PITTSBURGH - Fordham (11-12, 4-7), behind 18 points and 14 rebounds from Chuba Ohams, completed a sweep of the regular season home-and-home series with a 65-54 win over Duquesne (6-16, 1-9) at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse on Saturday.

The Rams held the Dukes to 36 percent shooting in posting their first back-to-back wins over the Dukes since 2007.

Tre Williams scored 12 points and added five blocks for Duquesne, which dropped its ninth in a row. Leon Ayers III  had 12 points and six rebounds and Jackie Johnson III added nine for DU.

Fordham held the Dukes scoreless for over four minutes in putting together an 11-0 run to take a 19-6 lead.

The Rams' lead reached 13 before DU cut it to 21-14 on a pair of Williams free throws.

Duquesne managed one field goal - a jumper by Davis Larson at 8:52 - from the 9:46 mark to the :22 mark, as Fordham took a 34-24 lead into the half.

The Dukes shot 30 percent in the opening 20 minutes.

Ayers III hit DU's first 3-pointer, after eight misses, to make it 43-33 with 15:49 left.

DU made it 51-44 on a Larson 3-pointer and had a chance to cut it to four when Kevin Easley Jr.'s 3-point attempt rimmed out moments later.

Fordham answered with back-to-back buckets to up the lead to 11 with 5:43 left.

Duquesne once again made it a seven-point game, this time on a Johnson III 3-pointer that made it 57-50.

Johnson III added another jumper to cut the lead to five, before Josh Colon-Navarro, who finished with 15 points, hit a 3-pointer at the 2:52 mark.

DU then turned it over and Colon-Navarro buried another 3-pointer at the shot clock buzzer to put it out of reach at 63-52 with 1:50 left.

Fordham, which shot 41 percent, outrebounded the Dukes 48-25.

Duquesne heads to North Carolina to face league-leading Davidson (20-4, 10-2) in the second of three games in five days on Monday, Feb. 14 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+). The Dukes will return home to host George Washington on Wednesday, Feb. 16 at 7:30 p.m. (ESPN+). The GW game will be preceded by the Duquesne women vs. Richmond at 5:00 p.m.

NOTES

• Davis Larson reached the 1,000-point mark with a jumper in the lane with 8:52 left in the first half. Larson, a first-year graduate student, totaled 991 points in four seasons at D-II Hillsdale. Larson, who came to DU as a graduate assistant, joined the Dukes' active roster in late September. Larson, who entered the game with eight points, finished with five in 15 minutes. He now has 1,004 career points.
• Tre Williams finished with 14 points and five blocks for the Dukes. It was his third game this season with five or more blocks. He had a season high-tying seven in the first meeting with Fordham on Jan. 12
• Fordham's largest lead was 13, the last of which came at 51-38, with 8:35 left ... Duquesne never led.