GAME 24 | DUQUESNE (9-14, 4-7 A-10) at UMASS (19-5, 7-3 A-10)
Sun. Feb. 13, 2022 • 12 p.m.
Mullens Center (9,493), Amherst, Mass.
TV: CBS Sports Network

Duquesne will look to snap its three-game skid when it travels to take on Massachusetts on Sunday. The game will be televised nationally on CBS Sports Network. Check your local provider for channel listing and availability.

The Dukes are playing in a televised game for the first time since a 79-76 win over VCU on Feb. 2, 2020. Duquesne is 37-25 overall in televised games, including wins in six of their last eight on TV.
 
THE SERIES - vs. MASSACHUSETTS

• The Dukes hold the all-time series lead with 29 wins in the 53 meetings between the two programs.
• The Minutewomen have held the upper hand recently, winning three of the past four games, including each of the last two.
• The past three meetings have been each been decided by four points or less.
• Duquesne has lost each of the past two contests at the Mullens Center.
• The last time the Dukes left Amherst with a victory was a 60-57 win on Jan. 31, 2017.

LAST MEETING - Jan. 4, 2020

• The Dukes fell short in their comeback bid in an 81-77 loss to UMass at La Roche University's Kerr Fitness Center in the North Hills of Pittsburgh.
• Duquesne trailed by 18 points heading into the fourth quarter and went on to out-score the Minutewomen 26-12 over the final 10 minutes.
• Duquesne began the fourth quarter on a pivotal 13-0 sprint to cut the UMass lead to just five points at 69-64 in just two and a half minutes of game clock.
• UMass rebuilt its lead to as many as 11, before holding off the Dukes final push.
• Four different Dukes reached double-figures in scoring, led by Nina Aho and Libby Bazelak's 16 points.
• Laia Solé totaled 13 points, while Paige Cannon added 11 points.
• Five Minutewomen scored in double figures, led by a game-high Hailey Leidel. Sam Breen was just shy of a double-double with 16 points and nine boards.

SCOUTING UMASS

• The Minutewomen are among the top-five in the Atlantic 10 in most statistical categories.
• UMass is the highest-scoring team in the league at 71.4 ppg. and also slots third in field goal percentage (43 percent).
• The Minutewomen rank second in rebounds per game (41.5) and are third in both turnovers forced (16.17/game) and steals (8.0/game).
• UMass struggles at the free-throw line. The Minutewomen are 12th in the A-10 at just 66.4 percent from the charity stripe.
• UMass features two of the top scorers in the league in Sam Breen and Sydney Taylor.
• Breen ranks fifth in the A-10 with 16.4 ppg. also slots second with 10.8 rebounds per game.
• Taylor ranks ninth in the A-10 with 15.3 ppg. and is converting 2.39 three-point field goals per game (fourth in A-10).
• Taylor ranks fifth a 33.1 three-point field goal percentage.
• Destiney Philoxy leads the A-10 and ranks 26th in Division I with 5.4 assists per game.
• Breen, Taylor, Philoxy and Bre'Nyah Mayo each rank among the top-10 in the Atlantic 10 in minutes played per game.

LAST TIME OUT

• The Dukes were handed a 50-48 loss by George Washington Wednesday evening.
• Libby Bazelak was just shy of a double-double with 13 points and nine rebounds.
• Duquesne shot 14 of 59 (24 percent), including just 2-of-16 (12.5 percent) in the fourth quarter alone.
• The Dukes were 13 of 20 (65 percent) from the free-throw line, compared to the 10 of 12 (83 percent) showing by GW. The Colonials made 9-of-10 from the line in the fourth quarter.
• There were nine lead changes and six tie scores.

 

TROJANETTE TAKEOVER

• The leading scorers from both UMass and Duquesne attended the same high school.
• Minutewomen forward Sam Breen and Dukes guard Tess Myers are alumnae of North Catholic High School in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania located 20 miles north of Pittsburgh.
• The two played together for one season in 2016-17 when Breen was a senior for the Trojanettes and Myers was in her freshman season.
• The two helped North Catholic go 25-3 and win a Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) Championship.