G18 | DUQUESNE (12-5, 2-2) at SAINT JOSEPH'S (6-9, 0-3)        
Wed., Jan. 11, 2023 • 7:00 pm ET • Philadelphia, Pa. • Hagan Arena (4,200)

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Duquesne (12-5, 2-2), coming off a tough 75-73 loss at Richmond, heads to Philadelphia to take on Saint Joseph's (6-9, 0-3) on Wednesday, Jan. 11 at 7:00 p.m. (ESPN+).

The Dukes are 0-3 on the road with losses at then-No. 4 (AP) Kentucky (in front of a crowd of 20,014), at A-10 preseason favorite Dayton (sellout/13,407) and at Richmond (sellout/7,201).

R.J. Gunn led five Dukes in double figures with 16 points in the loss at UR. DU hit 12-straight shots, nine of which were 3-pointers (from six players), in a 7:27 span in building a 49-34 halftime lead, before shooting .273 in the second 20 minutes at UR. A Richmond 3-pointer with :07 left was the difference.

Saint Joe's, coming off a 66-54 loss at Fordham, is looking for its first conference win. The Hawks are 5-3 at home with a tight 83-78 loss to Saint Louis in A-10 play. SJU is averaging 77.1 ppg. and shooting .378 from 3-point at home (as opposed to 69.5 & .326 in both categories in all games).

The Dukes are looking to post their first road win since Jan. 8, 2022 (78-74 at UMass; a span of 11 games).

TRENDING

• This is the second of three-straight road games for DU, which follows the Saint Joseph's game with one at St. Bonaventure. It is the longest road streak of the season for the Dukes.
• Duquesne has had its complete roster intact for one game this season (12/28 at Dayton).
• Duquesne's opponents have made three more free throws (53-80) than DU has attempted (33-50) through four A-10 games.
• DU has played before a crowd of 20,014 (at Kentucky) and sellouts at both Dayton (13,407) and Richmond (7,201) in its three road games (that's a 13,541/g. average).
• DU, which averaged 65.2 ppg. last year, is averaging 75.1 ppg. (+9.9 ppg.). The Dukes have topped the 90-point mark three times and are 11-2 when scoring 70 or more.
• DU's assists per game average is up +5.2/g. from last year (from 10.0 to 15.2).
• DU's .370 3-point pct. is its best under Keith Dambrot (current best is .350 in 2017-18).
• Guard Dae Dae Grant, who has scored in double digits in 14 of 17 games, has four games with five or more 3-pointers. He ranked 25th nationally in 3-pointers/g. (3.06) and T11th in 3-point FGs (52) thru Jan. 7. Grant went over the 1,400-point career mark  on Dec. 21 vs. Winthrop.
• Guard Jimmy Clark III, who scored 130 points in 33g as a freshman & sophomore at VCU, has scored 213 points in 17g at Duquesne. Clark III, who has scored in double digits in DU's past 10 games - including a career-best 26 vs. VCU - entered the season having never scored more than nine points in a D-I game. Clark leads the A-10 with 35 steals.
• Tevin Brewer has handed out a team-high 50 assists despite missing four games due to injuries. His 3.8 assist/turnover ratio is best in the A-10 and his .472 3-point pct. (17-of-36) ranks second in the conference.
• Grad student R.J. Gunn, who missed 10 games with a foot injury (returned on Dec. 28 at Dayton), is 10-of-19 from 3-point in his past three games. He is coming off a Duquesne career high 16-point game at Richmond.
• Freshman Kareem Rozier has come off the bench to lead, or tie for the team lead, in assists four times. Rozier has 32 assists and 10 turnovers this season (3.2-to-1 ratio).

DUKES AND HAWKS
Series Record: Saint Joseph's leads 42-17
At Pittsburgh: Saint Joseph's leads 16-11
At Philadelphia: Saint Joseph's leads 22-4
Neutral Site: Saint Joseph's leads 4-2
A-10 Reg. Season: Saint Joseph's leads 36-15
A-10 Championship: Saint Joseph's leads 4-1
Dambrot vs. Saint Joseph's: 3-3

• This is the 60th game in a series that dates back to Feb. 25, 1938. Saint Joseph's leads the series 42-17, including a 22-4 advantage in games played in Philadelphia. Duquesne has won two of the past four at Hagan Arena, with SJU taking a 72-61 home win last year. Tre Williams is the only member of the current roster who played in that game.
• What was once a lopsided series has tightened considerably over the past 15 years. The Dukes, who lost 16 of 17 to SJU from 1994 through 2007, have won eight of the past 17 with three of the losses coming in overtime. DU has won five of the past nine and three of six vs. the Hawks under current coach Keith Dambrot.
• Duquesne's 18-point margin of victory (78-60) at Saint Joe's in 2020 was its third-largest in the series and most since a 96-70 win over the Hawks in an A-10 Championship game at the Palestra on Mar. 3, 1990. DU followed that with a 67-50 "home" win in 2021 at La Roche U.
• Saint Joseph's was picked to finish 13th in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll of league coaches and media, two spots ahead of Duquesne.

WORTH NOTING

• It took the 2022-23 Dukes - with a roster that features 10 newcomers (five transfers and five freshmen) - just eight games to exceed last year's win total (6-24). The Dukes opened 7-1.
• Duquesne, picked to finish 15th of 15 teams in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll, tied the school record for November wins set in 2008 and matched in 2020 (both 6-0). DU went 6-1 in November, with the lone loss coming at No. 4 (AP) Kentucky.
• This was just the fourth time in program history - and second time under Keith Dambrot - that the Dukes entered Atlantic 10 play with 10 wins (10-3). The others: 2007-08 (10-3), 2015-16 (10-3) & 2019-20 (10-2).
• Duquesne's 66-55 win over DePaul on Dec. 14 was the program's first over a Big East school since an 86-82 victory over West Virginia on Nov. 25, 2002 at A.J. Palumbo Center. The margin of victory was DU's largest over a Power 6 school since a 78-52 win over Penn State (Big Ten) at CONSOL Energy Center on Nov. 20, 2015 (under Jim Ferry).
• Eleven Dukes (Brewer, Clark III, Dixon, Grant, Gunn, Hronsky, McGriff, Reece, Rotroff, Rozier & Williams) posted double-digit scoring games.
• DU has erased first half deficits of 14 (vs. Ball State, down 18-4) and 16 points (vs. Indiana State, down 20-4) to win this season. The Dukes have 19 double-digit comeback wins under Keith Dambrot (all have come in the past four seasons).
• DU jumped out to a 20-0 lead (and led 29-2) in its 74-57 win over Winthrop on Dec. 21. The 20-0 run is the best by a Dambrot-coached Dukes team.
• The 2022-23 Dukes, who inherited a 16-game Atlantic 10 regular season losing streak, put an end to that skid in their second conference game (a 72-61 New Year's Eve win over Rhode Island). The Rhody win also snapped an eight-game A-10 home skid. DU is looking to end an 11-game road losing streak (including 10-straight A-10 road defeats) .

LAST GAME: RICHMOND 75, DUQUESNE 73
Jan. 7, 2022 • Robins Center • Richmond, Va.

• Tevin Brewer's contested running layup rolled off the rim at the final horn as the Dukes fell to the Spiders before a sellout crowd at Robins Center.
• Brewer gave the Dukes a one-point lead on a floater in the lane at the 21 second mark, only to see UR's Jason Roche hit a wing 3-pointer with :07 left.
• RJ Gunn led five Dukes in double figures with a season high 16 points. Brewer had 10 points and a game-high eight assists in 30 turnover-free minutes.
• DU hit 12-straight shots, nine of which were 3-pointers (from six players), in a 7:27 span in building a 49-34 halftime lead.
• Richmond outscored Duquesne 41-24 in the second half, as the Dukes shot 62 percent in the first half and 27 percent in the second.
• DU, who had both Jimmy Clark III and Joe Reece foul out, was outscored 20-8 from the free throw line. Richmond went 20-of-30 from the stripe while the Dukes went 8-of-9.
• Duquesne was without injured forward Tre Williams who had started DU's previous 16 games.
• It was the second time in the past six games that the Dukes had five double digit scorers.
• Duquesne's largest lead was 22, at 47-25, with 3:45 left in the first half ... Richmond's largest lead was five, at 66-61, with 5:45 left ... there were six ties and 11 lead changes ... Richmond took the lead for good on Jason Roche's 3-pointer with :07 left ... Richmond led for 12:12 ... Duquesne led for 25:11.