I do not believe that practice have started yet.  This is in sharp contrast to Dambrot who seemed to have his teams practice nearly year-round, and went long and hard for during the summer.  Returning players probably love this break as do their body's.  Heard Dixon had another knee surgery but would like to know if anyone else has heard the same

Have no idea how this group will be and have no idea how this will work with a new coach with no coaching experience.  However, very hopefully optimistic and its a good sign that the new coach is not running his players into the ground and letting these kids enjoy some much-needed free time 

The more I think about coach Terry W leaving, the more uncomfortable I am becoming for several reasons.  As mentioned in a previous post, he seemed to be the coach with the best relationship with the players.  He also has a ton of experience and was a prior head coach.  He has deep ties in the AAU world, and can interact with all types of parents, which we should not underestimate. This also does not sit right as it is another example of Dambrot either throwing loyalty out the door by not protecting coach Terry or buy Dru throwing Dambrot under the bus.  Either way, the dismissal of coach Terry is not good for the program, is not a good look, and takes away more of the culture we had at the end of this season.

We have a 39-year old coach who has never coached a single basketball game and has very little experience recruiting.  We are all acting like we are guaranteed to return to the NCAA just because we hired Dru and have 5-6 players returning.  We are behind other teams in our league in terms of having a complete coaching staff, and also with building the roster.

 

The longer it goes without one of these guys committing the less likely it is one of them will commit.  KD used to get these guys to commit pretty quickly as he was a closer. I have heard Terry Weigand and another coach were fired.  This means there is a new group in charge of these visits and the pitch.  Terry seemed very experienced, the kids liked him, and he could relate to parents.  If this is true that two coaches were fired, this is a disappointment.

I have heard LA has a late second round pick.  Interesting

I wish him the best as well!  Looked good when he played and is a super athlete.  Hopefully, we do not see any more.  Really hoping we keep the core together.  Need to keep as much of this winning culture here as we can.

Anyone have updates on the staff?  Is DJ keeping everyone?

The Dukes are very likely going to be included in this year's edition of "One Shining Moment"!!!!

Although I am no fan of Dambrot, we are having a good finish to the season.  If he can get us to win 2-3 games in the tournament next week he should be commended, as this will be his best year and he would surpass his total of 1 win in the tournament the last six years.  We can say be beat teams that had starters missing, but a win is a win.  This team is starting to win games they should win and have won a couple most of thought they would not.

In terms of us underperforming, it is really hard for any of us to know how a team will perform with a new roster each year.  As others have mentioned, the landscape in college basketball has changed with the portal and NIL. 

Regardless of who the coach is next year we will need to find 3-5 starters via transfer.  While we have some good role players who may return, the only impact starter who can return is Dixon.  I do not see how Chabi returns if Dambrot/Dur are here, as he seems to be in their doghouse.  

I have concerns that it will be more difficult for them to attract 5th years next year because they have two 5th years that they are not playing.  Any player doing their research will want this addressed and may be less likely to buy what they are selling. 

It is going to be very difficult to replace what Dae Dae and Jimmy give us.  We need to find a couple of wings who can shoot 40% from deep, and we need bigs who can play in the post.  And if this staff remains and does find the wings who have a history of making 3's they need to play them enough minutes to let the math work in their favor.  

We should win tomorrow, and we should win at least our first game next week in New York.  Anything less will be a dissapointment.

Go DUKES!

Need to pick up a win tomorrow!  Hoping for another good showing and hopefully a good day by Grant and a healthy Dixon.

Go DUKES!

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

The A-10 is the 2nd strongest basketball only conference, trailing the Big East. The A-10 is in seven of the top 30 media markets, including New York (1), Chicago (2), Philadelphia (4), Washington (9), Charlotte (22), St. Louis (23) and Pittsburgh (26). Every single conference game is available to view via national broadcast (79) games, regional and streaming.  The conference tournament from the 2nd round on is broadcast on national TV.

Note: women's basketball also benefits strongly from the A10 conference affiliation.  Every single conference game is available to view via national broadcast games, regional and streaming.

Very insightful comments!
Lower level conferences do not have this luxury.  For example, take the Colonial Athletic Association (Charleston, Hofstra, UNCW, Drexel, etc.) - their major streaming partner is FloHoops (with some schools picking up the production costs for some regional and ESPN+ streaming games).  Including their conference championship, they only have 27 men's games nationally televised on CBSSN. 

The A10 is where the Dukes belong; there really is no better alternative.  That being said, there are a couple of disturbing trends in process that the A10 must correct quickly.
1) Not getting multiple NCAA bids
2) Inability to schedule Power 6 / Top 50 teams as part of the non-conference schedules.
These somewhat go hand in hand.  It has been very tough for most A10 teams to schedule top 50 games.  This year, the A10 has played 25 top 50 teams, compiling a 5-20 record.  Dayton alone had 5 games, finishing 3-2.  The rest of the conference was 2-18 versus top 50 competition.  It's just not a Duquesne problem, but a league wide issue (excepting Dayton) to both schedule and then win a big game.  The NET has Dayton at 20; then the Bonnies at 71, with the next eight (8!) teams bunched between 72 and 108.  Those numbers would have skewed significantly downward if there were 4 or 5 more non conference

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