Good thing to play this at Consol. Anybody still think Duquesne lost its home court advantage by playing there? Anybody think the attendance numbers were lower by not playing at Palumbo?

Other topic: To use an old horse racing saying: Nakye Sanders could be any kind. This kid's potential in unbounded.

Strong performance tonight from all the front-court players!

The spectacular performance that the Dukes put on tonight by making 17 of 34 3-pointers ties the school record for most such shots made in a single game set in the NIT game with Virginia Tech on March 18, 2009, when the Dukes made 17 of 30 3-pointers.  That's some kind of shootin'!

Someone explain to me why this game was played at Consol. There were 3,500 people, which would not even fill Palumbo. The 15,000 empty seats are an advantage for Penn State, from the noise factor to the different venue for the Dukes.

Last edited by rittersdiner (11/20/2015 11:41 pm)

rittersdiner wrote:

Someone explain to me why this game was played at Consol. There were 3,500 people, which would not even fill Palumbo. The 15,000 empty seats are an advantage for Penn State, from the noise factor to the different venue for the Dukes.

As usual, nothing positive to say. If you want to play P5 teams, and they say Consol or else, you play at the Consol. The days of Pitt, PSU, and WVU playing at Palumbo are over. If we get this train rolling, we need to quit making regular trips to Loretto. One trip there, for every 3 trips here. If they don't like it, they get dropped from the schedule. We can play YSU if we need another local game.
 

Great Win tonight. Way to take control at the end of the first half and then open the throttle at the start of the second.

Loved seeing the man to man defense tonight.

Lewis looked 100% better than the guy who often had the ball whistle through his hands last year!  I like Lewis a lot.

Nice to see some size on the court in general for the Dukes, with Lewis, Robinson and Sanders.  Tired of seeing all those 6-7 and 6-8 small forwards playing the 5 like we have for all those years.

Josh Steele really impressed me tonight.

Nice to see the defense swarming to the ball so many times.

Loved the 7'1" Penn State center missing that dunk tonight. Classic 

3-0 and looking good against a team from a big time conference. As I told my wife tonight, "It's like in football, we didn't play or beat Alabama or LSU, we beat Vanderbilt, but they ARE an SEC team!"

Last edited by Tejas_Duke (11/21/2015 1:33 am)

Our seniors are really showing their maturity and leadership.  I agree with the comment on Jones he has really stepped up his game.



 

duq81 wrote:

rittersdiner wrote:

Someone explain to me why this game was played at Consol. There were 3,500 people, which would not even fill Palumbo. The 15,000 empty seats are an advantage for Penn State, from the noise factor to the different venue for the Dukes.

As usual, nothing positive to say. If you want to play P5 teams, and they say Consol or else, you play at the Consol. The days of Pitt, PSU, and WVU playing at Palumbo are over. If we get this train rolling, we need to quit making regular trips to Loretto. One trip there, for every 3 trips here. If they don't like it, they get dropped from the schedule. We can play YSU if we need another local game.
 

They make those demands to get an advantage. I was on campus when 1,500 people would be in the Civic Arena. You could hear the coaches yelling instructions. That was not a home game Friday night. It was like a neutral site setting, and that's fine for Pitt, wVU or a program that will bring 5,000 fans. If we are going to be a major program some day, the first step is telling teams Consol is not an option. If that is not OK with them, then let them go schedule the New Jersey Institute of Technology.That's the first step to turning the culture.
 

Last edited by rittersdiner (11/21/2015 9:04 am)

Gents I will fight the Consol fight to the bitter end. LOL. I LOOOOONG for the day we can play over there regularly and even lift the curtain on the upper deck. Being old school I would like to see the ball get inside a little more since I just can't believe you can shot lights out every night. A couple of wins in Florida would make for a sweet Thanksgiving!!!!!

WEB wrote:

CLK wrote:

Our seniors are really showing their maturity and leadership.  I agree with the comment on Jones he has really stepped up his game.



 

Not to toot my own horn...but...this is what I've been saying for years now. At the mid major level, the successful teams often times are full of seniors and juniors who have played together. That's just how it works. We are starting to build the program like that.

Agreed WEB. You like to supplement the core of your team with freshmen and sophomores, but at the mid major level, and really for a good portion of the high major teams, you just aren't going to be recruiting the kids that are ready to come in and dominate right away very often.

The Dome wrote:

Gents I will fight the Consol fight to the bitter end. LOL. I LOOOOONG for the day we can play over there regularly and even lift the curtain on the upper deck. Being old school I would like to see the ball get inside a little more since I just can't believe you can shot lights out every night. A couple of wins in Florida would make for a sweet Thanksgiving!!!!!

Dome, I've got your back!! I understand why many would want to play at Palumbo, but I have big dreams, and want to see us become what we were back when JD, and the Nelsons were playing. If we reach that level, we will have to play some games at the Consol if we want to schedule any attractive home games. If we would ever end up in the BE, they would make us play a bunch of games there.
 

I agree with Dome on so many things. I have a different opinion on Consol. I think we should try to get a couple Top 20 teams plus some doubleheaders.

ElDuque wrote:

Awesome quote Phil. Jucos are usually Junk-os.

Agree with this. Other than Hargrove, and Palmer, what Jucos actually did much here?

ED, we will have to really establish ourselves to be able to attract any Top 25 type of team to come here. Pitt can't get them to come, despite being a solid ACC team. Top 25 teams want you to come to them, with no return game. It's just the way it is today. Everyone wants to play 10 home games ooc. Even the Dukes only play 2 true road games ooc this year, one of which is in Johnstown.