I watched.   Dominate performance.  They could easily be 4-1 instead of 2-3 but maybe in the long run they have learned from those losses.

You are correct.   The freshmen continue to impress.  And they are true freshmen which is rare to have 4 contributing in the new era.   Blackford has stood out all year.

DU90 wrote:

Turned on last two minutes of the third quarter and the play-by-play announcer is AWFUL.  He clearly doesn't know anything about basketball - I don't listen to him when watching on ESPN+ but this is being broadcast over the air on Pittsburgh Sportsnet so everyone is now hearing how terrible this guy is.

In the last minutes of the third quarter he said a player had "tooken" a 3-point shot and incorrectly stated that the game was still close, because Duquesne had an 11-point lead at least 3 times!!!  At the time, the score was 52-31 and he even said the score and then added it was an 11-point lead.

In the beginning of the 4th quarter, he said it was Blackford passing to Blackford. I stopped listening after that. 

For a school with a strong communications department, this is down right embarrassing. 

This guy is so bad.  Anyone who listens to the women's games on ESPN+ knows what I am talking about.  This needs to be addressed immediately.

Somebody in Athletics needs to do something because this is on YOU!

Do you mean Alex P the long time play by play guy for football and WBB?   Or do they have someone new?

I was channel hoping and found the game with Noah announcing on Sportsnet Pittsburgh.   I was pleasantly surprised at the win and the game being on TV.  Did they announce that it would be on TV?

The men won a great match @ #13 Mason.  Scored with 4 minutes left to tie and 17 seconds left to win 2-1.

townsonkid wrote:

So you think the big east is taking teams from the A10, and for some reason, that would be made worse by the A10 adding Charleston now?   I cant understand why adding Charleston would be a bad thing, at any time.

No I do not think that the Big East is taking A10 teams.   I said that.   They just signed a huge new tv deal.  Why would they add teams now to get less tv money per school?

I said with them having a new tv contract they are not poaching anyone.   So I don’t understand why we should rush to split our tv money by one more school.    They don’t bring that much to the table.

Really no need to expand at this point.  The Big East just signed a huge new tv deal last week.   So that shuts the door on any expansion there I would believe.  Why give up money to a new member?   14 is still a lot.

Doesn’t every A10 team have two designated rivals that do not change?   And Dayton and St Bona are ours.   I’m cool with that.  We played Fordham two times last year as well.

How did I miss this?   She was one of Pitt’s few bright spots.

MikeR wrote:

DuqBlue wrote:

She was a grad transfer so I wish her the best. She went to an under .500 Big Ten team in conference play. I can see leaving to play on a team that is almost guaranteed to make the tournament. That is not Wisconsin. I hope she received some NIL money. And I don’t mean that as a slam.

I thought she was a good player at DU and I hesitate to criticize players. But she could not create her own openings for the 3. If others created her open shot, she scored. I’m more concerned they lost Bernard.

I know this will be considered crazy speculation, but isn't it just barely possible Tess made her choice for academic or other non-basketball related reasons?
 

She very possibly could have.   I didn’t mean to slight her in any way.   She got a degree from Duquesne and gave 100%.   

I was thinking strictly from a basketball perspective on the choice.

At first, I was all in on Bronny coming to DU.   And will still be happy if he does. 

But the more I think about it, the situation has a bigger potential for a large downside greater (I think) than the upside.   As long as Dru is the coach LeBron will be a big supporter of DU.

If Bronny came here and it did not work out, I would hate for that relationship to be damaged between LeBron and Dru.

Face wrote:

Mascots aren’t for anyone on this board, they are for kids, and I can tell you as someone who dressed as the Duke a couple of times during games, kids were usually just scared of him. He looked like a creepy dude.

This this and all of this.  Mascots are for kids.   I like the Lion.   Just like I like the new D.

Is playing for a chance at the NCAA bowling final tournament today.   I don’t know how many teams go to the finals.  They are down  to one best of 7 match to go. 

That is a really nice program that coach has built at Duquesne. 

And when was the last time three DU teams made NCAA tournament in the same year.   That answer would be never.