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11/19/2025 9:48 am  #1


Game Thread - Loyola Maryland Greyhounds

The Dukes return to the Cooper Fieldhouse to face Loyola Maryland!

Coverage on ESPN+ with Tim Benz and Ellis Cannon

Radio 104.7 HD2 with Ray Goss and Noah Buono

KenPom:
#113 Duquesne (3-1) (Wins over #183 Queens, #291 Sacred Heart, and #318 Niagara. Loss vs #43 Villanova)
#297 Loyola MD (2-3) (Wins over #333 Stonehill and DIII Penn State Abington. Losses vs. #348 NJIT, #278 Fairfield, and #137 Towson)
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Haslametrics:
#110 Duquesne - 79
#294 Loyola MD - 64
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BartTorvik:
#107 Duquesne - 85
#309 Loyola MD - 67
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Duquesne Preview:
Duquesne Returns Home to Host Loyola (Md.) - Duquesne University Athletics

Loyola MD Preview:
Men's Basketball Heads To Steel City To Face Duquesne - Loyola University Maryland Athletics

Betting:
Spread: Duquesne -14.5
Moneyline: Duquesne -2000, Loyola MD +1000
Over/Under 148.5 (ESPN Bet)

 

11/19/2025 1:39 pm  #2


Re: Game Thread - Loyola Maryland Greyhounds

Get back on the good foot.   Get that W tonight.  Dont let off the gas if you are cruising along, like vs Queens.   Keep it floored.

 

11/19/2025 3:28 pm  #3


Re: Game Thread - Loyola Maryland Greyhounds

Other games tonight include Villanova at Lasalle, which will be interesting to compare ourselves to, and Dayton at Marquette.

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11/19/2025 7:14 pm  #4


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Hoping to see Jake tonight.

 

11/19/2025 7:35 pm  #5


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This team has no killer instinct. Just like the Queens game, no reason at all for this game to be close, yet it is.

 

11/19/2025 7:40 pm  #6


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Dukes should wear them down 2nd half. This team very deep. Go Dukes

 

11/19/2025 8:44 pm  #7


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Now this is what I’m talking about. No reason for this not to be an easy 20+ point victory

 

11/19/2025 9:17 pm  #8


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Love the post game interview with coach Dru on the plus. I know you are old miserable haters in regard to Ellis Cannon but he noted that Necas was a plus 35 on the court. Love the hockey analysis. Necas is soooo unselfish. What a great game. Go Dukes.

 

11/19/2025 9:32 pm  #9


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I find it interesting that Bus, Hall, Milosevic, Aikens, Max, & Alex got so little run tonight.  Seemed deliberate to get a hard look at the starters + Dixon, and to give them extra reps.

 

11/19/2025 10:04 pm  #10


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Dayton beats Marquette in OT

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11/19/2025 10:09 pm  #11


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Ironduke81 wrote:

Love the post game interview with coach Dru on the plus. I know you are old miserable haters in regard to Ellis Cannon but he noted that Necas was a plus 35 on the court. Love the hockey analysis. Necas is soooo unselfish. What a great game. Go Dukes.

Great point. Necas needs to be playing 30 to 35 minutes a game. The best defender among many non defenders. Need DiMichele back as well to set an example on how to play defense. Thought Dixon would have stepped up, but just a foul machine at this point. Dudes have got to step it up defensively big time. (profanity) Dayton just beat Marquette on the road.  You can't tell me Dayton is more talented top to bottom than the Dukes, Lets go already.

 

11/19/2025 11:26 pm  #12


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Not to be Debbie Downer, but our guards, for all their skills, cannot feed the post. Last year, Dixon got three or more slams on lobs.  Now they don’t see him, or looking for him isn’t in their basketball lexicon. I saw from several thousand miles away-/there it is!  Nada. And why Necas doesn’t play with more aggression?  He rarely gets the ball in scoring position. Just one hand off after another. Duquesne has a professional point guard as head coach , why can’t the guards hit the post? This is pivotal to winning on a higher level.

 

11/20/2025 7:47 am  #13


Re: Game Thread - Loyola Maryland Greyhounds

Mike Ignelsi wrote:

Not to be Debbie Downer, but our guards, for all their skills, cannot feed the post. Last year, Dixon got three or more slams on lobs. Now they don’t see him, or looking for him isn’t in their basketball lexicon. I saw from several thousand miles away-/there it is! Nada. And why Necas doesn’t play with more aggression? He rarely gets the ball in scoring position. Just one hand off after another. Duquesne has a professional point guard as head coach , why can’t the guards hit the post? This is pivotal to winning on a higher level.

Our feeds to the post are too easy to defend. They are mostly from a stationary player and he usually just telegraphs that it's coming. Too easy to defend. I'd like to see some feeds off of a drive at the top of the lane to a alley-oop pass to our bigs sometimes. It would drawl the defender off our Bigs and we get so big-time dunks out of it.

 

11/20/2025 12:52 pm  #14


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Feeding the post is not a common & fundamental skill today's players come to college with. There is simply not enough emphasis on all facets of offensive post play right now to force guards to master this once essential skill.

Having written that, last night's game featured at least 5 skillfull post feeds that led directly to baskets for the Dukes. Check out the highlights on ESPN. 4 of the 5 buckets shown are off post feeds of different kinds. From that, you would think it was the 2001 Lakers feeding Shaq.

I can't understand how the 4-5 reporters at Dru's post-game presser all failed to ask a specific question about Jake's availability & return to the court.

Last edited by phil95 (11/20/2025 12:53 pm)

 

11/20/2025 12:56 pm  #15


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Cam having a strong game should be a step in the right direction for rounding out the team's offensive options. If he produces like he did over the last dozen games last season, the Dukes will be a very difficult team to guard.

 

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