PITTSBURGH - Duquesne (21-9, 11-7), which finished the Atlantic 10 regular season with a school record 11 conference wins, will be seeded sixth at the 2020 Atlantic 10 Championship set for March 11-15 at Brooklyn's Barclays Center.

The Dukes will face the winner of No. 11 George Washington vs. No. 14 Fordham on Thursday, March 12 at 8:30 p.m. on NBCSN.

The Duquesne vs. GW/Fordham winner will face No. 3 Rhode Island on Friday, March 13 at 8:30 p.m., also on NBCSN.

Duquesne, picked eighth in the preseason poll of A-10 coaches and media, finished tied for fifth in regular-season play, marking the program's best conference finish since 2011.

For updated Atlantic 10 Championship information, including tickets, please visit the Duquesne Championship Central page.

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A-10 CHAMPIONSHIP NOTABLES:

• Only two of the past 14 regular season champions have gone on to win the postseason tournament (co-champ Temple in 2010 & Saint Louis in 2013).
• Eight different schools have won the past 10 Championships (includes former member Temple): Temple (2010), Richmond (2011), St. Bonaventure (2012), Saint Louis (2013 & 2019), Saint Joseph's (2014 & 2016), VCU (2015), Rhode Island (2017) and Davidson (2018).
• Four times has a team won four consecutive games to win the tournament (Xavier in 2004 & 2006, VCU in 2015 and Saint Louis last year).
• Duquesne (2009) is one of seven schools who has won three times to reach the championship game since divisional seeding was discontinued in 2006. In the history of the tournament, it has only happened a total of nine times: St. Bonaventure (1984), Xavier (2004 Champion), Xavier (2006 Champion), Saint Joseph's (2006), Saint Joseph's (2008), Duquesne (2009), Dayton (2011), VCU (2015 Champion) and Saint Louis (2019 Champion).