townsonkid wrote:

Be waiting on the phone with this kids number in hand, waiting for the ruling to come down, if he cant play HS ball anymore, call him ASAP

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/high-school-basketball/2019/04/23/Donovan-Johnson-Moon-senior-year-eligibility-WPIAL-PIAA-repeated-eighth-grade/stories/201904230133

He's gotta graduate high school first regardless of his Wpial eligibility. In all likelihood, he'll just go to a prep school

I'd add a couple of points to the how Duquesne should recruit:

1) stop promising early playing time. Now that Dambrot has his core in place, there isn't always going to be time available immediately. Talk instead about development and how the staff can improve aspects of their game. 

2) I don't expect Dambrot to do this as he didn't do a lot of it at Akron, but a Duquesne coach should be open to any avenue to add talent. Transfers, junior college transfers, grad transfers, prep school, traditional high school, foreign markets. Whatever you can get take it 

Everhart's second year team is still the deepest most talented and experienced team I've seen since I've followed Duquesne. They went modified 1040 and it didn't go great.

Here is a piece I just finished on the current state of the A-10 as it relates to the postseason. You can put me pretty firmly in Wildwoods' camp. There are definitely some considerable red flags even if their is time to recover from them. 

For those of you who weren’t aware, Face and I recently restarted WeWearTheRing. I’m very proud of The Point of Pittsburgh, but the space didn’t really allow for my Duquesne content and with the excitement Keith Dambrot has brought back. I don’t plan to regularly post links here, only when what I’m writing is relevant to an existing thread as is the case here. That said, we would greatly appreciate it if you bookmarked the page or followed us on social media. My apologies if the second half of this post derails the original topic. If you’d like to talk WWTR, please private message me here. 

Predictive services tend to go conservative / underrate teams that they have limited information on or who have a lot of unknown commodities. Dukes really have both. Sometimes, I think it's a credibility thing. If you swing big too many times on risky or bold picks, you lose credibility. If you stick with safe picks and you're wrong, readers care less as a lot of people were wrong together. Other times, I think they just fail to do adequate research.

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

So much for those conferences that were trying to “game” the system by having flex schedules at the end of their conference slate.

Those conferences should still benefit from NET. I like these changes, a lot, but I'm not sure I like them immediately being implemented. Schools built their schedules with RPI in mind.

Kenpom Rankings from last season

Notre Dame - 35
W & M - 169
Radford - 170
UIC - 182

Only two opponents SFU and Southern Illinois finished higher than any of those teams last year. 

 

DukeBaller53 wrote:

That is an all area team... Third team in his area. The all state teams came out today, won’t let me post a link. There are two players that made the All Star team that didnt make the All State teams and Gavin is one of them.
 

It's not a regional team, but it does remove underclassman. I see the AP one you're referencing as well though now.

CLK wrote:

Question answered....Sincere Carry is on athletic scholarship, not a walk on.

http://www.goduquesne.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/041018aag.html

Some people may not agree with me, but I loved his play for the jump ball in the first video. Much bigger player fought him for possession but he wouldn't  be denied the ball even after the whistle. Sure he got t'd up, and it was dirty but that showed a ton of competitivess and sends a message to the opponent.

Just a hunch, but I think La Salle goes the assistant route.

DennisC91 wrote:

LaSalle and GW both go down this afternoon, assuring the Dukes of no lower than a 10th place finish, avoiding the dreaded play-in round. I believe we're locked into 10th place regardless as we'd lose both a head-to-head tiebreaker with Dayton (based on best conference win) and a three-way tiebreaker with Dayton and Richmond (based on head-to-head). But let's get a win tonight. UMass is the worst team in the league and is more or less in free fall. 

This is correct. The Dukes could finish no worse than 10th as soon as La Salle lost. Game tonight is essesntially meaningless although a win would help their chances of being asked to buy a CBI game.

duq81 wrote:

Crosseye wrote:

The team was picked in preseason to finish last among 14 teams in the conference. What exactly does anyone expect at this point? I don't get moaning about losing a road game by single digits. Nobody likes to lose. Obviously. Yet this team continues to show up (with exception of the Fordham game lately). Last-place projections usually play out that way. A 7-point loss on the road in this league by the last-place projected team isn't a terrible commentary. And as for the current coach, anyone who blasts this guy beyond perhaps mentioning that he may or may not be hurting his team with technicals and he probably should go easy on older announcers is way out of line in my book. And as mentioned, all that's got to be a product of hating to lose. Let's all go back and rehire Jim Ferry, who thought he was still coaching in the NEC when he got to the A10. Duquesne is going to be a force under this guy. Give it some time, will ya? Sheesh.

The ones moaning and groaning are folks who somehow convinced themselves that we had become some sort of powerhouse overnight. There was crazy talk of at large bids and such. Now that the obvious warts and shortcomings of this roster have become apparent to even them, these folks are disappointed. I am very satisfied with our record. Yeah, we've lost a few tough ones, but Lamar, SF, LaSalle, GMU, and @GW all could very easily have been losses, so we've had our share of good luck. In November, everyone on this board would have taken 15-12 at this point of the season. We're playing with a D2 frontcourt. We've done just about the best we can playing 3 on 5.

Duq81,


I do agree with most of your post expect your final point. In defense of Tydus, he's not polished offensively but he's got all conference defensive team upside and in my eyes, he'd merit consideration this year if not for the fact that he's is a freshman. I've watch a fair amount of A-10 games during the conference season and I'm not sur