G17 | DUQUESNE (11-5, 2-1) at RICHMOND (7-9, 1-2)
Wed., Jan. 16, 2019 • 7:00 pm ET • Richmond, Va. • Robins Center (7,201)

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Duquesne (11-5, 2-1), coming off a 2-0 homestand, heads to Virginia to face the Richmond (7-9, 1-2) on Wednesday, Jan. 16 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+). The UR game is the first of back-to-back road games for the Dukes who are at George Washington on Sunday. The Robins Center hasn't been friendly to the Dukes, who are looking for their first win at UR since Dec. 20, 1993 (a span of 10 games). Richmond is 4-5 at home this season, including a 0-1 mark in Atlantic 10 play (a 78-67 loss to Rhode Island on Jan. 9). This is just the third road game for the Dukes who lost at Notre Dame on Nov. 20 (56-67) and took Davidson to the wire in a 65-61 defeat at Belk Arena on Jan. 5.

TRENDING

• DU hit a season-high 13 3-pointers (13-29) in the win over Saint Joseph's.
• Duquesne has erased double-digit deficits in four of its wins: -18 vs. Longwood, -14 vs. UIC, -12 vs. Eastern Kentucky & -15 vs. Saint Joe's. DU trailed by double digits in the second half in all but the SJU game (eight points in that one).
• The Dukes are 3-0 in one-point games and 5-1 in games decided by five or fewer points.
• Eight players have either led or tied for the team lead in scoring and 10 have posted a double-digit scoring game this season. DU had a season-high six double-digit scorers vs. Saint Joseph's.
• Freshman guard Sincere Carry leads the A-10 in assist rate and is second in steal percentage according to KenPom. Carry ranked first nationally among freshmen in steals per game (3.00) and seventh among freshmen in assists per game (5.63) through Sunday.
• First-year Akron transfer Michael Hughes ranked among the nation's Top 10 field goal percentage leaders (.670) before dropping below the min. 5.0 FGM/g (he's at 4.7). The 6-8 center has scored in double digits in 10 of the 13 games he's played.
• Tavian Dunn-Martin, who scored a career-high 15 vs. SJU, has 10 assists and two turnovers in his past two games.
• DU is 16-4 under Keith Dambrot when holding opponents under 70 points. The Dukes are 17-2 when they are the first to reach 70 and 9-0 this season when scoring 70 or more.
• DU's 8.88 steals per game average, which ranks 19th nationally, is the highest by a Dukes' team since Ron Everhart's 2011 squad - led by freshman guard T.J. McConnell - led the nation at 9.91 spg.

DUKES AND SPIDERS
Series Record: Richmond leads 22-9
At Pittsburgh: Richmond leads 10-4
At Richmond: Richmond leads 10-4
Neutral Site: Richmond leads 2-1
A-10 Regular Season: Richmond leads 20-1
A-10 Championship: Richmond leads 2-0
Dambrot vs. Richmond: 0-2

• This is the 32nd meeting in a series that dates to Jan. 12, 1937 ... DU led the series 8-0 when Richmond joined the Atlantic 10 in 2001-02 ... the Spiders promptly reeled off 14 consecutive wins before DU ended the streak with an 81-72 win at Palumbo Center in 2012 ... UR defeated the Dukes, 77-73 in overtime last Jan. 24 in Pittsburgh, giving the Spiders an 20-1 record against Duquesne in A-10 regular season games ... Richmond followed that with an 81-68 win in the second round of the A-10 Championship, to give the Spiders a 22-1 lead in games since UR joined the A-10.
• Duquesne has topped the 70-point mark in three of 15 meetings (1-14) against Chris Mooney-coached Richmond teams ... the first was in DU's lone win - 81-72 at the Palumbo Center on Feb. 4, 2012 - the second was in a 101-90 loss at Richmond in 2017 and the third was the OT loss last year (77-73) ... DU has scored 70 or more just four times against UR since the Spiders joined the A-10 in 2001-02 ... the third was in a 72-71 loss at Richmond on Feb. 1, 2005 ... that game was decided when Richmond's Daon Merritt answered a Martin Osimani 3-pointer by racing the length of the court in the final six seconds to hit an acrobatic layup with :00.8 left.

LAST GAME
Duquesne 85, Saint Joseph's 84 • Saturday, Jan. 12, Pittsburgh, Pa.

• Duquesne erased a 15-point first half deficit to defeat Saint Joseph's at the Palumbo Center. It was the fourth time this season DU came back from a double-digit deficit to post a win.
• The Dukes were down 22-7 at the 11:51 mark of the first half and 58-50 with 13:08 left.
• Center Michael Hughes led the charge with 15 of his team-high 17 points (6-of-9 from field) coming in the second half. Hughes added eight rebounds and a career-high three blocks.
• Hughes was one of six Dukes in double figures. It was the first time under Keith Dambrot and first time since a 120-112 CBI win over Omaha on March 16, 2016 that a Duquesne team had six double-digit scorers.
• All four first-year sophomore transfers scored in double digits (Tavian Dunn-Martin, Frankie Hughes, Michael Hughes and Marcus Weathers) along with sophomore Eric Williams Jr. and freshman Sincere Carry.
• Dunn-Martin came off the bench to score a career-high 15 points in 26 minutes. He hit a career-high five 3-pointers (5-of-9) and added five assists.
• Weathers scored his Duquesne-high of 15 points to go along with seven boards.
• Carry finished with 12 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 3 steals in 40 minutes.
• It was the first time this season that head coach Keith Dambrot used eight players. At least 11 had seen action in the 14 previous games (nine played in the opener vs. William & Mary).
• There were 10 ties and seven lead changes … Saint Joseph's largest lead was 15 at 22-7 with 11:51 left in the first half …Duquesne's largest lead was seven at 82-75 with 38 seconds left … Duquesne took the lead for good on a Michael Hughes bucket with 2:52 to go ... Saint Joseph's led for 27:20 … Duquesne led for 6:01 … the game was tied for 6:39.

NOTING THE DUKES

• Duquesne's roster features 11 newcomers, including four eligible Division I transfers. The 11 newcomers are tied for third-most of any NCAA Division I program. Of the 11 newcomers, 10 have seen action so far this season. The Dukes have seven freshmen and five sophomores on the 2018-19 roster.
• DU is ranked 348 of 353 schools in KenPom's listing of "most experienced" college teams. Only two members of the current roster - sophomore Eric Williams Jr. and junior Kellon Taylor - entered conference play having seen action in an Atlantic 10 game.
• DU has added four Division I sophomore transfers, all of whom practiced with the team while sitting out in 2017-18: 5-8 G Tavian Dunn-Martin (Akron), 6-4 G Frankie Hughes (Missouri), 6-8 C Michael Hughes (Akron) and 6-5 F Marcus Weathers (Miami, Ohio). All four have seen significant action this season.
• Duquesne's three Gotham Classic wins came over opponents who averaged 20.7 wins last season in William & Mary (19-12), UIC (20-16, CIT) & Radford (23-13, NCAA). The Dukes led at Notre Dame (21-15, NIT last year) 52-51 with 6:31 left in their fourth Gotham Classic game. Three of DU's nonconference losses came at the hands of Power 5 schools Notre Dame (ACC), Pitt (ACC) and Penn State (Big Ten).
• Second-year head coach Keith Dambrot's 16 wins in 2017-18 were the most by a DU first-year coach since Dudey Moore went 17-5 in 1948-49. Moore coached Keith's father, Sid, from 1952-54 during his highly-successful 10 seasons on the Bluff. There were 10 coaches between Moore and Dambrot. Dambrot engineered the seventh-best single-season improvement in school history in 2018 (+6.0, from 10-22 in 2016-17 to 16-16 last year).
• Freshman point guard Sincere Carry had an eye-opening debut, with seven points and nine assists (without a turnover) vs. William & Mary. He followed that with 32 points and eight more assists vs. UIC. The nine assists tied the sixth-most by a DU freshman, while the 32 points tied the second-highest total by a Dukes freshman. Through Sunday, Carry ranked tied for fourth nationally - and first among freshmen - in steals per game (3.00) and tied for 38th nationally - 7th among freshmen - in assists per game (5.63).
• Sophomore Eric Williams Jr., who was named second team preseason All-Atlantic 10, leads the team in scoring (13.3) and rebounding (7.8). The 2018 A-10 All-Rookie Team pick set DU single-game freshman records for points (34 vs. George Mason) and rebounds (16 vs. Stetson) in a game last season. He also broke the school record for 3-pointers in a game with nine vs. George Mason. Williams Jr., who earned A-10 co-Player of the Week honors on Dec. 24, has five double-doubles this season.
• Six-eight center Michael Hughes is tied with Williams Jr. for the team lead with 10 double-digit games, despite missing the Longwood, Maryland Eastern Shore and Maine games with a knee injury. Hughes, who is shooting .670, is on pace to shatter the school single-season field goal percentage record of .649 set by Fred Moon in 1979-80 (min. 200 points). Hughes never scored more than six points in a game as a freshman while at Akron.  
• Dambrot and his staff assembled the tallest recruiting class in school history. The seven-man group includes 6-11 Gavin Bizeau (Plainfield, Ind.), 6-11 Dylan Swingle (Chillicothe, Ohio), 6-10 Austin Rotroff (Wauseon, Ohio), 6-9 Amari Kelly (Long Island, N.Y.), 6-3 Lamar Norman Jr. (Grand Rapids, Mich.), 6-2 Brandon Wade (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and 6-1 Sincere Carry (Solon, Ohio). An eighth recruit - 6-11 James Ellis (Pittsburgh, Pa.) - is sitting out in 2018-19. Duquesne had never had a recruiting class with more than two players 6-9 or taller.
• Duquesne was picked to finish 11th in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll of conference coaches and media released on October 18. Eric Williams Jr. was named preseason second team All-A-10. He is the first Duke since Damian Saunders (2010-11) to earn preseason second team all-conference honors.
• Guard Mike Lewis II, who scored 979 points in 76 games (72 starts) at Duquesne (12.9 ppg), transferred to Nevada in December. Lewis II averaged 5.6 ppg. in 12 games this season. He scored in double digits 53 times (twice this season) and topped the 20-point mark 17 times as a Duke.