The Lakers played in Philly last night. That meant a special guest was close enough to come visit the Dukes. That special guest may just be the best basketball player of all time.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFZVFirN1_P/?igsh=ajc0MXUyb2V6d2d5

Zac Weiss appeared on the “Bracy Sports Media Podcast” to preview the Dukes’ matchup tonight!! Link below, but as I have an iPhone I was able to look up bracy sports media in the podcasts app and listen easily on the move that way.

https://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2025/01/28/listen-psns-zac-weiss-on-bracy-sports-media-podcast/

Ironduke81 wrote:

Wow Fan Duel has the Dukes at 8.5+. What am I missing? Are they that bad according to the analytics?

Line is up to 9½. The analytics are really bad in some areas - in conference play, the Dukes are last in getting to the foul line and if/when they get there, they are last in FT%. And the Dukes send teams to the line with alarming frequency. The above combination is a deadly disadvantage on the road.
The Dukes will need to shoot well from 3 with a good frequency in order to win this game.

Video of Lebron shaking hands of the Dukes as they entered the room:

https://x.com/coach_swright/status/1884469197188596032?s=46

It’s Coach Dru’s birthday. Great video of a pregame pep talk and celebration of his day:

https://x.com/duqmbb/status/1884742510628454561?s=46

Chabi out with a hamstring. Wilborn and Dixon playing like their heads are up you know what. We’re going to need to figure it out down low at some point.

Last edited by BluffHunter (1/29/2025 7:19 pm)

Necas runs away from the rebound to let the ball go out of bounds from the rim of Matus’ shot to send us to the U4 media timeout…

Joe Lunardi just said it best. “It just seems like both of these teams aren’t into it. Maybe we’re in the dog days of February already.”

FAM wrote:

We know why Wilburn doesn’t start… he keeps getting blocked and is extremely slow.

This is like watching paint dry so far.

Thought he made a few nice moves to get open, but has go up more aggressively. He was definitely fouled on a couple of those misses, but he's got to put them home. Wilborn at least has an inside game. Dixon just too stiff and commits the most ridiculous fouls. The Corbett turnover before the end of the half should never happen. Edwards makes one mistake and he sits on the pine for the last 12 minutes. That's just poor coaching.
 

Wilborn the best big we got.  At least he will body up.   Still just a soph, in first year of A10.
Flemming is too good for any of our bigs tho. 

Lunardi is pretty dull, but its so much better than Cannon rambling on about nothingness and praising our opponents.   Their announcers dont have to talk all the time.  Its nice.

Dukes just not good right now. No go to guy and nobody willing to take it to the hoop hard. Didn't see this coming after the 4-1 start. Lunardi is such a homer and down right annoying. Always hated Duquesne like any other St. Joe fan.

Dinkins with 15 points in the final 1 minute and 19 seconds. I dread the game where a team starts fouling us with a minute left and we have to make foul shots.