in 16 minutes at Western Michigan ... had three assists in five minutes at Rhode Island ... made his first career start at George Mason and followed that with a second start vs. Bowling Green ... bounced back from an 0-of-6 start to shoot .342 from the 3-point arc ... is 13-of-31 from the arc (.419) in his past 16 games ... leads the team with eight charges taken.

23 • B.J. Monteiro
Senior B.J. Monteiro, who scored a career-high 28 points (11-of-14 from the field) against Bowling Green, followed that with 24 points and a career-high 14 rebounds vs. Houston Baptist to earn Atlantic 10 Player of the Week honors on Jan. 2 ... he completed his double-double vs. HBU with four minutes left in the first half ... averaged 26.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists on 66.7 percent shooting for the week ... Monteiro, who added a career high-tying five assists vs. Houston Baptist, became the 35th member of DU's 1,000-point club with the first of two free throws with 15:40 to go in the first half ... he suffered an off-the-court injury following the HBU game that required stitches in both his left hand and chin ending his team-high streak of consecutive games played at 77 ... he missed DU's first three A-10 games before returning at Rhode Island (12 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals in 29 minutes off the bench) ... followed that with a game-high 23 points and 3 blocks in the win over UMass ... is 21-of-52 (40.4%) in four post-injury games ... he has attempted just 14 3-pointers in his past nine games, after attempting 30 in his first nine ... Monteiro, who shot .376 as a freshman, .465 as a sophomore and .464 as a junior, is shooting .486 through 18 games ... Monteiro, who entered the season a .502 career free throw shooter, is 44-of-76 from the line (.579) this year ... has scored in double digits 53 times topped the 20-point mark eight times in 111 career games ... has started 77 times ... scored 24 points vs. UDC on Nov. 18 .... added 25 vs. Tennessee Tech on Dec. 3 ... pulled down nine boards vs. Penn State ... had a career-high four steals at George Mason on Dec. 21 and career-best six assists against La Salle on Jan. 28 ... ranks fifth on DU's all-time blocked shot list with 72.

32 • Sean Johnson
Sean Johnson has scored in double digits in 19 of 21 games ... opened the season with an 11-game double digit scoring streak which was snapped with four points vs. Robert Morris ... was named to the 2K Sports Classic Valparaiso Subregional All-Tournament team on Nov. 20 after averaging 18.7 ppg. on 50 percent shooting in three games ... is averaging 15.5 points on 10.9 shots/g. ... has attempted a team-high 102 free throws (.794) ... came off the bench in 59 of 62 games as a freshman and sophomore ... has started 19 of 21 games this year ... has recorded his first four 20-point games this season: 24 vs. Akron, 25 vs. Tennessee Tech, 24 vs. Houston Baptist & 20 vs. UMass ... added a career-high 10 boards against the Minutemen for his first career double-double ... also hit a career-high four 3-pointers (4-of-5) - including three in a 2:13 span of the first half - against UMass ... scored eight points in 38 seconds during a game-changing 13-0 second-half run in the 66-52 win over St. Bonaventure on Jan. 7 ... converted two three-point plays during the outburst ... scored all 16 of his points in the last 23 minutes against La Salle ... the La Salle game followed a season-low one-point outing at Saint Louis ... has a team-high 20 career "and-ones" (has made good on 20 of 26 career opportunities including 6-of-6 this year) ... entered the season shooting .442 from the field including .290 from 3-point ... has upped those percentages to .467 & .380 this year.

34 • Mamadou Datt
Freshman Mamadou Datt had his best game as a Duke with eight points and nine rebounds in 29 minutes in his first career start to help DU to a 75-64 win at George Mason on Dec. 21 ... went 4-of-8 with three dunks vs. the Patriots ... had not scored more than two points in his 11 previous games ... added 8 points and 7 rebounds in 11 minutes at Saint Louis on Jan. 21 and followed that with 7 points and 5 boards in 15 minutes vs. La Salle ... grabbed 10 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 ... has attempted 36 field goals in his past 10 games (48 for the season).

35 • Derrick Martin
Redshirt freshman Derrick Martin has seen action in seven of DU's past nine games (35 total minutes) ... had 4 points, 3, rebounds and 2 blocks in 9 minutes vs. Houston Baptist ... had two rebounds in five first-half minutes vs. UMass ... posted 2 boards and 2 blocks in a season-high 12 minutes at Saint Louis.