Feb. 26, 2015
THE SERIES
• This is the 114th meeting in a series that dates to Feb. 13, 1920 ... Duquesne leads 58-55, including a 30-29 lead in Atlantic 10 regular season games ... in games played at Olean/Buffalo, SBU leads 36-18 ... the Dukes have won six of the last eight at Palumbo Center, while SBU has won the last six at Reilly Center ... DU's last Reilly Center win was on Jan. 10, 2009 (98-80) ... Duquesne owns more conference wins over St. Bonaventure (30) than any other A-10 school.
• St. Bonaventure is Duquesne's most frequent all-time opponent ... this is the 64th consecutive season the two have met ... this is the tenth consecutive year the two are meeting home-and-home ... last year the two split home wins ... SBU won the first meeting, 100-97 in OT in Pittsburgh on Jan. 22.
• The Bonnies have won five of the past eight ... the last five games have been decided by eight or fewer points.
ON THE BONNIES
SBU is 6-6 at home, including a 2-4 mark in A-10 play ... the Bonnies, who have lost their last two at Reilly Center, are coming off a 69-46 loss at George Washington ... junior guard Marcus Posley, who scored 36 in the first meeting with DU, leads the team with a 16.2 ppg. scoring average ... seven-foot senior center Youssou Ndoye is averaging 11.9 points and 10.4 rebounds/g. ... SBU is 1-3 without freshman point guard Jaylen Adams (10.0 ppg., 4.5 apg.) who underwent finger surgery in mid-February ... Adams had 15 points and 14 assists in the first meeting with Duquesne on on Jan. 22.
THE DUKES
• Duquesne (10-16, 5-10), winner of two in a row, heads to Olean, N.Y. to face St. Bonaventure (14-12, 7-8) on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 4:00 p.m. (A-10 Digital Network). SBU, one of five home-and-home opponents for the Dukes, defeated DU 100-97 in OT at Palumbo Center on Jan. 22. DU is 1-9 on the road, with the win coming at Abilene Christian on Nov. 22.
• Duquesne has completed three of its five A-10 home-and-homes, turning road losses into double-digit home wins in all three cases. DU followed a 74-59 defeat at George Washington with a 78-62 Palumbo Center win over the Colonials on Feb. 11. On Feb. 21, the Dukes avenged an 81-55 loss at Dayton with an 83-73 win over the Flyers at CONSOL Energy Center anad on Wednesday, DU followed a 78-69 loss at Saint Louis with a 79-66 home win over the Billikens. After SBU, the Dukes will have one rematch remaining, at home vs. Davidson on Mar., 7.
• Three of DU's A-10 games - all at home - have come down to the last possession: a 71-68 win over Saint Joseph's, a 61-60 loss to Rhode Island and a 100-97 OT loss to St. Bonaventure (the Dukes led Rhody by 13 and the Bonnies by 15 in the second half). In addition, DU had the ball down two with under two minutes left in a 70-64 "home" loss to No. 17 (AP) VCU at CONSOL Energy Center on Jan. 17 and was tied with UMass with under three minutes left at Mullins Center on Feb. 14.
LEFTOVERS FROM SAINT LOUIS
Leftovers from Duquesne's 79-66 win over Saint Louis on Wednesday: the win - Duquesne's fourth in a row at home, - avenged 78-69 loss to the Billikens in St. Louis on Jan. 14 ... Micah Mason led five Dukes in double figures with 20 points ... Jeremiah Jones tied his career high for points (16) and 3-pointers (3) ... the Dukes, led by Mason's four 3-pointers, went 11-of-28 from the arc ... DU, which was 13-of-34 from the foul line in the loss at Saint Louis, was 16-of-20 from the stripe - including 12-of-12 in the second half ... DU led for 36:31 of the 40 minutes ... the Dukes took the lead for good on a Mason 3-pointer with 1:54 left in the first half ... DU held SLU to 42.9 percent shooting (6-of-21 from 3-point) ... Dominique McKoy (12), Derrick Colter (12) and L.G. Gill (10) were Duquesne's other double-digit scorers.
TRENDING
The Dukes have had five double-digit scorers in each of their past two games ... DU has led for 55:58 of a possible 60 minutes in its last three halves of basketball (beginning with the second half vs. Dayton) ... Duquesne is 88-of-118 (.746) from the stripe in its past seven games (.621 for the season) ... this is Duquesne's best 3-point shooing team (.367) since 1997 (.367) ... despite its 10-16 record, Duquesne has been outscored by an average of just 1.8 points per game ... in conference play, DU is averaging 74.2 ppg. at home and 64.7 on the road ... the Dukes are outscoring A-10 opponents by +5.1 ppg. at home and are being outscored by 18.6 ppg. on the road ... DU is 1-4 in games decided by three or fewer points (1-3 in conference play) ... DU has held eight A-10 opponents to .384 shooting at home ... when the Dukes go on the road, A-10 foes are shooting .509 ... junior guard Derrick Colter, who had five games with four or more 3-pointers in his first two seasons (60 g.) has six games with four or more "3s" this season ... the 5-11 guard, who has scored 20 or more a team high-tying three times, has two four-point plays this year ... Colter has had two or fewer turnovers in 20 of 26 games ... he leads the team with 19 double-digit scoring games ... Colter, who has scored 10 or more in 11 of 15 A-10 contests, is averaging 35.8 minutes in DU's past five games ... senior forward Dominique McKoy, who shot .364 (12-of-33) in his first nine games, is shooting .580 (65-of-112) in his past 16 ... he has scored 146 of his 174 points over that span ... he has scored in double digits in four of his past six games and led the team in rebounding nine times this season ... McKoy, whos is shooting .426 from the foul line on the season, is 10-of-14 from the stripe in his last nine games ... Micah Mason, who has led the Dukes in scoring in four of the past five games, is averaging 19.4 points (.557 from the field), 4.8 rebounds and 5.2 assists over that span ... he is averaging 37.6 minutes per game with just seven turnovers in his past five outings ... he saw a streak of two consecutive 20-point games (career-high 24 vs. GW & 20 at UMass) snapped with 16 at La Salle ... he followed that with 17 points, 8 rebounds, 9 assists and 4 steals in the win over Dayton and added 20 points, 5 rebounds, 5 asissts and 3 steals vs. Saint Louis ... Mason, who is second on the team with 87 defensive rebounds, is 31-of-34 from the foul line (.840 for his career) ... Jeremiah Jones averaged a near triple-double (10.5 points, 8.0 rebounds & 7.0 assists) in two games last week (7-14, .500 from the field) before being shut out (0-of-7) at La Salle ... he bounced back with 10 points and 5 rebounds vs. Dayton and followed that with a career high-tying 16 (including a career high-tying three 3-pointers) in the win over Saint Louis ... Jones ranks second on the team with 83 assists and has led the Dukes in single-game assists a team high-tying (with Colter) nine times ... Jones, who has scored in double digits in five of his past six games, has shot 50 percent or better in five of his past eight games ... he shot 33.6 percent (36-of-107) in his first 18 games ... Jones leads the team with 46 offensive rebounds ... six-eleven sophomore center Darius Lewis, who averaged 9.4 min/g. in his first 10 games, has averaged 16.6 in 16 games as a starter ... Lewis had seven points, a career-high 12 rebounds and two blocks vs. GW ... he has fouled out a team-high five times, including four in conference play ... forward L.G. Gill has scored in double figures in five of his past six games ... Gill followed his first scoreless game this season, vs. George Mason on Jan. 31, with a team-high 13 at Davidson and added 10 second-half points vs. GW ... he had scored exactly 10 in DU's past three games ... 6-8, 250-pound freshman Jordan Robinson tied his career high with 10 points in a career-best 25 minutes at UMass and followed that with six in 12 minutes at La Salle ... in his past five games, Robinson is averaging 5.4 points in 11.4 minutes per game on 9-of-14 shooting (.643) .... he is 9-of-12 from the foul line in his last five games ... TySean Powell posted his second double-digit game since Dec. 30 with his 11 points at Davidson ... he was suspended for the GW game and played one minute at UMass before scoring seven in 11 minutes at La Salle.
