G30 | RICHMOND (23-7, 13-4) at DUQUESNE (21-8, 11-6)
Fri., Mar. 6 • 7:00 pm ET • Pittsburgh, Pa. • PPG Paints Arena (flex seating to 19,000)

LIVE STREAM: ESPN+ with Josh Taylor & Ellis Cannon
RADIO: WJAS-AM 1320 / iHeartRadio with Ray Goss ('58) & Jarrett Durham ('71)

Duquesne (21-8, 11-6), winner of three in a row, completes the Atlantic 10 schedule vs. Richmond (23-7, 13-4) on Friday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+). It will be the final home game for Caleb Davis and Baylee Steele who will be recognized along with senior support staff members Grant Wolfe and Bobby White prior to the game. The Dukes, who are battling for a top four seed at the Atlantic 10 Championship, scheduled for Mar. 11-15 at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, face a second-place Richmond team that has won eight of its past nine. The Spiders (75.4 ppg.) and Dukes (71.9 ppg.) rank among the top five scoring teams in the A-10. UR is averaging 82.7 points in its past three games, while DU has scored 81, 81 and 80 points (80.7 ppg.) over that same span.

The Department of Athletics is offering a Senior Day ticket special of 2 tickets for $21 for the UR game.

TRENDING

• This is the first time since 1971 (21-4) & 1972 (20-5) that Duquesne has had 19 or more wins in back-to-back seasons (DU was 19-13 last year).
• It is also the first time DU has produced back-to-back seasons with 9+ Atlantic 10 wins (10-8 last year).
• DU's 21-8 record is the school's best through 29 games since 1961-62 (22-7).
• The Dukes are holding opponents to 66.2 points per game - the lowest opponent average in 38 years.
• The Dukes rank 9th nationally - and first in the A-10 - in blocks/g. at 5.48.
• Sophomore Sincere Carry is averaging 13.1 points & 5.9 assists (2.1-to-1 assist/turnover ratio) in A-10 play. DU is 16-4 when Carry hands out five or more assists.
• Junior Marcus Weathers, who went over the 1,000 career point mark on Feb. 22 at Dayton, has 18 traditional three-point plays this season. It is the most by a Duke since Aaron Jackson converted 20 in 2009. Weathers leads DU with 144 free throw attempts.
• Junior center Michael Hughes ranks 9th nationally in blocks/g. (2.76). DU is 8-1 (4-1 in A-10 play) when Hughes blocks four or more shots. Hughes is one of eight D-I players 6'8" or taller who is averaging over 1.48 steals/g. He also has a positive assist-to-turnover ratio (48-41) through 29 games.
• Under Keith Dambrot, DU is: 43-3 when leading with 5:00 left ... 43-12 when scoring 70 or more points (15-2 this year) ... 36-3 when the first to 70 points in a game ... 35-7 when holding opponents under 70 (16-0 this year) and 8-1 in overtime (3-0 this year).
• The Dukes have won 10 of 13 at home while playing at three different venues (PPG Paints Arena, D-III La Roche University and Robert Morris). DU has been displaced by season-long renovation work which is being done to the on-campus UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. Duquesne has had to board a bus for 24 of its 29 games this season (La Roche is 10 miles from DU's downtown campus & Robert Morris is an 18-mile trip). Duquesne is 37-14 in home games under Dambrot, including a 24-8 mark over the past two seasons. The Dukes are 11-5 in A-10 home games over the past two years.

DUKES AND SPIDERS
Series Record: Richmond leads 22-10
At Pittsburgh: Richmond leads 10-4
At Richmond: Richmond leads 10-5
Neutral Site: Richmond leads 2-1
A-10 Regular Season: Richmond leads 20-2
A-10 Championship: Richmond leads 2-0
Dambrot vs. Richmond: 1-2

• This is the 33rd 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 then won eight more in a row before DU halted that streak with a 74-68 win last year at Richmond ... in A-10 regular season games, the Spiders hold a 20-2 lead ... DU is looking for back-to-back wins over UR for the first time since 1993 & 1994.
• Duquesne has topped the 70-point mark in four of 16 meetings (2-14) against Chris Mooney-coached Richmond teams ... the first was in DU's first win - 81-72 at the Palumbo Center on Feb. 4, 2012 - the second was in a 101-90 loss at Richmond in 2017, the third was in an OT loss in 2018 (77-73) and the fourth was in last year's 74-68 win at UR ... DU has scored 70 or more just five times against UR since the Spiders joined the A-10 in 2001-02 ... the other 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.

MOST ALL-TIME WINS
DU's 21 wins - the most since 2009 - are tied for sixth-best in program history:
 

26-3*	1954
23-6	1950
23-4*	1952
22-4	1955
22-7	1962
21-8	2020
21-8*	1953
21-5	1969
21-4	1971
21-13	2009

* Keith Dambrot's father, Sid (1952-54) was a guard for three of the above teams


WORTH NOTING

• The Dukes, in their third season under head coach Keith Dambrot, have posted 20 wins for the first time since 2009 (21-13 NIT) and just the third time in the past 48 years.
• Duquesne has broken the school record for A-10 wins (previously 10) and clinched back-to-back winning A-10 seasons for just the second time in school history (1980 & 1981 are the others).  DU's 21 A-10 wins over the past two seasons are the most ever in back-to-back years.
• The Dukes, who were picked to finish eighth in the 2019-20 Atlantic 10 preseason poll, have exceeded their preseason A-10 pick in each of their first two seasons under Dambrot. The 2018 team, picked to finish last, ended up tied for 10th. Last year DU, picked 11th, ended up tied for sixth. Last year marked the first time since 2009 (picked 12th, finished tied for fifth) that a Duquesne team exceeded its preseason pick by five or more spots.
• Dambrot, who inherited a 10-22 team (3-15 in the A-10) in 2017-18, posted a 16-16 record in 2018. He followed that by guiding a 2019 team - with a roster that saw 97 percent of its points come from freshmen and sophomores - to 19 wins (19-13) and a 10-8 Atlantic 10 finish (T6th). This is the first time since 1971 & 1972 that DU has had 19 or more wins in back-to-back seasons.
•  Duquesne opened the season with 10-straight wins - the school's best start since 1953-54 (22-0). Along the way, DU received a vote in both the Dec. 9 & 16 AP polls, marking the first time a Dukes team received an AP vote since Feb. 7, 2011. Duquesne has since received votes on Jan. 13 (9) and Jan. 20 (13). DU's last AP poll appearance was at No. 20 on Feb. 8, 1972 (15-2).
• DU's 10-0 start was the best since the 1953-54 team opened with 22-straight wins. Sid Dambrot, the father of DU head coach Keith Dambrot, was a senior guard on the '54 team which reached No. 1 in the AP & UPI polls. The 10-game win streak was the program's longest since Ron Everhart's Dukes reeled off 11 in a row from Dec. 31 to Feb. 2 in 2010-11. DU was one of the last four undefeated NCAA Division I teams this season.
• The balanced Dukes have five players averaging between 8.8 and 14.4 points per game.
• Seven players have either led, or tied for the team lead, in scoring and six have scored 20 or more. The six 20-point scorers: Marcus Weathers (5), Sincere Carry (4) Tavian Dunn-Martin (4), Michael Hughes, Baylee Steele & Lamar Norman Jr.
•  Duquesne has come back from double-digit deficits to win five times: -14 vs. Princeton, -12 vs. Indiana State, Loyola Marymount and VCU and -11 vs. VMI. Dambrot's Dukes have erased a total of 13 double-digit deficits in the past two seasons.

LAST GAME
Duquesne 80, VCU 77 (OT) • Tuesday, Mar. 3, Richmond, Va.

• Duquesne rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit to tie it on a Lamar Norman Jr. drive with :05.6 left. Tavian Dunn-Martin and Baylee Steele hit big 3-pointers in OT to give the Dukes their first win in the eight-game series with the Rams.
• Dunn-Martin hit all five of his 3-pointers after the half in scoring a team-high 23 for DU.
• Marcus Weathers had 16 points, nine rebounds, three assists and three steals. Michael Hughes had 14 points and eight boards before fouling out with 21 seconds left in regulation. Sincere Carry added seven points, six rebounds and a game-high seven assists.
• It was the largest second-half deficit overcome by the Dukes this year (down 61-49 with 8:14 to go).
• Duquesne moved to 8-1 in overtime games under Keith Dambrot (3-0 this season).
• VCU's largest lead was 12 at the last of which came at 61-49 with 8:14 left ... Duquesne's largest lead was the three-point final margin ... there were three ties and three lead changes before Steele's 3-pointer with 1:58 left in overtime gave Duquesne the lead for good ... VCU led for 39:05 ... Duquesne led for 2:30.