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The Duquesne women’s basketball team will enter familiar territory after landing a berth in the WNIT for the 11th time and second year in a row. Duquesne will host a first-round contest against Longwood at 6 p.m. Thursday at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. The winner will advance to face Miami (Ohio)...

Dru Joyce III grew up with a basketball in his hand. He’s played the game as a slick point guard at every level, and his father and brother are basketball coaches. Joyce won state championships in high school alongside future NBA superstar LeBron James, to this day among his closest...

Duquesne begins defense of its Atlantic 10 Tournament men’s basketball championship Thursday with an early-bird matchup against a familiar foe. The ninth-seeded Dukes (13-18) and No. 8 St. Bonaventure (21-10) will meet for the 137th time dating to 1920 in a first-round game at 11:30 a.m. at Capital One Arena...

It was some early madness. From the start Saturday night, Duquesne and Saint Louis weren’t about to concede. But somebody had to win. Gibson Jimerson scored a career-high 35 points, Robbie Avila added 22 — including a key 3-point shot with 36 seconds left in overtime — and Saint Louis...

The Duquesne women bowed out of the Atlantic 10 Tournament on Friday, losing a 63-58 decision to No. 1 seed Richmond in a quarterfinal game in Glen Allen, Va. But the No. 9 Dukes (19-12) put a scare into the Spiders. Richmond (27-5) took a 49-41 lead into the fourth...

Duquesne women’s basketball set the tone early Thursday in its second-round game of the Atlantic 10 Tournament and was never challenged in a 79-63 victory against Fordham. The No. 9-seeded Dukes (19-11) held No. 8 Fordham (15-15) scoreless for 7 minutes, 24 seconds of the first quarter and took a...

The world of women’s college basketball started noticing Duquesne senior guard Megan McConnell before the season, and now she’s on the threshold of one of the sport’s top honors. McConnell, a Chartiers Valley graduate, is one of the five finalists for the 2025 Becky Hammon Mid-Major Player of the Year...

The league’s top team was facing the defending Atlantic 10 champs. Virginia Commonwealth had revenge on its mind. But for a time Tuesday night, it was Duquesne that was looking like the better team, the fresher team, the hungrier team. “Early in the game, we were very disruptive,” Duquesne coach...

Duquesne senior Megan McConnell on Tuesday was named the Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year in women’s basketball. The Chartiers Valley product and a sister of Indiana Pacers guard T.J. McConnell also earned a place on the all-conference first team, defensive team and academic team. “We celebrate Meg and...

The Duquesne men’s basketball team just roasted the best defensive team in the Atlantic 10 on Saturday afternoon. Three nights later, they are tasked with doing the same thing again. Virginia Commonwealth University comes to UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse at 7 p.m. Tuesday atop the A-10 with a 24-5 record overall...

They made the old guys proud. On Senior Day and with members of Duquesne’s 1977 Atlantic 10 men’s basketball champions in the house, the current Dukes put on a championship-caliber show on Saturday at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. Tre Dinkins III scored 20 points, Cam Crawford added 16 and the duo...

Because last season for the men’s basketball team at Duquesne ended with such exhilarating high notes in March, it’s easy to forget where they were at the end of February. Exactly where they are this season. A year ago, Duquesne’s last game in February was a win over La Salle...

Duquesne reverted to a familiar playing style from last season’s Atlantic 10 championship team and won a men’s basketball game Wednesday night for just the second time on the road this season. That’s right, it wasn’t pretty. Taking a page from former coach Keith Dambrot’s guide to winning ugly, Tre...

They staged their 136th meeting in a men’s basketball series dating to 1920. St. Bonaventure is Duquesne’s most frequent all-time opponent. And get this: The average score in the first 135 games? Duquesne 71.6, St. Bonaventure 70.9, a difference of less than a point. The latest affair Saturday at Reilly...

PITTSBURGH — Abby McDermott has grown accustomed to the looks she gets whenever she starts talking to someone about her chosen sport. The slight turn of the head. The brief pause in the conversation. “When you say ‘acrobatics and tumbling,’ especially ‘acrobatics,’ people think of the circus,” McDermott said with...

David Dixon raised the roof multiple times Wednesday night at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse to the delight of a home Duquesne basketball crowd energized by the sounds of the Mt. Pleasant High School marching band, which was making a guest appearance alongside the Duquesne pep band. The Dukes, led by Dixon’s...

After Duquesne football turns back the clock and plays Pitt for the first time since 1939 on Aug. 30, the Dukes will confront a second FBS opponent when they travel to Akron of the Mid-American Conference on Sept. 20. The Dukes and Zips never have met. The game against Pitt...

This time, Duquesne came to play. Too bad for the Dukes that they came up just short. Three weeks after taking a 20-point beating from Dayton at home, Duquesne went into arguably the hardest venue in the Atlantic 10 and nearly came away Saturday with a victory. But a loss...

Duquesne’s last game against Dayton knocked the Dukes men’s basketball team off track. The Dukes (10-14, 5-6 Atlantic 10) see Saturday’s rematch as an opportunity to finally stay on track. “They beat us so bad at home the last time, I am taking that personally,” forward Jakub Necas said Thursday...

The way Duquesne’s Tre Dinkins III sees it, basketball is a pretty simple game. At any level. The 6-foot-2 guard from Chester seems to have played the game with ease everywhere he’s been. He was an all-Philadelphia Catholic League second-team player at Cardinal O’Hara. He was an NJCAA All-America third-team...

A 13-point victory? With the way Duquesne’s offense was broken, how did that happen? The Dukes went scoreless for nearly 7 1/2 minutes to open the second half Saturday, missing their first 11 shots along the way, yet they recovered on the strength of their defense and beat Loyola Chicago,...

Remember last season? Who could forget when Duquesne won the Atlantic 10 Tournament in men’s basketball and surged to its first NCAA Tournament in something like a million years? Remember that? It had been 47 seasons — the year was 1977, to be exact — since the Dukes made The...

Duquesne’s losing streak in men’s basketball reached five games Wednesday night. Jason Roche scored 14 points and Dusan Neskovic added 13, including a pair of free throws with 10 seconds left to seal the outcome, as Richmond handed Duquesne a 73-68 loss at Robins Center in Richmond, Va. Richmond led...

He’d counted on his teams’ ability to hold down opponents in the Big 12 at Kansas State and in the SEC at South Carolina, but even here in the Atlantic 10, Massachusetts coach Frank Martin tends to get defensive. Just ask Duquesne, which was held to a season-low in scoring...