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Men's Basketball » Alumni Events in Omaha? » 3/20/2024 11:48 am

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Got my ticket through the athletic department allotment and got that package that includes the Friday watch party with food and drinks. Can’t really tell if that watch party is DU only or other fans. Didn’t see any emails about events. Anything going on this weekend in Omaha!

Men's Basketball » Pregame Party in Omaha at Dugout Sports Bar » 3/20/2024 11:44 am

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Damn. Got back to Portland from Vegas Monday night. Taking a red eye at midnight and landing in Omaha at 10:25. Luckily arena and hotels are a 6 minute drive from the airport. How about later?

Men's Basketball » When Will the Question of Coach's Status Be Addressed » 3/18/2024 5:56 pm

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Not to try to tell anyone “how it is”, but I don’t think older posters may realize the impact Joyce can have on this program. All of the recruiting draws and interest the Lebron relationship has garnered for Keith (exclusive Nike deal, new arena, credibility etc) will be doubled or tripled with Joyce. This is Lebrons childhood best friend. He is young, was a great player, and ran teams in the ncaa tourney and professionally in Europe. I don’t know if he can coach yet, but I expect the recruiting to take another significant jump under him and with this years success.

Kd loves him and seems to want to give him the platform. I think if Joyce becomes coach, we will see Lebron at a game. His ceiling to me is enormous and he has been here, knows the system and current players. If anyone will get the young guys to stay it’s him. Joyce is the obvious choice for me and I think he gets the job. Leaving Vegas up a lot of money and booking Omaha! Go Dukes!

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Virginia Commonwealth University Rams (A10 Tourney) » 3/17/2024 2:24 pm

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Give Dambrot a lifetime contract and let Joyce lead us into the future after that. Congratulations to everyone involved, the dream has been ACHIEVED.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Dayton Flyers (A10 Tourney) » 3/15/2024 12:56 am

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What a performance tonight from the whole team. So many guys stepped up with Clark and Grant starting slow. We were in control the whole game, and did an unbelievable job slowing down Holmes in the first half. Necas played big minutes, and the step back from Clark to seal it was amazing.

Thoroughly deserved to win and couldn’t be happier for the team. Dambrot has done extremely well down the stretch and I think some forget just how poor of a situation he inherited. Back to back 20 win seasons, a now historic team and season and just knocked off a ranked tourney team and we couldn’t look more in stride right now. We have beaten all 3 of the remaining teams, time to finish strong and make a real run at the dance. I was a freshman in 2010 and have followed the program closely since then, best run in my time as a fan, so excited for all the fans and players and staff.

I will be in Vegas Saturday and Sunday. I’ll be enjoying a cigar in a sports book hopefully watching us knock off the Bonnies and heading to the finals!

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Rhode Island Rams » 2/05/2024 1:05 pm

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NapaDuke wrote:

Duques102 wrote:

Go Dukes.

I like your post. Most on about everything. Except, against Dayton. Both Drame's should completely take on Holmes and take him out of the game. Offensively and defensively. He is too fast for most bigs to keep up with his moves to the perimeter for 3's.  Just make the game 4 on 4 without Holmes. Last game his wide open 3's was the only difference that kept us from winning. Great coaches take out their opponents top player. Some games teams try to take Dae Dae out like that. Both Drame's keep subbing in and stay on him. I would.

Agree the key to beating them would be to take Holmes out of the game and not allow him to get in any type of rhythm offensively. Also agree that should involve multiple guys.

In a matchup with them I would love to see us rotate every big to play him hard and physical, with the intention of having each guy giving him 2-3 good hard fouls. Use that depth. You get that from Dixon, Barre, both Drames, Williams, and Mahorcic and I think you can disrupt him and their offensive rhythm. Don’t let him get to the basket.

I just hope Mahorcic can continue to improve physically and if he does he could be a big contributor down the stretch, rather than a guy who can give you a few solid minute stretches.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Rhode Island Rams » 2/04/2024 11:07 am

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Best performance of the season for me on both ends of the court. Think today’s performance is the kind of basketball a lot of us expected to see from this team this year. Ditto for the coaches who picked them 4th and the media covering mid majors who gave them a lot of love going into the season.

The first part of the A10 stretch was tough, but after UMASS which was admittedly bad, they lost the next 4 games by an average margin of 3.5 points to Dayton who is now nationally ranked, Richmond who is undefeated in the conference, Loyola who has been a big surprise and currently sit 3rd at 6-2, and St joes who are currently 5th and were another favorite this year in the A10.

That was a 4 loss stretch to #1, #2, #3, and #5 and the average margin was 3.5. On top of that UMASS are currently #6. That now looks like the toughest stretch of the schedule and feels like we have some momentum having ripped off 4 wins in a row.

Gotta beat Davidson and beating SBU at their place would be a big statement. If they do that and split Dayton and St. Joes, they should be favored in most other games besides maybe VCU/maybe GMU for the rest of the season.

This next 4 game stretch is crucial. Win 3 and I believe we have a real chance of making a run at a top 5 finish which is big for the tourney. Get in with a decent seed and I feel like we have a real chance of beating anyone, except maybe Dayton. Hopefully Mahorcic can continue to gain strength and health and be ready to match up with Holmes in the tourney if we can actually get to that point.

This still feels like our best team and chance in a long time. If we beat one of Princeton/Nebraska/Santa Clara (all games it felt like we could have won), and one or two of those first conference games, this season would look very different. We should be favored in all but 2-3 of the last 10 games. Everything to play for.

Go Dukes.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Chicago State University Cougars » 2/01/2024 5:38 pm

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townsonkid wrote:

CityDuke wrote:

I have been extremely impressed with Noah Buono on the color commentary so far. What a knowledgable and well-spoken young man!

DU needs to step in, offer him Cannon’s job.  Easy voice to listen to, and knows what he is talking about.

At risk of agreeing and once again sounding like the guy always bashing on Cannon, this was my biggest pleasant surprise to come out of this game. Objectively, Cannon is from my memory the worst “color analyst” I can ever remember hearing in any sport. Buono absolutely wiped the floor with him from an in-game analysis perspective and the fact that they were doing color side by side created an embarrassingly stark contrast to the two’s basketball acumen that I believe HAS to be the beginning of the end to the Ellis cannon ESPN+ era. Noah is fresh off a D1 basketball career playing for this coach and program, and is young and hungry to get into the business. He is the ideal person for the role, and his new inclusion is no random happenstance and in my opinion giving him the runway to take over full time next year.

Hearing Buono would be joining at halftime and for the second half I started making notes on each’s comments as I knew I would be coming to post this after and didn’t want to sound like I was just being negative towards Ellis.

I noted that during the broadcast, rather than going into detail about technical aspects of basketball at any point, Cannon used metaphors, stories, and jokes related to Mike Tomlin, Kenny Pickett, Bill Belichick and Mario Lemuix to describe and relate to what was going on in a COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME. Buono gets on there and starts talking about Chi State initiating a 2-1-2 half court pressure, a 5-1 switch on defense, and breaking down why the Chicago state guard was a legit NBA prospect.

Cannon later went back to his greatest hits of reading the most basic level stats as if that was analysis, or repeating things Dambrot said in his coache

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Massachusetts Minutemen » 1/03/2024 7:44 pm

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This broadcast team is first team all A10. Color guy is knowledgeable and informative. What a breath of fresh air compared to the usual.

Men's Basketball » Opportunity to build Postseason Resume in A10 » 12/22/2023 12:26 pm

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Best A10 game of the day is probably 9-2 Mason at 8-2 Tulane at 2 Eastern. Tulane is -4.5 and Mason features our old friend Amari Kelly who has been really good for them this year.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Saint Peter's University Peacocks » 12/08/2023 5:52 pm

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Last I had heard Mahorcic was tracking to be back in December, has there been any other update on him?

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Nebraska Cornhuskers » 11/24/2023 1:11 pm

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This year.....

ACC
Chattanooga 81 Louisville 71 @ Louisville
U Mass Lowell 74 Georgia Tech 71 @ G Tech
Western Carolina 71 Notre Dame 61 @ ND

Colorado State 86 Boston College 74 Neutral site (likely P5 refs)
Loyola Chicago 71 Boston College 68 Neutral site (likely P5 refs)

Big Ten
Davidson 64 Maryland 61 Neutral
UAB 66 Maryland 63 Neutral
James Maddison 79 Michigan State 76 @ MI State
Long Beach State 94 Michigan 86 @ Michigan

Big 12
Monmouth 73 WVU 65 @ WVU
Abilene Christian 64 Oklahoma State 59 @ OK State

St. Bonnies 66 Oklahoma State 64 Neutral site (likely P5 refs)

Pac 12
Pacific 87 Cal 79 @ Cal
Montana State 63 Cal 60 @ Cal
Santa Clare 89 Stanford 77 @ Stanford
Nevada 83 Washington 76 @ Washington

San Diego State 100 Washington 97 Neutral

SEC
Presbyterian 68 Vanderbilt 62 @ Vandy
Nicholls State 68 LSU 66 @ LSU

Dayton 70 LSU 67 Neutral
Jackson State 73 Mizzou 72 @ Mizzou
UNC Greensboro 78 #14 Arkansas 72 @ Arkansas

Big Ten officials are going to let Michigan and Michigan State lose at home but not Nebraska???
 

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Nebraska Cornhuskers » 11/24/2023 12:07 pm

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The fact that no A10 teams or any other mid majors have ever beaten power 5 teams ever supports the conspiracy that refs are against smaller teams.

Give me a break, we got hot, came back to earth, made bad decisions, gave away the lead, and eventually the trailing margin grew and that was that. If we played as well as we did to start, we would have won that game even if 3 Nebraska alums were refereeing.

We build leads on unsustainably good shooting from 2-3 guys against good teams and once those guys cool off, games get tight, has happened a good bit. Clark and Rozier get too aggressive defensively and get in foul trouble. Especially for Clark, it’s almost every game.

This team also has no clue how to settle down and play half court offense with a lead. All the screening and ball movement is helter skelter and geared to find those 2 or 3 guys on the perimeter, or triggering fast breaks off of turnovers and rebounds. Once they get a lead doing this, shooting cools off and the over aggressive defense leads to foul trouble. There only ever seems to be one plan and the good teams have been able to adjust and deal with this time and again in the Dambrot era. It’s frustrating but to improve I think it is important to recognize the actual internal issues rather than saying some ref who’s never heard of Duquesne wanted them to lose the other day.

Someone also mentioned refs getting a higher fee to ref a power 5 game. Do you know how those guys ascend to the level of being offered the chance to officiate a power 5 game??? They are routinely assessed and evaluated, and the best of the bunch get offered that chance. It’s not like they get the chance by meeting the Nebraska AD in a dark smoky bar and get handed an envelope full of cash. The level of mental gymnastics happening to come up with reasons to blame someone besides the coach or team is comical to me.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - University of Nebraska Cornhuskers » 11/24/2023 11:47 am

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We should change the name of this board to the Duquesne Basketball excuse making thread. Every time we lose it’s on the officials. I blame the coach and players personally.

Is it the referees fault that Jimmy Clark and Dixon are completely undisciplined, and continue to take huge aggressive risks or be left on the floor when they have a lot of fouls? Clark does this literally every game, it’s always the officials or does he have some culpability?

How does he not understand that reaching in super aggressively for your 4th or 5th steal is not worth it when the trade off if you don’t execute something on a razor thin margin is him sitting in the bench for 10 minutes in the first or getting 4 fouls 8 minutes into the second half? It is infuriating because he is literally good at every aspect of the game, and is so important to what this team could be, maybe just don’t try to reach in and steal on EVERY SINGLE POSSESION.

It’s the same logic to me to say, hey Micah Mason, your one of the best shooters in college history and maybe the best we’ve ever had at this program, feel free to jack up a three anywhere and everywhere as soon as you cross half court. It’s not a winning formula.

I am not with all the whining and crying. In classic Dambrot Dukes fashion against a good opponent, we get out to a hot start and look good. Then we eventually cooled off and it got closer. Then we get in foul trouble and our depth can’t keep up with them and they start pulling away. Starters go back in but not enough to come back. You could also really see the difference in strength, athleticism, and physicality between us and a power 5 team tonight in my opinion.

Despite all of my negativity, I do think this team is good enough to win the league and league tourney. Hopefully decision making improves as the year goes on, Clark has absolutely hamstrung us so far. I remember in one of the earlier games Tim Benz mentioned Dambrot had said in an interview that Clark had bec

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Stony Brook University Seawolves » 11/13/2023 12:18 pm

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One interesting tid bit on Stony Brook when checking roster and box scores, in their first two games they have given minutes to guys that go 6’10”, 7,3”, and 7’0”. It will be interesting to see how we cope but expecting a comfortable win.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - College of Charleston Cougars » 11/10/2023 2:06 pm

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I was definitely encouraged by the depth and versatility this roster displayed in game 1 (not even including Hronsky, Nicholls, or Mahorcic yet). That being said, would have hoped for a slightly more convincing win against CSU in game 1, although they may have been underrated going into the first game. They certainly have a big 3 of guys who could be solid to very good A10 players.

That was still a matchup where we were favored by 10.5 or so and it took that late clutch baseline 3 from Drame to claw back and win it. Our free throw shooting had a huge role in why that game was so close so hopefully we can improve there as there weren’t many other aspects of the game to criticize on either end for the Dukes.

I think Savrosov will improve and if he can, he could be extremely important for us as a big physical guard forward type player at the 3 spot who can play inside and out with a versatile skill set. He looked nervous to me more than anything in the first game, admittedly it’s a step up in level but he was good enough to go to a power 5 school initially and I still think he displayed why.

Fundamentally I thought he looked really strong on Monday, good hands, good handle, moved extremely well with and without the basketball and was a strong rebounder. Looked jittery and I think that was why his jump shot was so off. He has the college scoring production chops and clearly the green light from the coaching staff to take a good number of shots, so hoping he can improve the shooting and lock down the 3 spot.

This is a huge litmus test game in my opinion for this team. Charleston is one of the best and most consistent mid major programs of recent memory, they have cracked the top 25 and have had 2 tourney bids in the last 5 years. This is essentially what Duquesne has been trying to become since hiring Dambrot.

Good team on a nuetral court. Win this one and I like our chances of going into the Nebraska game 5-0 to start the toughest 3 game stretch of the OOC sc

Men's Basketball » Devin Carney in Portal » 4/12/2023 5:21 pm

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Styles1229 wrote:

This is not good news.  EVERYBODY agreed this kid could shoot.  He was a local winner to boot.  I saw plenty of playing time available for him this year with Brewer and Q being gone.  It appears other A-10 schools as well as power 5 schools are showing interest so it's clear he was a fit for this level of competition.  He must have either been shown the door or inferred he was not in the plans (which is really the same thing.)  I will wait to see how things shake out before making a judgement but i'm not going to pretend this is a non event.  

Are you referring to ONE TWEET from something called “The portal report” when you cite Power 5 interest? The tweet said he has “heard” from 13 schools. One is Vanderbilt, one is UMASS, and the rest are significantly lesser programs. Who do you think gave this Twitter profile this information, it is the player dude.

One phone call does not equal interest. An offer equals interest, and I bet you he doesn’t get one from Vandy.

The kid couldn’t even make the playing roster this year on this team and you are suggesting there is any likelihood that he will go to UMASS and be the A10 player of the year?!

Maceo Austin was apparently receiving “interest” from Virginia out of high school and was a true 3 star recruit, a much higher profile recruit than this kid. He came here and didn’t cut it, and is now going to be playing at Slippery Rock.

The western PA area has been lite on talent for awhile now, and here is another kid who was overhyped. He was going to be going to ELON, another lesser program. There is no conclusion to make from this other than he wasn’t good enough.

Do you think they red shirted him, even though he had some great potential and could have contributed this year? If he was good enough, he would have been playing.

If 5’9” Kareem Rozier can play as much as he did as a freshman, then there is no argument that this was some mistake. He’s not good enou

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Fordham University Rams (A) » 3/04/2023 10:30 pm

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CityDuke wrote:

Ridiculous shooting? Explain that.

I don’t know, Joe Reece making two 3’s in a 9 minute stretch in the first half accounting for literally 25% of our scoring at that point?

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Fordham University Rams (A) » 3/04/2023 10:23 pm

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CityDuke wrote:

Fordham still doesn't scare me in the slightest.

The last time we beat Fordham was January 27th 2021. We have since lost to them 4 times in a row. If I didn’t already live in Oregon I would say I want what your smokin.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Fordham University Rams (A) » 3/04/2023 9:29 pm

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CityDuke wrote:

We can say the game was more than the officials, but I will say this…basketball is a very momentum-based game.  Momentum is extremely fragile. We were all over Fordham early in the game. When it was basketball. Playing very well. They were out of sorts. They found some footing and then their footing was reinforced with a 7 point possession from the officiating. The tides turned dramatically. We beat them in the tourney, mark it.

Were you complaining about the refs, fragility, and momentum when they rang up Quisenberry, their best player, with 4 fouls with 11 and a half minutes left in the second half?????

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Fordham University Rams (A) » 3/04/2023 9:02 pm

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Ironduke81 wrote:

City Duke please. Really.? Enough. Coach Dambrot & staff has done a great job this year. Urgo  like Schmidt are superior game coaches. Good news Urgo power 5 team within 1-2 years. My problem today is how can CoachDambrot takes T Al McQuire special in order to protect his team. Cowardice in my opinion. If he takes a T next round A10 playoffs much too late. He blew it. Protect your team. Walk the plank. Pathetic.Final note missing persons McGriff crime dog. Coach this was the opportunity to protect the Dukes. You blew it.

Iron Duke for once we are completely aligned.

City Duke, optimism is a good thing, but you sound delusional. The Dukes got their ass beat by 27 points tonight. Fordham took their starters out with like 4 minutes left.

We led early off ridiculous shooting, that is not sustainable. Defense was absolutely atrocious in this game and when the shots stopped falling, that was exposed even more.

I am so sick of hearing about the refs. Did they miss a couple calls or make some calls I didn’t agree with? Yes, both ways in my opinion.

Was it the ref’s atrocious defense that led to a soft foul and easy layup for an and one immediately following Gunn completely losing his head in a huge moment?

RJ Gunn is probably damn near 28 years old at this point, to lose your composure like that regardless of the other players involvement is both selfish and naive in a huge game (senior night) on the road. I felt like we were completely screwed as soon as it happened. Maybe it should have been a double tech, but I’m not shocked the call favored them a little at home. That being said I could easily see that being deemed a flagrant and it wasn’t.

We blew a lead after getting out early, that is essentially the theme of the season. This team doesn’t play smart, winning basketball. There’s a difference between having talent and playing winning basketball and just having some talent, and we are the latter. That’s down to coaching a

Men's Basketball » A10 (Almost) Regular Season Post Mortem-What can this team be? » 3/03/2023 1:08 pm

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This team is confounding. I think they are good not great, but extremely dangerous when multiple guys are hot shooting, and we have about 5 guys who can get hot. The depth has helped win games at times as well, and the offensive ball movement has been much improved this year and lead to much more balanced scoring, making the team much harder to guard on any given night. The defense has also improved, especially down the stretch.

Issues from past years we have seen still pop up far more often than I would like to see. Too many bad shots and decisions at times leading to many blown leads in the 2nd halves, some we recovered from and some we did not. Too aggressive at times defensively leaving us exposed, and we have trouble matching up against the top teams from a positional size perspective. 5’9” guards and 6’6” and 6’7” post guys will leave you at a disadvantage from the jump against some of the better teams offensively and defensively. Not to mention a seeming lack of coaching adjustments/strategies at obvious/crucial periods of games.

Too often I find myself thinking I wish we just played smarter basketball, and if we did would likely have 2-3 more conference wins this year. This speaks to both player and coach letdowns throughout the season at times.

All that being said, I think this team’s range of outcomes for the rest of the season include an A10 tourney one-and-done performance, all the way to winning the thing and going to the Big Dance (one can dream).

I am a data nerd, and I plotted out the A10 season and schedule for the Dukes prior to our last game to get a better sense of who this team really is. You can obviously go deeper with stats at the individual player level but I wanted to keep this at the team level to get people’s general senses about the teams performance to date, and likely range of outcomes for what has really been a wild year.

The best way to do that from my perspective is to look at data and facts. Wanted to only look

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - St. Bonaventure University Bonnies (H) » 2/11/2023 10:11 pm

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Happy to be wrong about some of these guys, unbelievable performance tonight by the Dukes in their first home win against Saint Bonnie’s since 2016(!!).

They keep gelling and improving, beat a well coached defensive team with defense.

Love Roziers leadership, I can’t remember having a hype man like him in recent memory. Everyone chipped in tonight and that is how this team can be successful going forward.

Very encouraged, if we beat SLU I will be ready to call this team a real A10 contender!

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Loyola University Chicago Ramblers » 1/27/2023 10:36 pm

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Ironduke81 wrote:

Uber eats guy blowing up all over the internet. Ellis Cannon & Tim Benz getting major 👍 for their live on air comments. For all you Cannon & Benz haters I rest my case. Classic moment in Duquesne basketball history. How ironic the same date of Jerome Lanes monster dunk. Great job Dukes & coaching staff adjustments second half.

The joke writes itself.

Men's Basketball » Game Thread - Fordham University Rams (H) » 1/22/2023 1:53 pm

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I think we are at a point where we need to hit lightning in a bottle and it all to happen in a year for the program to be revitalized. Now with the free agency nature of college hoops it actually seems more possible.

One year where enough guys stay over and we nail down a recruiting class way above what we are getting. If we have a turnaround year like that, and I’m talking tourney bid year, I think by the end of that season fans are bought in, less guys leave, we get better guys the next year, etc. to carry the momentum forward. I don’t think anything less that that will change where we are. The coop is a huge asset and hopefully that and NIL could be leveraged in a way to accelerate the programs progression via recruiting.

If that ever happened, what a rush it would be. Dukes would be the darling of Pittsburgh sports, packed coop, and all the media coverage we covet. One can dream!

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