RICHMOND, VA. - Chad Baker scored 16 points and Michael Hughes added nine of his 11 points in the second half  as Duquesne (9-8) held Richmond (13-8) without a field goal over the last 9:28 in rallying from a 14-point first half deficit to defeat the Spiders in an Atlantic 10 Championship second round game at Seigel Center on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

With the win, the Dukes move on to face top-seeded St. Bonaventure (13-4) on Friday at 11:00 a.m. (NBCSN) at Siegel Center.

Marcus Weathers added 12 points and 10 rebounds and Tavian Dunn-Martin scored 11 for Duquesne, which posted its fourth A-10 Championship opening round win in 26 years and first under fourth-year head coach Keith Dambrot.

Hughes added 10 rebounds to match Weathers with a double-double.

Richmond used an 18-3 run to take a 27-13 lead before Toby Okani hit back-to-back buckets to make it 27-17. Duquesne turned it over seven times in the game's first 11:30.

Tyson Acuff, who scored nine points off the bench, hit a 3-pointer cut it to five before Richmond's Grant Golden scored just before the horn to make it 37-30 at the half.

The Dukes, who opened the second half 1-of-10, were down 46-35 with under 13 minutes left, before Weathers ended a Richmond run with a put back dunk. DU battled back to cut it to four on an Amari Kelly jump hook.

DU pulled to within four again on a Hughes dunk off a pass from Weathers and cut it to one on a Dunn-Martin 3-pointer with just over five minutes left.

Hughes then converted a three-point play to give DU its first lead since 10-9 at 54-53.

DU went up 58-54 on a Baker breakaway dunk with 3:30 left.

Richmond tied it at 60-60 before Baker hit a jumper and Dunn-Martin hit a driving layup high off the glass to make it 64-60 with 41 seconds remaining.

Dunn-Martin, who scored eight in the second half, hit a pair of free throws to make it 66-60.

Richmond's Isaiah Wilson was fouled on a three-point attempt but missed all three with 15 seconds left.

The Spiders scored their lone field goal in the final nine-plus minutes with two seconds left.

Duquesne enters Friday's game looking to win multiple A-10 Championship games for the first time since its run to the title game in 2009 as a No. 7 seed. Duquesne has won multiple tournament games four times: 1977 (3-0, Champions), 1981 (2-1, finalist), 1985 (2-1, semifinalist), & 2009 (3-1, finalist).

NOTES

• This was the 15th time Duquesne has come back from a double-digit deficit to win under Keith Dambrot (all 15 have come over the past three seasons). DU trailed by double digits in the second half in 11 of the comebacks. The Dukes, who were 1-10 when trailing at the half in Dambrot's first season, are 17-20 when trailing at the half over the past three seasons (10-8 in 2019, 5-7 in 2020 & 2-5 this year).
• This was Duquesne's first opening game win at the Atlantic 10 Championship since 2015 (61-55 as an 11th seed over No. 14 Saint Louis in the first round at Brooklyn's Barclays Center).
• This was DU's fourth A-10 Championship opening round win in the past 26 years (2004, 2009 & 2015 are the others).
• It was Duquesne's second win over the Spiders in the past four meetings. UR has defeated DU in 22 of 24 Atlantic 10 regular-season matchups and was 2-0 vs. the Dukes in Atlantic 10 Championship games prior to today.
• It was Duquesne's first win over a higher-seeded team at the A-10 Championship since 2009 when the 7th-seeded Dukes defeated No. 2 Rhode Island and No. 3 Dayton in succession on the way to the title game.
• DU enters Friday's game vs. No. 1 seed St. Bonaventure looking to win multiple A-10 Championship games for the first time since its run to the title game in 2009 as a No. 7 seed. Duquesne has won multiple tournament games four times: 1977 (3-0, Champions), 1981 (2-1, finalist), 1985 (2-1, semifinalist), & 2009 (3-1, finalist).
• Duquesne is 1-5 all-time vs. the No. 1 seed at the A-10 Championship, with the win coming in 1985 when the No. 8 Dukes defeated No. 1 West Virginia, 70-66 in the second round at Piscataway, N.J.
• With his free throw with 6:46 to go in the first half Marcus Weathers reached 1,000 in his three seasons at Duquesne. Weathers has 1,318 career points including the 310 he scored as a freshman at Miami, Ohio.
• Weathers (12-10) and Michael Hughes (11-10) both posted double-doubles. It was the second time this season the duo posted double-doubles in the same game. It was the fifth double-double this season for Weathers (16th career) and sixth this year for Hughes (13th career).
• Hughes, who tied his career high with five steals, also added four assists and a pair of blocks. The 6-8 senior, who missed eight of his first nine field goal attempts, made his last four.
• Freshman Chad Baker, who went 7-of-11 from the field in scoring 16 points, added three steals and a pair of blocks.
• Duquesne's largest lead was seven, at 67-60 with 0:03 left ... Richmond's largest lead was 14 at 27-13 with 7:40 left in the first half ... there were three ties and four lead changes before DU took the lead for good on a Chad Baker jumper that made it 62-60 with 1:10 left in ... Duquesne led for 7:09 ... Richmond led for 32:04.