Dae Dae will now be playing in Spain’s premier league, known as Liga ACB. The team is Peña Breogán. As far as I can tell, Peña must just be a sponsor, and Breogan is the actual city and name of the club. The team is located in the Galicia region of Spain which is interesting because the team’s social media posts are in Galician, not Spanish.

https://x.com/duqmbb/status/1870121927093719546?s=46

https://x.com/penhabreogan/status/1870039186272608397?s=46

Tip-off Saturday 12/21, 2:30 PM EST at the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, after the women's game vs. Bowling Green at noon.

Coverage on ESPN+
Radio: 104.7 HD2 with Ray Goss and Noah Buono

KenPom (364 D1 Programs):
#204 Duquesne (3-8)
#60 UC Irvine (10-1) D1 Wins vs. #177 Loyola Marymount, #93 Northern Iowa, #251 Pepperdine, #218 Weber State, #190 Kennesaw State, #117 Kent State, #226 Towson, #229 Cal State Bakersfield, and #135 Belmont. Loss vs. #63 Oregon State. 

Haslametrics:
#208 Duquesne - 60
#60 UC Irvine - 71
https://haslametrics.com/preview.php?yr=&tid1=623&tid2=4391&neut=0

BartTorvik:
#189 Duquesne - 63
#73 UC Irvine - 68
https://www.barttorvik.com/trank.php?&year=2025&t1l=UC+Irvine&t2l=Duquesne#

Duquesne Preview:
https://goduquesne.com/news/2024/12/20/mens-basketball-three-game-homestand-opens-vs-uc-irvine.aspx

UC Irvine Preview:
https://ucirvinesports.com/news/2024/12/18/mens-basketball-uc-irvine-faces-east-coast-tests-at-belmont-duquesne.aspx
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRwRWdeqM3g

Judge Jack Mcvay joined Rudy, Bob, and Nick this episode!

Offers from Florida State, Minnesota, Texas A&M, St. Bonaventure, South Florida, FGCU, and New Orleans. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTWM9eG4Kbk&t=327s

This just popped up on my YouTube.  This is a couple games outdated, CalDuke, whenever episodes come out keep posting them on here!

Anybody else listening to Ray and Noah? 34-19 at half.

Listen here:
https://foxsportspgh.iheart.com

Spread is Duquesne -6.5 o/u 132.5. (ESPN)

Jimmy just set the regular-season single-game steals record for the Israeli Winner League. 9 steals.

https://x.com/winnerleague/status/1865720708443054182?s=46

Dru Joyce Postgame:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KgFDVPAxRU

Highly enjoyed this article.

https://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2024/12/05/michalowski-its-time-to-watch-duquesne-womens-basketball/

HookShot wrote:

Well coached game. Made defensive adjustments. Moved the ball on offense. Made big plays. Monster game for “THE Jet.”

The way the coaching staff interacts with the team is so fascinating. Today Burt did more one on one coaching throughout the game to the girls regarding the adjustments they should be making whereas assistant Rick Bell was talking to the whole team during later timeouts. Great work by the assistants as well wrapping up loose ends. Seems like a well oiled machine. 

CLK wrote:

FAM it is not true that DU could not hire another successful head coach, I had heard that when Dambrot announced that he was going to retire that Harper received interest in the job from several successful head coaches.  You may also recall the rumor discussed on this board about Bob Huggins calling Harper, Later I heard he was not calling for himself but for Jared Calhoun, the head coach for Youngstown State at that time. I am not stating this as fact, just what I heard.  The point is that just about everyone on this board bought into the dream that if we hired Dru that Bronny would come to Duquesne and LeBron would pour money into the program, The voices became louder when Dambrot said that Dru should be hired., and this put tremendous pressure on Harper when he didn't announce Dru right away.  

At this point I am not saying that this was a wrong decision. If you hire someone with no head coaching experience, you have to be patient and expect some growing pains.  Sometimes it works out like Marcus Freeman, and sometimes it doesn't like Darell Porter.  We need to support Coach Dru and hope he can turn this around soon,  

BTW, Jared Calhoun went to Utah State and is 7-0. and has an NET of 14.  

Good points. He is still trying to find his demeanor on the sideline. I am not sure of the style his father and brother coach but there have been the comments about Joyce being a more modern coach without the theatrics. As if he would be a coach players want to play for since he will not have a screaming fit. Yesterday he was noticeably more animated on the sideline… but of course nowhere compared to Dambrot. There were the occasions of foul calls that he didn’t argue as mentioned above as well. I have confidence Coach will find a happy medium of fire and chillness that the players react to. Sometimes a group of 18-22 year olds need a jolt to get something lit under them. Yes, there were times KD was jumping and screaming and players