DUQUESNE MEN'S BASKETBALL GAMEDAY INFORMATION
Game 29	Davidson (22-6, 13-4) at Duquesne (11-17, 6-11)
Date | Time	Saturday, March 7, 2015 | 7:00 p.m. ET
Location	A.J. Palumbo Center (4,406) | Pittsburgh, Pa.
Game Notes	Complete Game Notes
Television	American Sports Network
Radio	WJAS 1320 AM / iHeartRadio / 3WS HD2
Streaming Audio	Red Zone Media
Live Statistics
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THE SERIES

• This is the second meeting between Duquesne and first-year Atlantic 10 member Davidson ... the Wildcats won at Belk Arena, 95-69 on Feb. 7.
• Davidson, picked to finish 12th in the A-10 preseason poll, can clinch at least a share of the Atlantic 10 regular season title and No. 1 overall seed at the Atlantic 10 Championship (March 11-15 at Barclays Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.) with a win.

ON THE WILDCATS
Davidson, the hottest team in the Atlantic 10, began its current eight-game winning streak with a 95-69 victory over Duquesne on Feb. 7 ... three of the Wildcats' six losses have come to ranked teams ... Davidson, the highest scoring team in the conference at 79.6 ppg., is coming off an 82-55 win over VCU on Thursday night ... Davidson, which jumped out to a 14-2 lead, never trailed ... Tyler Kalinoski led five players in double figures with 22 points ... the `Cats limited the Rams to 1-of-15 shooting from 3-point ... Jordan Barham posted a 14-14 double-double for the Wildcats ... the Wildcats are the most balanced team in the conference with four players averaging in double digits led by senior guard Tyler Kalinoski (16.4 ppg.) ... seven players have scored 20 or more in a game ... Davidson, which has hit at least one 3-pointer in 666 consecutive games (dating back to Jan. 15, 1994), is averaging 10.6 3-pointers/g, which ranks second nationally ... the Wildcats have three players with over 100 assists in just 28 games (Kalinoski with 112, Brian Sullivan with 104 and Jack Gibbs with 103) ... Davidson leads the A-10 in scoring (79.6), scoring margin (+11.8), field goal (.470), 3-point (.394) and free throw pct. (.724), defensive rebounds (25.9), assists (16.8), assist/turnover ratio (1.7) and 3-pointers made (10.7) ... the `Cats are also second in 3-point field goal pct. defense (.286) ... the Wildcats shot 50.9 percent in dismantling VCU on Thursday ... Davidson is coached by Bob McKillop who is in his 26th season (all with the Wildcats) ... he is the seventh-longest tenured coach in the country ... he has led Davidson to 20 or more wins in 21 of his first 25 seasons.


THE DUKES

• Duquesne (11-17, 6-11), winner of three of its past four - and last four at home - concludes the regular season vs. Davidson (22-6, 13-4) on Sat., Mar. 7 at 7:00 p.m. (American Sports Network). The Dukes, who haven't lost at home since Jan. 22, are 9-6 in Pittsburgh. First-year Atlantic 10 member Davidson, which is making its first visit to DU, is 8-4 (5-3 in A-10) on the road. This is the second game of a home-and-home series. Davidson won the first meeting, 95-69, at Belk Arena on Feb. 7. DU has split with three of its first four A-10 home-and-home opponents, turning three road losses into double-digit home wins.
• Duquesne can finish no higher than 10th nor no worse than 11th in the A-10. The Dukes need a win and a Saint Joseph's (13-16, 7-10) loss at Rhode Island (2:00 p.m.) to claim the No. 10 seed. The 11th through 14th place finishers open the Atlantic 10 Championship (March 11-15 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.) on Wednesday, March 11. Seeds 5-10 begin play on Thursday, while the top four finishers have a bye until Friday.
• Three of DU's A-10 home games 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. The Dukes were also tied with UMass with under three minutes left at Mullins Center on Feb. 14.

LEFTOVERS FROM FORDHAM
Leftovers from Duquesne's 81-66 win at Fordham on Wednesday: the win, DU's third in four game, snapped a 10-game road losing streak ... Fordham, which had won its three previous home games - all by double-digit margins - led by 12 with under five minutes left in the first half before the Dukes stormed back to outscore the Rams 18-3 over the final 4:51 to take a 38-35 halftime lead ... DU hit five 3-pointers in the first 9:01 of the second half to take a 16-point lead ... Fordham briefly cut it to nine before Derrick Colter converted a three-point play with 2:11 left to give Duquesne a double-digit lead it maintained the rest of the way ... Colter, Micah Mason, Dominique McKoy and L.G. Gill (four 3-pointers) had 16 points each for DU ... Jeremiah Jones was the fifth player in double figures with 13 ... Colter added 7 assists ... the 12-point comeback tied the third-best under Jim Ferry ... it was also the largest margin of victory in an A-10 road game by a Ferry-coached Dukes team ... DU outscored Fordham 17-2 off turnovers and committed a season-low eight fouls ... Duquesne was 19-of-25 from the foul line, including 17-of-21 in the second half ... Fordham went 6-of-31 from 3-point against DU's 2-3 zone ... DU went 10-of-22 from the arc.

TRENDING
Duquesne has averaged 77.4 ppg. - and not scored under 72 - in the seven games since its 95-69 loss at Davidson ... DU is 125-of-169 (.740) from the stripe in its past nine games (.648 for the season) ... despite its 11-17 record, Duquesne has been outscored by an average of just 1.7 points per game ... in conference play, DU is averaging 74.2 ppg. at home and 67.7 on the road ... the Dukes are outscoring A-10 opponents by +5.1 ppg. at home and were outscored by 14.7 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 ... on the road, A-10 foes shot .490 ... 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 year ... the 5-11 guard, who has scored 20 or more a team high four times, has two four-point plays this year ... he leads the team with 21 double-digit scoring games ... Colter, who has had two or fewer turnovers in 20 of 28 games, topped the 100 assist mark for the third time in three seasons at Fordham ... Colter, who has scored 10 or more in 13 of 17 A-10 contests, is averaging 36.7 minutes in DU's past seven games ... he has 20 assists in his past three games (6.7 apg.) ... senior forward Dominique McKoy, who shot .364 (12-of-33) in his first nine games, is shooting .599 (82-of-137) in his past 18 ... he has scored 182 of his 210 points over that span ... he has scored in double digits in six of his past eight games with a career high of 20 at St. Bonaventure ... he has led the team in rebounding 11 times and also has a team-high three double-digit rebound games (career-high 16 vs. George Mason, 15 at St. Bonaventure and 12 at Saint Louis) ... McKoy, who is shooting .431 from the foul line on the season, is 12-of-21 (.571) from the stripe in his last 11 games ... Micah Mason is averaging 38.0 minutes per game with just eight turnovers in his past seven 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 assists and 3 steals vs. Saint Louis ... he was held to six points in 39 minutes at St. Bonaventure before bouncing back with 16 (7-of-7 from the foul line) at Fordham ... Mason, who is second on the team with 94 defensive rebounds, is 38-of-41 (.927) from the foul line this season (.854 for his career) ... Jeremiah Jones, who has scored in double digits in seven of DU's past eight games, scored a career high-tying 16 (including a career high-tying three 3-pointers) in the win over Saint Louis and followed that with 13 at St. Bonaventure and 13 more at Fordham the 42 points are the highest three-game total in his career ... Jones ranks second on the team with 90 assists and has led the Dukes in single-game assists nine times (two fewer than team leader Derrick Colter) ... Jones has shot 50 percent or better in five of his past 10 games ... he shot 33.6 percent (36-of-107) in his first 18 games ... Jones leads the team with 47 offensive rebounds ... six-eleven sophomore center Darius Lewis, who averaged 9.4 min/g. in his first 10 games, has averaged 16.9 in 18 games as a starter ... Lewis had seven points, a career-high 12 rebounds and two blocks in the rematch with GW ... he has fouled out a team-high five times, including four in conference play ... forward L.G. Gill has scored in double figures off the bench in six of his past eight 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 scored exactly 10 in the three games prior to totaling five at St. Bonaventure ... he bounced back to hit a season-high four 3-pointers in scoring 16 points in 18 minutes at Fordham ... 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 seven games, Robinson shooting .600 (12-of-20) .... he is 10-of-13 from the foul line over that span ... TySean Powell posted his second double-digit game since Dec. 30 in the first meeting with Davidson (11 points) ... he was suspended for the GW game and played one minute at UMass before scoring seven in 11 minutes at La Salle ... he added seven points and seven rebounds in 15 minutes in the win over Dayton.