One game does not a schedule make, although I would also assume that we will have Pitt and Penn State too for Power 5 match ups.  PSU should be at home if that series is to continue, although I bet that game is played at Consol.  Any idea on whether or not GT was a series, or just a one time game?  I wouldn't be opposed to a relatively mediocre schedule for the rest of the games.  The A10 is hard enough.  

Great to get on Kentucky's schedule.  Have Duquesne and Kentucky ever played?  If so, how did it turn out?

president wrote:

Should be an interesting game and certainly about the most high profile team that we will have played for many a year. Does anyone remember the last such game that the Dukes took part in or any that stand out?

We played Arizona a few years ago which most likely led to us losing TJ to them. We also played duke when Aaron Jackson was playing

Bilgy wrote:

Great to get on Kentucky's schedule.  Have Duquesne and Kentucky ever played?  If so, how did it turn out?

Duquesne is 0-1 against Kentucky losing a 55-42 contest on Dec. 17, 1982.

scduke wrote:

I remember that game. It was in what they called the University of Kentucky Invitational Tournament (UKIT)–Kentucky and 3 cupcakes usually (although lots of teams are cupcakes compared to Kentucky). I was living in Cincinnati and listening to the game on my crystal set (just kidding, radio). I remember what Cawood Ledford, their announcer, said about us after we threw a couple of bad passes: "Slop, slop, slop." But we didn't really embarrass ourselves.

The Dukes were 40 point underdogs for that game with Kentucky.  6' 8"Joey Myers from Lower Burrell was the Dukes' scoring leader that season, and I believe for that game.  Losing by only 13 points was kind of a moral victory.
 

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ElDuque wrote:

It's easy to pick a red jellybean out of a pile of yellow ones. Give me 10-11 games like that and I'll eat my hat. But if it's Kentucky and the 10 dwarfs, I'll remain unimpressed.

10-11 games against similar caliber competition to Kentucky would by far be the hardest out of conference schedule in the entire country by a ridiculous margin. That doesn't even make sense. That would be disastrous to this program, we'd be 0-10 going into conference play. How does that help anything? 

About 5 years ago Long Beach State started putting out a nationally ranked program for a couple years in a row, then they tried to open a season against all ranked opponents, pretty much lost every game and haven't heard about them since. It's good to pepper in some tough tests with some winnable games, not get in way over your head. You have to go into the conference schedule with some momentum especially for a team like us who is usually running uphill in terms of talent. I don't even necessarily agree with scheduling Kentucky. I mean, is anyone willing to bet  we lose by less than 30? I'm sue were getting a pretty fat check to go down there though.

ElDuque wrote:

It's easy to pick a red jellybean out of a pile of yellow ones. Give me 10-11 games like that and I'll eat my hat. But if it's Kentucky and the 10 dwarfs, I'll remain unimpressed.

Pitt and Penn State will likely be on the schedule.  2 more top 100 teams.  Penn State may have the beginnings of a very nice run. 

Duques102 wrote:

ElDuque wrote:

It's easy to pick a red jellybean out of a pile of yellow ones. Give me 10-11 games like that and I'll eat my hat. But if it's Kentucky and the 10 dwarfs, I'll remain unimpressed.

10-11 games against similar caliber competition to Kentucky would by far be the hardest out of conference schedule in the entire country by a ridiculous margin. That doesn't even make sense. That would be disastrous to this program, we'd be 0-10 going into conference play. How does that help anything? 

About 5 years ago Long Beach State started putting out a nationally ranked program for a couple years in a row, then they tried to open a season against all ranked opponents, pretty much lost every game and haven't heard about them since. It's good to pepper in some tough tests with some winnable games, not get in way over your head. You have to go into the conference schedule with some momentum especially for a team like us who is usually running uphill in terms of talent. I don't even necessarily agree with scheduling Kentucky. I mean, is anyone willing to bet  we lose by less than 30? I'm sue were getting a pretty fat check to go down there though.

Let's just not play a top 20 soft schedule with DII teams.

$3 million after this year. That's a lot of freakin jelly beans.

Harper on adding Kentucky to the schedule

http://triblive.com/sports/college/duquesne/10454468-74/kentucky-season-basketball

 

i had no idea ferry actually made the schedule. at most schools its usually the AD....

it seems live every year we play Pitt/Penn St and one other power 5 program, whether it be duke, arizona, ga tech, WVU, etc.

i would assume the problem most of us have with the schedule is the d2 teams that actually count as a regular season win, along with the multitude of sub 300 RPI teams we play. 

ElDuque wrote:

There's no reason we can't play teams in the bottom half of the power conferences. Have to play Pitt and RMU. I like Penn State on the schedule. Kentucky is a good add. I would have either a Florida or Cali trip, a Jersey trip or Lehigh Valley, a decent Midwestern game. Play where we have either an alumni base or recruiting targets. I know that's a lot of variables but it beats starting with the bottom 10 RPI teams. Would also help put fannies in the seats.

Bottom half P5 teams aren't coming to Palumbo. Just like every other program, they want mostly home games, with maybe a regional home and home, plus one game as a road whore. No one wants to play tough games, especially against teams that rank below you. It trickles down until you get to the low majors, who end up having to absorb all of the road games. BE won't play at A10. A10 won't play at MAAC, MAAC won't play at NEC. NEC goes on the road.