ST. PETE SHOOTOUT
G10 | (ARV) DUQUESNE (9-0) vs. AUSTIN PEAY (5-5)
Sat., Dec. 21 • 2:30 pm ET • St. Petersburg, Fla. • McArthur Center at Eckerd College

G11 | (ARV) DUQUESNE vs. UAB
Sun., Dec. 22 • 2:30 pm ET • St. Petersburg, Fla. • McArthur Center at Eckerd College

LIVE STREAM: None
RADIO: WJAS-AM 1320 / iHeartRadio with Ray Goss ('58) & Jarrett Durham ('71)
IN-GAME STATS: TritonStats.com

Duquesne (9-0), off to its best start since 1968-69, heads to Florida for the two-game St. Pete Shootout, Dec. 21-22 at Eckerd College's McArthur Center. The Dukes, whose nine-game win streak is the school's longest since 2010-11, face Austin Peay on Saturday and UAB on Sunday. Both games will be at 2:30 p.m. ET (no live stream). DU, which received a vote in the AP Top 25 for the second-straight week, is looking to go 10-0 for the first time since the 1953-54 team opened a school-best 22-0. The Dukes, who rank among the Top 10 nationally in fewest points allowed per game (56.0), have held their past four opponents under 60 points. Austin Peay, which has scored 90 or more three times, brings a 77.9 ppg. scoring average into Saturday's game.

TRENDING

• Duquesne is among others receiving votes (1) in the AP Top 25 for the second-straight week. It is the first time since 2011: Jan. 24 (1), Jan. 31 (15) & Feb. 7 (1), that DU has received votes in multiple weeks. DU's last AP poll appearance was at No. 20 on Feb. 8, 1972 (15-2).
• The Dukes are looking to open 10-0 for the first time since the 1953-54 team started out with 22-straight wins. Sid Dambrot, the father of DU head coach Keith Dambrot, was senior guard on the '54 team.
• DU's nine-game win streak is the longest since Ron Everhart's Dukes reeled off 11 in a row from Dec. 31 to Feb. 2 in 2010-11.
• DU has held its past four opponents under 60 points. It is the longest streak since 2017-18. The last time DU held five in a row under 60 was in 1962-63.
• The Dukes began the week 6th nationally in blocks per game (6.7), 7th in scoring defense (56.0) & 8th in 3-point defense (.250). Indiana State is the only team to score over 70 against Duquesne this year (74-71 DU win).
• The balanced Dukes have five players averaging in double digits, led by preseason Third Team All-A-10 pick Sincere Carry (11.6 ppg). Six players have either led, or tied for the team lead, in scoring through nine games.
• DU has outscored opponents 371-260 in the second half (+12.3 ppg.):
• Junior center Michael Hughes, who began the week ranked 4th nationally in block percentage (KenPom), is shooting .745 from the field.
• Junior Marcus Weathers, averaged 17.5 points and 9.5 rebounds in earning A-10 co-Player of the Week honors on Dec. 16. He is coming off a 19-13 double-double vs. Radford. The 19 points tied his career high and the 13 boards were a new career best.
• Six-eleven grad transfer Baylee Steele is third on the team with 13 3-pointers (13-of-37, .351). He entered the season 2-of-11 from the arc in 68 career Division I games.
• DU's Nov. 12 win over Lamar was the 450th for third-year DU coach Keith Dambrot, who is in his 22nd season.
• DU hasn't trailed since the 16:54 mark of the second half of the Dec. 4 VMI game (a span of two-plus games).
• DU has scored 86 points in the paint in its past two games.
• Duquesne has produced the fourth and fifth-largest margins of victory in neutral-site games in progam history this season (+22, 71-49 over Radford in Akron & +21, 71-50 over Loyola Marymount in Bimini, Bahamas). DU has five 20+-point wins this season (+27 over Princeton, +22 over Lipscomb and +36 over Columbia are the others).
• Under Keith Dambrot, Duquesne is ... 35-3 when leading with 5:00 left ... 34-10 when scoring 70 or more points ... 29-3 when the first to 70 points in a game ... 27-7 when holding opponents under 70.

ST. PETE SHOOTOUT
at Eckerd College (McArthur Center), St. Petersburg, Fla.
(home team on the right)
 
Saturday, December 21
Duquesne (9-0) vs. Austin Peay (5-5) -- 2:30 p.m.
Alabama State (1-9) vs. UAB (6-4) -- 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 22
Austin Peay vs. Alabama State -- Noon
UAB vs. Duquesne -- 2:30 p.m.

vs. AUSTIN PEAY
Series Record: First meeting
At Pittsburgh: Never met
At Clarksville, Tenn.: Never met
Dambrot vs. APSU: 2-1 (both at Akron)

NOTES
Ohio Valley Conference ... located in Clarksville, Tenn. ... this will be the first meeting between the Dukes and Governors ... preseason OVC Player of the Year Terry Taylor (23.8 ppg.) is the lone returning starter from a team that finished third in the OVC with a 13-5 record (22-11 overall) ... the 6-5 junior, who was a first team All-OVC pick last year, also led the Govs in rebounding at 8.9 rpg. last season ... Taylor, the 2018 OVC Rookie of the Year, had a 42-point, 18-rebound game vs. Morehead State last season ... Matt Figger, the 2018 OVC Coach of the Year, is in his third season as head coach ... Figger is the first coach in school history to post double-digit conference wins in back-to-back seasons ... Nikita Johnson, who was on Scott Edgar's staff at Duquesne from 1996-98, is in his first season as an assistant at APSU ... Duquesne is 6-2 all-time against the schools that comprise the current Ohio Valley Conference, including an 85-84 overtime win last season over Eastern Kentucky at the Palumbo Center.

vs. UAB
Series Record: Duquesne leads 2-1
At Pittsburgh: Duquesne leads 1-0
At Birmingham, Ala.: UAB leads 1-0
Neutral Site: Duquesne leads 1-0
Dambrot vs. La Tech: First meeting
 

Nov. 22, 1991	N1	W	87-77
Feb. 18, 1995	A	L	49-71
Feb. 15, 1996	H	W	92-72

N1 - Lobo Classic, Albuquerque, N.M..

NOTES
Conference USA ... located in Birmingham, Ala. ... this is the fourth meeting between the Dukes and Blazers and first since to two met in a home-and-home series in 1995 (a 71-49 UAB win in Birmingham) & 1996 (a 92-72 Duquesne win in Pittsburgh) ... UAB went 20-15 last season on its way to a CBI postseason appearance ... fourth-year head coach Robert Ehsan has guided the Blazers to back-to-back 20-win seasons (20-13 in 2018 and 20-15 last year) ... UAB has played just three of its first 10 games away from home: a 76-75 win at Troy, a 69-58 loss at then-No. 9 (AP) Kentucky and a 67-57 loss at Texas. The Blazers also lost by eight at home (57-65) to then-No. 15 (AP) Memphis.