This is part of a deeper, underlying issue which I place (mostly) on the Pittsburgh media.  

Years ago, can't recall just how many (but at least more than  8), I contacted the PG sports department and asked them why such little or no coverage of Duquesne women's basketball and one of the writers told me (paraphrasing) "There is little interest in WBB.  If you begin drawing decent crowds to the games, more coverage will be there."  

There is a huge disparity of media coverage between men's and women's sports, or in many cases, between professional and college sports because (according to the media outlets), that is where the fan interest is.  Problem is even worse than cities like Los Angeles where the UCLA women's team - doing fairly well lately- gets almost zero coverage and USC gets zero. Same for Atlanta and Georgia Tech- a good ACC team this season. Exceptions are places like the San Francisco Chronicle where Stanford and Cal. get consistently good coverage.  All women's teams in major metro areas (with a few exceptions), get little coverage.

But some of the blame must be put on Duquesne's sports marketing department - who have had no clue in promoting Dan's program.  Years ago I provided a strategic plan to help bring fans into the Palumbo, but nothing happened with it.  You need to draw 2,000+ to get traction.  A fan club could help, but even that idea was not supported.

Sorry