11/22/2016 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
| DUQUESNE MEN'S BASKETBALL GAMEDAY | |
| Game 6 | UT Martin (4-1) at Duquesne (2-3) |
| Date | Time | Wednesday, November 23, 2016 | 7:00 p.m. ET |
| Location | A.J. Palumbo Center (4,390) | Pittsburgh, Pa. |
| Game Notes | Duquesne Game Notes |
| Live Video | A-10 Network (no charge) |
| Audio | WJAS AM 1320 |
| Gametracker | |
| StatBroadcast | StatBroadcast |
| Social Media | @ GoDuquesne  |
| Tickets | available here |
Duquesne continues play in the Bluegrass Showcase on Wednesday night when it hosts the University of Tennessee at Martin at 7:00 p.m. at the Palumbo Center (A-10 Network). The Skyhawks are 2-0 in Showcase games with a home win over Cleveland State (85-74) and road win at Canisius (72-69 on Monday night). DU is 0-2 in the Showcase with a last-second home loss to Canisius (78-77) and loss at No. 2 (AP) Kentucky (93-59 on Sunday night). The UT Martin game is Duquesne's sixth in 13 days.
THE SERIES
- The University of Tennessee at Martin competes in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference. The Skyhawks were picked to finish fourth in the West Division in the OVC preseason poll.
- This is the first meeting between the Dukes and Skyhawks. It is the second of three straight road games for UT Martin.
- UTM is coming off a 20-15 season, including a CIT second round appearance. The Skykawks tied for first in the OVC West with a 10-6 conference record.
- UT Martin went 8-10 on the road in 2016, including an 82-76 mid-December win at Saint Louis. UTM finished the season with wins in 10 of their last 13 games.
- The Skyhawks have 10 transfers on the 2016-17 roster (seven JC and three four-year).
- Anthony Stewart, who was named interim head coach in late April, had the interim tag removed on Nov. 3. Stewart, who was the Skyhawks' associate head coach for the previous two seasons, replaced Heath Schroyer to left to accept an assistant coach position at NC State.
- UTM has an Atlantic 10 connection in junior transfer guard Matthew Butler, who played his first two seasons at Rhode Island. Butler hit seven 3-pointers in UTM's season opening 86-83 loss at Ole Miss.
- Duquesne is 5-1 all-time against the schools that comprise the current Ohio Valley Conference. The Dukes fell in their last meeting against an OVC school, 82-72 at Morehead State on Mar. 21, 2016 in the CBI second round.
QUICK NOTES
- Duquesne, which saw its non-conference home win streak snapped at 11 on a Canisius game-winner with :01.9 left, is facing a UT Martin team that entered its game at Canisius tied for the fourth-most road wins (20) in Division I since the start of the 2014-15 season.
- DU's top four scorers are first-year players: Sophomore Tarin Smith, a first-year transfer from Nebraska, is averaging 14.4 points per game. He is followed by freshman Isiaha Mike (11.0 ppg.), first-year graduate transfer Emile Blackman (9.2 ppg.) and fellow freshman Mike Lewis II (8.8 ppg.). UT Martin, which is averaging 84.6 ppg., has five double-digit scorers.
- The Dukes have had four different leading scorers (Tarin Smith, Mike Lewis II, Rene Castro and Emile Blackman) and five different leading rebounders (Blackman, Smith, Nakye Sanders, Darius Lewis and Isiaha Mike) in its first five games. Blackman, Lewis, Mike and Sanders have all had double-digit rebound games on the young season.
LAST GAME
Duquesne shot a season-low 30.4 percent in a 93-59 defeat at No. 2 (AP) Kentucky on Sunday night ... Emile Blackman (13 points) and Tarin Smith (10) were the lone Dukes in double figures ... freshman Isiaha Mike had a game-high 10 rebounds ... DU shot a Jim Ferry Era low 20 percent (5-of-25) from the 3-point arc and Ferry Era best 90.9 percent (20-of-22) from the foul line ... UK outscored DU 44-20 in the paint and turned 16 offensive rebounds into 19 second-chance points ... the Dukes, who turned it over 18 times, assisted on just seven of 17 field goals.
NEXT UP
DU hosts Cleveland State in its fourth and final Bluegrass Showcase game on Sunday, Nov. 27 at 2:00 p.m. at Palumbo Center (A-10 Network).
