BRONX, NY - Joe Reece scored a team-high 16 for Duquesne (20-11, 10-8) in an 87-60 defeat at Fordham (24-7, 12-6) on Saturday afternoon before a sellout Senior Day crowd at the Rams' Rose Hill Gym.

David Dixon added 11 points for the Dukes who shot 33 percent from the field, including 3-of-22 from the 3-point arc.

The win was the 18th in 20 home games for Fordham.

Duquesne was in control early and led 30-29 when R.J. Gunn was called for a foul and then was assessed a technical foul after getting tangled up with the Rams' Darius Quisenberry.

Quisenberry, who scored 21, hit all four free throws and Khalid Moore, who finished with a game-high 24, converted a three-point play on the ensuing possession, giving the Rams seven points and a 36-30 lead before Duquesne got the ball back.

The possession started a half-ending 16-2 run for the Rams, who led 45-32 at intermission.

Duquesne cut it to 11 early in the second half, before the Rams sandwiched a pair of Quisenberry 3-pointers around a Rostik Novitskyi dunk to take a 59-39 lead with just under 13 minutes left.

Fordham upped the advantage to 73-47 with just over 10 minutes to go.

The Dukes went 0-of-11 from the arc in the second half.

The official bracket for the 2023 Atlantic 10 Championship will be released by the conference office at the conclusion of Saturday's games. This year's Championship will take place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center from March 7-12.

NOTES

• This is the eighth time Duquesne finished with a winning conference record in 46 Atlantic 10 seasons (10-8). Head coach Keith Dambrot has accomplished the feat three times (10-8 in 2019 & 11-7 in 2020 are the others).
• This was the 11th double-digit scoring game for Joe Reece who finished with 16. Reece has reached double digits in three of the Dukes' past five games.
• This was David Dixon's fifth double-digit scoring game (11 points). Dixon had 13 on Wednesday vs. UMass.
• Duquesne's three 3-pointers (3-of-22) tied its season low set in the first meeting with Fordham (3-of-16).  
• Duquesne's largest lead was eight, at 25-17, with 8:36 left in the first half ... Fordham's largest lead was 29, at 78-49, with 7:28 left  ... there were four ties and three lead changes in the game ... Fordham took the lead for good on a Darius Quisenberry free throw that made that made it 31-30 with 3:44 left in the first half ... Fordham led for 24:06 ... Duquesne led for 13:51.