PITTSBURGH - Dae Dae Grant scored a game-high 23 points as Duquesne (5-1) used a 14-0 second-half run to pull away for a 75-57 win over Alabama State (0-6) on Wednesday night at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse.

Quincy McGriff scored eight of his 11 points during the decisive run. Austin Rotroff posted his first career double-double (12-10) and added a career-high four blocks off the bench to help Duquesne up its win streak to four.

Freshman David Dixon had five blocks for the Dukes, who finished with a season-high 11 rejections.

Duquesne led 27-25 late in the first half, before Grant - who had 13 in the first 20 minutes - began a 10-3 run with a 3-pointer. Jimmy Clark III buried another 3-pointer at the first half horn to give DU its largest lead at 37-28.

Neither team led by more than four prior to Grant's 3-pointer.

Duquesne took its first double-digit lead on a pair of Grant free throws that made it 41-30 early in the second half.

DU led 44-39, before McGriff ignited a 14-0 run with a 3-pointer. The first-year JC transfer found Grant on the baseline for a layup and followed with a jumper and 3-pointer to end the run that made it 58-39 with 10 minutes left.

ASU never got closer than 16 the rest of the way.

The Dukes outshot the Hornets 46.4 percent to 31.1 percent.

Duquesne will be idle until UC Santa Barbara visits UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse on Tuesday, Nov. 29 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+).

NOTES

• The Dukes are one win away from matching last season's victory (6-24) total.
•  The Dukes finished with 11 blocked shots, including five by David Dixon. The effort was four shy of the school record.
• Austin Rotroff posted his first career double-double (12-10). His 12 points were a season high. He also had a career-high four blocks in 27 minutes.
• Freshman Kareem Rozier came off the bench to hand out a team-high four assists, with zero turnovers, in 16 minutes. Rozier has 13 assists and one turnover in 80 minutes on the season.
• Duquesne is now 20-5 in non-conference home games since 2018-19.
• This was the second of nine-straight home games for the Dukes.
• Forwards Joe Reece (injured), R.J. Gunn (injured) and Kevin Easley (team suspension) were all not in uniform for the second-straight game. It was the third game in a row missed by Gunn and Easley.
• Duquesne's largest lead was 25, at 68-43, with 5:40 left ... Alabama State's largest lead was two, the last of which came at 17-15 with 8:26 left in the first half ... there were five ties and 10 lead changes before Austin Rotroff gave the Dukes the lead for good on a pair of free throws that made it 20-19 with 6:48 left in the first half ... Alabama State led for 2:28 ... Duquesne led for 35:09.