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Game 6	Duquesne (3-2) at Penn State (8-1)
Date | Time	Wednesday, December 10, 2014 | 9:00 p.m. ET
Location	Bryce Jordan Center (11,550) | State College, Pa.
Game Notes	Complete Game Notes
Television	Big Ten Network
Radio	WJAS 1320 AM / iHeartRadio / 3WS HD2
Streaming Audio	Red Zone Media
Live Statistics
Social Media	@ GoDuquesne

THE SERIES

Series Record: Penn State leads 26-19
At Pittsburgh: Duquesne leads 13-8
At State College, Pa.: Penn State leads 16-4
Neutral Site: Tied 2-2
Current Streak: Penn State won two

• This is the 46th game in a series that dates to Feb. 9, 1924 ... it is also the third game of a four-game home-and-home series ... the two resumed the long-time series with home-and-home meetings in 2010-11 and 2011-12 ... PSU has won the first two of the current series.
• DU and PSU shared membership in the Eastern 8 (precursor to the Atlantic 10) for 12 seasons (1977-79 & 1983-91).
• Penn State leads the series 25-19 ... in games played at State College, PSU leads 16-4 ... Penn State, which won eight of the last nine Atlantic 10 meetings, has won 15 of the past 18 meetings overall.
• The Nittany Lions have won the past nine in a row at home in the series ... DU's last win at PSU was on Jan. 11, 1986 (79-78 in 2OT).
• Penn State returns senior guard D.J. Newbill (23.3 ppg.) who began the week ranked fourth nationally in scoring ... Newbill, who was the Big Ten's second-leading scorer last season (17.8 ppg.), has scored over 500 points in each of the past two seasons.
• Penn State, which is coming off a 73-69 win at Marshall on Saturday, is 4-0 at home ... the Nittany Lions' lone loss came in double overtime (97-106) to Charlotte in the Charleston (SC) Challenge ... PSU has gone on to win six in a row ... three of the six wins have come by three or fewer points.
• This will be DU head coach Jim Ferry's seventh meeting with Penn State (0-6) ... the first four came while Ferry was at LIU Brooklyn ... Ferry is 0-3 vs. fourth-year PSU coach Patrick Chambers ... Ferry is 0-10 vs. the Big 10 ... he has never faced a Big 10 team in his home on-campus arena (seven on the road, vs. Penn State at the Arizona State Classic in 2004 & at CONSOL Energy Center last year and vs. No. 5 (AP) Michigan State in the 2012 NCAA Tournament) in Columbus, Ohio.

QUICK NOTES

• Duquesne, coming off a 76-62 loss to Pitt in the annual City Game on Friday, heads to State College for a matchup with a Penn State team that is riding a six-game winning streak. Penn State (8-1), which is 4-0 at home, is off to its best start since 2000-01 (9-1).
• This will be the 46th meeting between the Dukes and Nittany Lions. This is the fifth consecutive season the two have met.
• Duquesne, which began the week ranked first nationally in 3-point field goal percentage (.458), has shot above 50 percent from the arc in three of five games. Junior Derrick Colter (16-25, .640) leads the nation in individual 3-point percentage through Sunday's games.
• Three different players have hit at least six 3-pointers in a game this season. Derrick Colter went 7-of-8 (26 pts.) in the opener vs. Bluefield State, Jordan Stevens hit 6-of-9 3-point attempts (27 pts.) off the bench at Abilene Christian and Micah Mason was 6-of-7 (18 pts.) from 3-point vs. NJIT.
• Freshman TySean Powell has been the surprise of the young season. The 6-6 forward began the week leading the nation in field goal percentage at .765 (26-34). Powell leads the team in double-digit scoring games (4, the last four in a row), dunks (11) and conventional three-point plays (4 in 4 attempts). He is also 14-of-18 from the foul line.
• Building quality depth has been a priority of head coach Jim Ferry since his arrival at Duquesne. Through five games, DU's bench has outscored the opponent bench 192-82 (an average of 22 ppg.). The DU bench, which posted a high of 67 points at Abilene Christian, was outscored for the first time this season vs. Pitt (31-22).
• Micah Mason, who led the nation in 3-point percentage (.560) while playing exclusively at shooting guard last season, has made the move to the point in 2014-15. Through five games, the junior has 21 assists with 11 turnovers and is shooting .531 (17-of-32) from the 3-point arc. Colter, who played the point for the past two years, is shooting .543, including a nation-leading .640 (16-of-25) from 3-point, since moving over to the two-guard spot. Mason missed last year's Penn State game with a broken hand.
• Duquesne was picked to finish 11th in the 14-team Atlantic 10 in the annual poll of league coaches and media. National media outlets pegged the Dukes to finish anywhere from 7th (Basketball Times & College Basketball Madness) to 12th (Athlon).
• The Dukes return four starters - junior guards Derrick Colter (9.1, 2.5 in 2014) & Micah Mason (10.6, 2.8), junior forward Jeremiah Jones (6.3, 3.4) and senior forward Dominique McKoy (9.7, 7.2) - from last year's 13-17 team (5-11 in the Atlantic 10, tied for 10th place).
• Duquesne's roster consists of one senior, six juniors, three sophomores and five freshmen. The Dukes have four first-year scholarship players.
• DU's lone senior, forward Dominique McKoy, saw a streak of 31 consecutive games played snapped at Abilene Christian. McKoy underwent a medical procedure that prevented him from making the trip to Texas. He returned to lead the Dukes in rebounding with five in 17 minutes vs. NJIT.
• Derrick Colter became the eighth player in school history to hit seven or more 3-pointers in a game when he went 7-of-8 from the arc in scoring a career-high 26 points in the opener vs. Bluefield State. Colter's seven makes were one shy of the school record shared by three players (last by Aaron Jackson who went 8-of-13 in scoring 46 points in a double-overtime NIT 116-108 loss at Virginia Tech on Mar. 18, 2009).
• First-year JC transfer Jordan Stevens picked up where Colter left off in game two at Abilene Christian. Stevens went 6-of-9 from 3-point in scoring 27 points in 28 minutes off the bench. The Columbia, Mo. native, who was held out of the season opener (team suspension), added 16 off the bench vs. NJIT. He had nine points and five assists in 22 minutes off the bench vs. Howard and added 15 points, three assists and two steals vs. Pitt.
• Micah Mason, who led the nation in 3-point shooting percentage in 2014 (65-116, .560), hit a career-high six 3-pointers in seven attempts vs. NJIT on Nov. 29. Mason has now hit five or more "3s" in a game six times (four at Duquesne and two as a freshman at Drake). Mason, who missed five games last year with a broken hand, was one assist shy of leading the nation in assist-to-turnover ratio as well. (He had 74 assists and 13 turnovers in 25 games for a 5.69-to-1 ratio. The minimum to qualify is 3.0 assists per game, Mason finished at 2.96). Through five games, he has 21 assists and 11 turnovers and is 17-of-32 from the 3-point arc.

NEXT UP: Duquesne makes the short trip to Moon Township, Pa. to face Robert Morris (2-6) on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 4:00 p.m.