SOUTH BEND, IND. - Notre Dame (4-1) outscored Duquesne 16-4 over the final 6:30 to pull away for a 67-56 win over the Dukes in the feature game of the Gotham Classic at ND's Purcell Pavilion.
Tavian Dunn-Martin led Duquesne (3-1) with a career-high 14 points.
Michael Hughes added 10 for DU, which battled back from a 10-point second-half deficit to take a three-point lead with under 10 minutes left.
John Mooney led Notre Dame with 16 points.
Duquesne, which trailed 33-27 at the half, missed its first seven shots out of the break before a
Frankie Hughes 3-pointer made it 38-31. Hughes' three ended a streak of 12-straight misses from the arc. Dunn-Martin followed with another 3-pointer to make it 38-34 with just over 15 minutes left.
Austin Rotroff completed a 10-0 run with a bucket to make it 38-38.
DU, which trailed by 10 with 15:47 left, rallied to take a 46-43 lead on a
Frankie Hughes 3-pointer with 9:27 to go.
There were three lead changes before Rotroff put Duquesne up 52-51 on a putback.
ND responded with an 13-0 run to make it 64-52 with 1:19 left, before DU ended a six-minute scoreless drought on a Weathers layup.
Neither team shot it particularly well, with Notre Dame finishing at 37.3 percent to 35 percent for Duquesne. The Irish, who finished with one more field goal than the Dukes, outscored DU 16-8 from the foul line.
Duquesne led 7-5 before the Irish went on a 12-0 run - which included three 3-pointers - to take a 17-7 lead on a Dane Goodwin three-point play.
DU briefly cut it to four on a three-point play by
Tavian Dunn-Martin, before ND put together an 8-0 run to make it 27-15.
Mike Lewis II ended an over five minute scoring drought on a goaltended attempt with 7:08 left.
The Irish led by 11 with under five minutes left, before the Dukes scored five straight - including a bucket by
Michael Hughes at the horn - to make it 33-27 at the half.
Duquesne went 3-1 in the four-game Gotham Classic.  Â
Duquesne returns home to face UMass Lowell on Sunday, Nov. 15 at 1:00 p.m. (ESPN+).
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NOTES:
- Tavian Dunn-Martin, who entered the game 5-of-17 from the arc, went 3-of-4 from distance in scoring a career-high 14 points.
- Eleven players saw action for the Dukes in the first half.
- There were 12 ties and 9 lead changes before Notre Dame took the lead for good on a T.J. Gibbs layup with 6:30 left ... Notre Dame's largest lead was 12 (27-15) with 7:09 left in the first half ... the Irish led 38-28 with 15:47 left ... Duquesne's largest lead was three, the last of which came at 46-43 with 9:18 remaining.