G22 | FORDHAM (10-12, 3-6) at DUQUESNE (6-15, 1-8)       
Sat., Feb. 12, 2022 • 5:30 pm ET • Pittsburgh, Pa. • UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse (3,500)

TV: CBSSN with Tom McCarthy & Pete Gillen
RADIO: 104.7 HD2 / iHeartRadio with Ray Goss ('58) & Jarrett Durham ('71)

Duquesne (6-15, 1-8), returns home for the first time since Feb. 1 to host Fordham (10-12, 3-7) at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 12. The game, which will be televised nationally by CBSSN with Tom McCarthy and Pete Gillen on the call, completes the home-and-home series between the two.

Fordham got a layup from Antonio Daye Jr. with four seconds left to take the first meeting, 72-71, at the Rose Hill Gym on Jan. 12. Daye's layup followed a Duquesne missed one-and-one free throw attempt with nine seconds on the clock.

The Fordham game begins a stretch of three games in five days for the Dukes who are at Davidson Monday and host GW on Wednesday (both rescheduled games). This is the first time since 2000-01 that the Dukes are playing at least nine games in February (DU still has one A-10 game, vs. George Mason, yet to be rescheduled).

The Dukes are looking to snap an eight-game losing streak against a Fordham team that is 2-7 on the road, including a 1-5 mark in A-10 road games.

TRENDING

• Junior F/C Austin Rotroff, a key contributor off the bench, is out 4-6 weeks with a foot injury. He averaged 7.0 rebounds in 18 min/g. in the four games prior to the Jan. 20 announcement. DU, who is already without frontcourt transfer R.J. Gunn Jr. (preseason ankle injury), is 0-7 without Rotroff.
• DU, which was averaging 70.6 ppg. at the time of Rotroff's injury, is averaging 56.4 ppg. in seven games without him (52, 56, 61, 53, 57, 62 & 54 points).
• The Dukes are averaging 60.4 ppg. on .400 shooting in conference play.
• Duquesne ranks fourth nationally in fewest fouls per game (13.2). Only three schools (New Hampshire, St. Bonaventure and Western Kentucky) have committed fewer total fouls than DU's 278.
• Duquesne's 12 turnovers/g. are tied for third-fewest in school history. The school record low of 11.0 was set in 2013-14.
• Second-year freshman Toby Okani has led the Dukes in rebounding in two of the past four games. He had eight boards and a career high-tying three steals at VCU.
• First-year Indiana State transfer Tre Williams scored a season-high 19 points at VCU on 9-of-13 shooting and followed that with a team-high 12 points at Dayton. The 6-7 Williams leads the Dukes with 47 blocked shots.
• First-year TCU transfer Kevin Easley Jr. has scored in double digits a team-high 16 times.
• Second-year freshman Tyson Acuff, who leads the Dukes with a .458 (22-of-48) 3-point pct, shot 294 (10-of-34) from the arc last season.
• According to KenPom.com Duquesne ranks 354th of 358 Division I teams in the "experience" category (thru Feb. 9). Fellow A-10 member Dayton ranks 358th.

DUKES AND RAMS
Series Record: Duquesne leads 28-17
At Pittsburgh: Duquesne leads 14-7
At Bronx: Duquesne leads 13-8
Neutral Site: Fordham leads 2-1
A-10 Regular Season: Duquesne leads 21-14
A-10 Championship: Fordham leads 1-0
Dambrot vs. Fordham: 7-2

• This is the 46th game in a series that dates to Dec. 22, 1949. Duquesne leads 28-17. In games played in Pittsburgh, the Dukes lead 14-7. DU had a six-game series streak snapped by a 72-71 Fordham win at Rose Hill Gym on Jan. 12. The six-game win streak matched the longest by either team in the series.
• Six of the past seven meetings between the Dukes and Rams have been single-digit affairs, with three of the past five decided by three or fewer points.
• This is the sixth consecutive season the two are playing home-and-home. The two split the regular-season series in 2017 & 2018, prior to DU sweeps in 2019, 2020 & 2021.
• Duquesne is 21-14 against the Rams in Atlantic 10 regular-season play.
• Keith Dambrot is 7-2 against Fordham with all nine meetings coming while at Duquesne.

First Meeting this year:  Fordham 72, Duquesne 71 at Bronx, N.Y. on Jan. 12


LAST GAME
Dayton 75, Duquesne 54
Feb. 9, 2022 • UD Arena • Dayton, Ohio
Game 21 Recap

• Dayton shot 60 percent and held Duquesne to 40 percent in the win.
• Tre Williams (12 points) and freshman guards Jackie Johnson III (11) and Primo Spears (10) scored in double digits for the Dukes.
• DU was outscored 50-26 in the paint.
• Duquesne's 54 points were two shy of its season low set in a 72-52 loss to the Flyers in Pittsburgh on Jan. 15.
• Dayton's largest lead was 30, at 60-30, with 10:35 left ... Duquesne's largest lead was four, the last of which came at 12-8 with 12:54 left in the first half ... there were zero ties and eight lead changes before Dayton took the lead for good on an R.J. Blakney jumper that made it 20-19 with 8:44 left in the first half ... Dayton led for 34:43 ... Duquesne led for 4:55.