GAME 16 | DUQUESNE (6-9, 1-2 A-10) at DAVIDSON (10-3, 1-0 A-10)
Sat. Jan. 15, 2022 • 1:00 p.m.
John M. Belk Arena (5,295), Davidson, N.C.
TV: ESPN+

The Dukes will travel to Davidson for an A-10 contest Saturday afternoon. The two teams will be playing for the first time since Feb. 16, 2020.

HOW TO FOLLOW

• The game will be streamed live on ESPN+.
• Live stats are available here.
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THE SERIES - vs. DAVIDSON

• The Dukes and Wildcats will be playing for the first time in two seasons after their 2021 contest was postponed and not rescheduled.
• Prior to 2021, the two teams had met each year since Davidson joined the Atlantic 10 in 2014.
• Duquesne won the first four meetings between the two schools as A-10 members, but the Wildcats have won each of the past two games.
• Davidson's 79-76 win in the last meeting in 2020 was just the second time in series history that the final margin of victory for the winning side was not double digits.

LAST MEETING - Feb. 16, 2020

• The Dukes came up just short when Amanda Kalin's potential game-tying shot at the buzzer rimmed out to allow the Wildcats to hold on for a 79-76 win.
• Duquesne trailed by as many as 13 in the second quarter, before battling back to take the lead midway through the third.
• Former Duke Paige Cannon poured in 18 points to lead the team.
• Amaya Hamilton (14 pts.), Kalin (13 pts.) and Libby Bazelak (10 pts.) also reached double figures in the loss.
• Davidson's Katie Turner scored a game-high 21 points, while Chloe Welch paced her with a 20-point game of her own.

SCOUTING DAVIDSON

• The Wildcats opened A-10 play on Wednesday night with a last-minute 50-47 win at St. Bonaventure to push their winning streak to five games.
• Davidson trailed by one when Cameron Taber knocked down a go-ahead three pointer with 14 seconds left in the game.
• The Bonnies were unable to reclaim the lead on the final possession and allowed the Wildcats to pull out the win.
• It was Davidson's first game in 21 days.
• Elle Sutphin led Davidson with her second-straight 20-point outing.
• Sutphin leads the team with 13.5 ppg. and ranks second in the A-10 and 32nd in Division I with a 56.4 field goal percentage.
• Suzi-Rose Deegan has scored in double-figures in each of the past three games, including a double-double of 15 points and 10 rebounds against Charlotte.
• The Wildcats rank among the top-three in the A-10 in turnovers forced (3rd/16.8) and free-throw percentage (3rd/75.7 percent).
• Davidson only got to the charity stripe once against the Bonnies and went 1-of-2 at the line.

LAST TIME OUT

• The Dukes used a huge fourth quarter effort to pull away for a 63-44 win over St. Bonaventure last Saturday.
• Duquesne scored 17-straight and out-scored the Bonnies 23-5 in the fourth quarter alone.
• Fatou Pouye paced the Dukes with 16 points on 6-of-10 shooting, despite playing just 16 minutes due to foul trouble. She picked up her fourth foul with 3:06 left in the third quarter.
• Three other Dukes scored in double figures, including Tess Myers (13 pts.), Megan McConnell (12 pts.) and Laia Sole (11 pts.).
• The Dukes opened the game with 18-straight missed three-point shots, before Myers ended the drought in the fourth quarter on the first of three-straight treys.
• The team's 4-for-23 (17 percent) outing was a season-low in three pointers made.

BORN TO RUN

• Duquesne's 17-0 run versus St. Bonaventure was its largest of the season.
• The Dukes have gone on a double-digit run in seven different games this season, including four of the past seven contests.
• Prior to the St. Bonaventure game, the season-high was a run of 16-straight points to open the game in the team's win over Lafayette on Nov. 14.

DAN BURT VERSUS THE TAR HEEL STATE

• Dan Burt is 6-4 against schools from North Carolina since he took over as Duquesne's head coach in 2013.
• Davidson (4-2) and Charlotte (0-2) are the only schools from North Carolina that have defeated a Burt-coached Dukes' squad.

TAKING AWAY THE TOP OPTION

• Duquesne has held the leading scorers for their opponent below their season-average in each of their six victories this season.
• Notably,     Akron leading scorer Jordyn Dawson (24.0 ppg.) was limited to just four points on 1-of-11 shooting against the Dukes.
• Canisius leading scorer Dani Haskell (16.2 ppg.) finished with 12 points on 5-of-16 shooting, including zero made three-point field goals on seven attempts.
• St. Bonaventure leading scorer and 2021 Third-Team A-10 All-Conference guard Asianae Johnson (15.9 ppg.) was limited to six points on 2-of-15 shooting with five turnovers.

ROUTE 66

• The Dukes have won all six games in which they held their opponent to under 66 points this season.
• Duquesne is winless when it allows 67 or more points.
• The Dukes held VCU to 65 points in regulation, before falling 74-70 in overtime on Jan. 5.

ROAD WOES

• Duquesne is 1-6 when playing on the road this season.
• After losing by double-digits at UCF and Tulsa to open the season, the Dukes have been defeated by an average of 4.0 points in their past four losses on the road.
• Duquesne's lone victory on the road was a 59-49 win at Siena in which it committed a season-high 26 turnovers.

MAKING A NAME FOR HERSELF

• Tess Myers has scored in double figures in five of the last six games, including a career-high 23 points all in the second half of the team's win over Saint Francis on Dec. 11.
• She followed that performance with 21 points in the team's loss to Penn State on Dec. 18.
• Myers' back-to-back 20-point games were the first by a Dukes' player since Chassidy Omogrosso scored 20 or more in three-straight games near the end of the 2019 season.
• She ranks second on the Dukes in scoring with 11.9 ppg. and has knocked down more three-point shots through 15 games this season (41) than she did during the entire 16-game 2020-21 season (25).
• Myers ranks third in the A-10 and 38th in Division I with 2.7 three-point field goals made per game.
• She also slots second in the A-10 with a 38.0 three-point field goal percentage.

LIKE FATHER, LIKE DAUGHTER

• Tess's father, Joey starred at Duquesne from 1980-83 playing for two NIT teams. He scored 831 points as a career .455 shooter. The 6-8 forward was one of the top shooting big men in the Atlantic 10 and had the nickname "Sonar Joey Myers" for his range.
• He played in the pre-3-point era until his senior season, where he moved inside as one of the big men Duquesne had (5-13 3PT). He was drafted by the New Jersey Nets in the eighth round (179th overall).

BENCH BOOST

• Fatou Pouye continues to provide a spark off of the bench for the Dukes.
• After averaging just 5.0 points as a starter in the first two games of the season at UCF and Tulsa, Pouye has come off of the bench and averaged 15.3 points through the past 12 games in which she has played.
• Pouye posted her fourth-career 20-point game when she scored a career-high 31 points in a loss at Kent State on Dec. 8.
• The Western Kentucky graduate transfer currently leads the team and ranks 12th in the A-10 with 13.8 ppg.
• Pouye also leads the team shooting 50.0 percent from the field (73 of 146) and is second on the team with a 37.1 three-point field goal percentage (13-of-35) this season.

CLOSE ONLY COUNTS IN HORSESHOES

• The Dukes are winless in the seven games in which they trailed heading into the fourth quarter.
• Duquesne erased second half deficits of 19 points at Longwood and 10 points versus Penn State, but came up short late in each of those games.
• The Dukes trailed by as many as 13 in the third quarter at Kent State, before drawing back to within one with three minutes to play in that game. Kent State held on for a five-point win.
• Duquesne also mounted a second-half rally after trailing by as many as 23 points at Richmond. The Dukes drew within five points of the Spiders in the closing minutes, before eventually losing by six.
• Although it trailed by 10 at one point, Duquesne held a two-point lead heading into the fourth quarter at VCU. The Rams eventually pulled out a four-point overtime win.

INSTANT IMPACT

• After missing the first 12 games, Amanda Kalin made her first appearance this season and led the team in scoring in their A-10 opener at Richmond on Jan. 1.
• Kalin was held scoreless in limited action at VCU and did not play in the team's win over St. Bonaventure.
• She started each of the first six games during the 2020-21 season, before suffering a season-ending leg injury at Dayton.
• Kalin led team with 15.5 points per game and scored in double figures four times at the time of her injury.
• She dropped a career-high 32 points on 11-of-17 shooting, including a career-best five three-point shots, at Toledo last season.
• Kalin was one of 23 players in the nation and the only A-10 player during the 2019-20 season to post a triple-double.
• She finished with 15 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in a win over La Salle.

GUARDS ON THE GLASS

• Guards Megan McConnell and Libby Bazelak lead the team in rebounding with 6.2 and 5.7 rpg., respectively.
• McConnell has hauled in at least six rebounds in each of the last five games. She has had three games with 10 or more rebounds this season, including a career-high 13 in the win over Lafayette on Nov. 14.
• Bazelak matched a season-high 10 rebounds in the team's loss at VCU. She has finished with five or more rebounds nine times this season.
• Bazelak also posted 10 rebounds in the team's win at Siena in November.

DO IT ALL MCCONNELL

• In addition to rebounds, Megan McConnell leads the team in both assists and steals per game and ranks third in scoring.
• She slots fourth in the A-10 with 4.3 assists and fourth with 2.3 steals per game.
• The Chartiers Valley product also ranks third on the team with 9.9 ppg.

DISHING OUT DIMES

• Duquesne has posted double-digit assist totals in each of the past 13 games, including 16 in each of its last two outings.
• The Dukes rank sixth in the A-10 with 13.9 assists per game.
• The team distributed a season-high 20 assists in the team's win over Canisius in December.

LOCK DOWN D

• In four of their six wins, the Dukes have held opponents to under 50 points and won by double digits.
• Duquesne held an opponent to under 50 points just once during the 2020-21 season (George Mason) and did not win any games last season by double digits.
• The 44 points allowed by Duquesne in their last game versus St. Bonaventure is the fewest points yielded by the squad since the Dukes limited the Bonnies to 39 on Jan. 30, 2020.

SEEING DOUBLE

• A Dukes player has notched a double-double three times this season, including two by guard Megan McConnell.
• McConnell posted 13 points and 10 rebounds versus Temple on Dec. 5, after registering her first-career double-double with 13 points and 13 rebounds on Nov. 14 versus Lafayette.
• She was just one-point shy of a third double-double when she finished with nine points and a season-high 10 assists versus Canisius on Dec. 1.
• Fatou Pouye notched her first double-double with the Dukes and fourth overall when she finished with 25 points and 10 rebounds at Longwood on Nov. 17.
• Duquesne players only had two double doubles during the entire 2020-21 season.

SOLE 1K

• Laia Sole scored her 1,000th career point in the team's loss at Kent State on Dec. 8.
• Sole has scored 718 points as a member of the Dukes. Before transferring to Duquesne, she was the 2016-17 America East Sixth Man of the Year as a freshman at Maine.
• She scored 318 points during her lone season with the Bears.
• Sole is only three rebounds away from reaching 500 for her career.

WELCOME BACK HALLE

• After missing each of the past two seasons, Halle Bovell made her season-debut for the Dukes vs. Pitt on Nov. 20.
• Prior to the game against Pitt, Bovell's last time on the floor in an actual game was on March 9, 2019 in an A-10 Championship Semifinal loss to Fordham at the A.J. Palumbo Center.
• She appeared in 32 games with nine starts for the Dukes in the 2018-19 season.
• Bovell went 987 days between appearances on the floor for the Dukes.

ONE MILESTONE DOWN

• Libby Bazelak became the first player since Paige Cannon in 2019 to reach 500 career rebounds when she pulled in the milestone board in the team's game versus Pitt in November.
• Bazelak, who is currently second all-time in school history with a .384 three-point field goal percentage, is only 37 points away from becoming the 31st 1,000-point scorer in school history.