Duquesne category, Page 36
Keith Dambrot leads Duquesne into final six games of `draining’ seasonVideo
After the game has been over for hours and the janitor has swept up the last bit of spilled popcorn from the bleachers, one light stays lit inside Palumbo Center. After losses, anyway. Keith Dambrot is still at work in his office, trying to figure out what went wrong, guarding...
Duquesne falls at La Salle on late layup
PHILADELPHIA — Pookie Powell scored the last two of his team-high 25 points on a driving layup with five seconds left as La Salle edged Duquesne, 73-72, on Wednesday night. Powell made 4 of 6 3-pointers. David Beatty had 15 points for La Salle (8-15, 6-5 Atlantic 10). Isiah Deas...
Keith Dambrot hopes defense will carry Dukes through tough stretchVideo
Keith Dambrot doesn’t get upset when his team has trouble making shots. He just orders more shooting drills in practice. But Duquesne’s coach has no patience for shoddy defense. There’s no drill for that. Plus, he believes defense is what will keep the Dukes (16-8, 7-4) competitive through the rest...
Weathers, Hughes post double-doubles as balanced Duquesne tops Fordham
NEW YORK — Marcus Weathers had 16 points and 12 rebounds to lead five Duquesne players in double figures as the Dukes beat Fordham, 74-66, on Saturday. Sincere Carry added 14 points for the Dukes. Eric Williams Jr. chipped in 12, Michael Hughes scored 11 and Tavian Dunn-Martin had 10....
Duquesne rally falls short against St. Bonaventure
Kyle Lofton scored 16 points, Osun Osunniyi grabbed a career-high 22 rebounds with six blocks and St. Bonaventure held on to defeat Duquesne, 51-49, on Wednesday night. After Osunniyi missed the front end of a 1-and-1 with 23 seconds left and the Bonnies up 50-49, he responded by blocking a...
Banged-up Duquesne trying to stay in thick of Atlantic 10 race
Problems continue to mount for Duquesne, but so far the Dukes have shown the ability to take a punch and keep going. The most recent issue emerged Monday, two days after a 68-64 loss at Dayton. It was the Dukes’ second in three games after winning five in a row....
Duquesne loses lead, game at Dayton
DAYTON, Ohio — Obi Toppin scored a career-high 26 points, Jalen Crutcher added 16 and Dayton turned back Duquesne, 68-64, in a showdown for third place in the Atlantic 10 Conference on Saturday. Crutcher hit three 3-pointers and combined with Toppin to go 10 of 16 from the field as...
Dukes creeping toward 1st place, but tough games on the horizon
Nearly halfway into the Atlantic 10 season, Duquesne finds itself among four teams bunched at the top of the standings, all separated by no more than a game. If coach Keith Dambrot had time to look (unlikely), he might have shrugged his shoulders and resumed preparations for Saturday’s game at...
Hampton connection helps Duquesne swimmers to success
Call it a happy coincidence Duquesne swimming boasts three Hampton graduates. The Dukes swim team sure does. Senior Kristen McKnight and sophomore Clare Flanagan swim, and freshman diver Adrienne White are part of a roster that features 28 swimmers and divers, and no other high school has more than two...
Duquesne rallies from 19 down to beat Rhode Island, 75-72
After Keith Dambrot was finished trying to explain Duquesne’s hard-to-believe 75-72 victory against Rhode Island, he knew what he had to do next. “I’m going to go take a nap now,” the Dukes coach said. He was tired, pleased and amazed all at the same time. Duquesne (15-6, 6-2 Atlantic...
Duquesne aiming for quick turnaround vs. Rhode IslandVideo
There are too many games left in Duquesne’s season to say the Dukes will reach a crossroads Wednesday night against Rhode Island at Palumbo Center. But the Dukes (14-6, 5-2) have the same record (overall and in the Atlantic 10) as they did a year ago before they lost 10...
Short-handed Duquesne falls to VCU, 5-game winning streak snapped
Overstating the importance of Sincere Carry’s absence from the Duquesne men’s basketball team Saturday at Palumbo Center would be difficult. Dukes coach Keith Dambrot beat everyone to the punch following the Dukes’ 80-74 loss to VCU. Dambrot made sure to put a qualifier in front of the comparison to avoid...
Duquense women’s basketball alum to have jersey retired
The Duquesne athletic department will retire women’s basketball alum April Robinson’s No. 32 jersey on Sunday before the Dukes’ Atlantic 10 Conference game against George Washington at the A.J. Palumbo Center. Robinson, a 2016 graduate, finished her career as the captain of a Duquesne squad that recorded 28 victories and...
Dukes coach Keith Dambrot: Nobody ‘respects Duquesne yet’
Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot thinks he knows what the rest of the Atlantic 10 thinks of his team. And it doesn’t have a lot to do with the Dukes’ record (14-5, 5-1). “I don’t think anybody respects Duquesne yet,” he said. “They just think we played some home games (11-1...
Keith Dambrot calls it: ‘LeBron’s better than Zion’
After he had answered all the mundane questions about Duquesne’s 77-73 victory against Saint Louis on Wednesday night, coach Keith Dambrot fielded one on his second-favorite subject — LeBron James. “What would be a bigger deal?” a reporter wanted to know. “Jay-Z going to a Pitt game or LeBron going...
Duquesne beats 1st-place Saint Louis, extends A-10 winning streak to 5
The coaches and media of the Atlantic 10 conducted their preseason poll back in September, when few people were giving Duquesne a second thought. Four months later, the vote that projected Duquesne as an 11th-place team and Saint Louis as the conference champion mattered to Duquesne sophomore Marcus Weathers. Especially...
Surging Duquesne set for 1st-place Saint Louis
Keith Dambrot, Duquesne’s 60-year-old coach, has been in too many games (672 in 21 seasons) to be fooled by something as unimportant as January’s conference standings. So when reporters and TV cameras arrived for practice Wednesday to chronicle the good news on the Bluff — the third-place Dukes are 13-5...
Duquesne football player Kellon Taylor stays on basketball team, but only for practices
Kellon Taylor reached a unique arrangement with Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot that keeps him on the men’s basketball team – but only at practice. “Kellon made a personal business decision,” Dambrot said. “He just wanted to practice, just to stay in shape for football and put all his eggs into...
Career game from Michael Hughes carries Duquesne to OT win at George Washington
WASHINGTON — Michael Hughes scored 21 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked seven shots — all career highs — and Duquesne defeated George Washington, 91-85, in overtime on Sunday. Hughes also scored the layup with 5.2 seconds left in regulation to tie the score at 77. In overtime, Sincere Carry...
Freshman PG Sincere Carry pivotal part of Duquesne’s early success this season
Duquesne has prevailed down the stretch of tight games this season, winning all three one-point decisions it has been involved in and going 5-1 in those decided by five or fewer points. Ask coach Keith Dambrot why, the first player he mentions is a freshman. “We have a good point...
Duquesne looks to continue hot start in Atlantic 10
It wasn’t just a 25-year hex that Duquesne’s most recent victory exorcized. It allowed the program to achieve another milestone for the first time in school history. The Dukes’ 74-68 win Wednesday was their first at Richmond since Dec. 20, 1993. Although the tangible value of that particular accomplishment can...
‘Not a signature win’: Dambrot, Duquesne shoot higher than just (finally) beating Richmond
Over the past quarter century, many Duquesne fans had come down with a case of arachnophobia. When the Dukes saw Spiders, bad things happened. Keith Dambrot’s Dukes finally eradicated their personal pests with a 74-68 win at the Richmond Spiders on Wednesday, Duquesne’s first at Richmond since Dec. 20, 1993,...
Duquesne earns 1st win in Richmond in 25 years
RICHMOND, Va. — Sincere Carry scored 21 points with six assists and Duquesne won at Richmond for the first time in over 25 years, taking a 74-68 victory over the Spiders on Wednesday night. Frankie Hughes added 15 points on five 3-pointers and Marcus Weathers had 12 points, nine rebounds...
Duquesne rallies then holds off St. Joseph’s
PITTSBURGH — Michael Hughes had 17 points and eight rebounds, and Duquesne overcame a 15-point deficit to beat Saint Joseph’s, 85-84, on Saturday at Palumbo Center. The Dukes (11-5, 2-1 Atlantic 10) went on an 11-2 run to lead 82-75 on Hughes’ pair of free throws with 44 seconds left...
Duquesne coach Dambrot wants more commitment from players
Keith Dambrot doesn’t believe coaching Duquesne’s basketball team is the same as beating his head against a wall, but he’s prepared in any case. He is hard-headed enough to keep pushing his team toward its potential, even if the players insist on going kicking and screaming. When Dambrot was a...
