IronDukes12 wrote:

Fast Forward — ESPN, March 18, 2013:

"In other first round games, 14th-seeded Duquesne (18-17), a team that endured an 11-game losing streak and was winless in the league and given up for dead before sneaking into the A-10 Tournament by winning six of its last seven conference games — an improbable late-season turnaround that began with an upset victory on the road against the heavily-favored and NCAA-bound Temple Owls and later saw Jim Ferry's never-say-die Dukes dramatically storm from 15 points behind in the second half to take league-leading Butler down to the wire in Indianapolis before winning on an Andre Marhold tip-in at the buzzer — then unexpectedly swept all four games at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn this past weekend to win an automatic berth in the NCAA tournament, will face third-seeded..."

Well, maybe it's just a dream, but if anyone deserves a miracle, it's Duquesne's long-suffering fans. Let's fight to the finish. Go Iron Dukes!!!

 

Good stuff.  Let's get the Rams and keep it going.

rittersdiner wrote:

What strikes me about this game here is this: Duquesne won, broke an 11-game losing streak, won on the road against a good team, and we have - what? - five or six posters on this site. No one else cares. That's the sign of a program that is irrelevant.

Some of us read and post only when we have something to say, first that is a hard place to play in. I went ona road trip by bus with Ron Mulah (sp) back when Wayne Smith was our forward, DAP coaching.

Dukes looked like jr high kids against Chaneys Owls, they were tall and thick, we lost by 20 plus, on the long ride back to Pgh all on bus agreed we may never win there,now we did, hats off to Ferry and his kids, Marhold and Winters played lights out.

"However, this team has played to the level of its competition all season, and it did again Thursday night in its worst loss yet. The Dukes (8-16, 1-9) are recognized as the A-10's worst team."

This from a Philly Paper on Temple losing to Duquesne.  Yes, Temple overlooked Duquesne.  Why shouldn't they - poor team - their place - they are good.  However, Q played well as did Marhold and others.  On any given day...

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/owlsinq/Best-and-Worst-award-Temple-vs-Duquesne-Khalif-Wyatt-Anthony-Lee-Quevyn-Winters-Jerry-Jones-Derrick-Colter-Atlantic-10-Ten-A-10.html
This is an Excellent Article from Philly on the Best and Worst of the Game

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CONGRATULATIONS TO THE DUKES AND COACH JIM FERRY AND STAFF! Great win. There will be more. Looking forward to each one of them and to next year. Hoping to counter Mr. Negative here, just a bit!

Tejas_Duke wrote:

Yawn.  Not to rain on the parade or urinate in the Kelloggs breakfast food, but "So What?"  This program is dead man walking as far as mattering in the way most of us want it to matter.  That ship sailed with the idiocy last spring.  In three years we are going to be a bad team in a one bid conference, and even then we won't win the stupid thing!

I used to hope we could at least be a Xavier or a Temple and matter in our little A-10, but we blew that chance and soon we'll be Manhattan or Siena, and somehow, we will still manage to miss the Big Dance. Of course even if we make it the A 10 will be providing a fourteenth or fifteenth seed as a sacrificial lamb to the ACC runner up and it won't matter.

In three years Jim Ferry will be Scott Edgar and some of you will be lining up to support the next coach and his "vision to return Duquesne to its.................yadda yadda yadda.

Please sir, go back on your medication, you are far too depressing in your present state of mind.  Get Help!

rittersdiner wrote:

What strikes me about this game here is this: Duquesne won, broke an 11-game losing streak, won on the road against a good team, and we have - what? - five or six posters on this site. No one else cares. That's the sign of a program that is irrelevant.

 
Hey, Under My Arm PItt man;   This is only the beginning!

Congrats to the young Dukes and coaching staff, the foundation is being built.

rittersdiner wrote:

What strikes me about this game here is this: Duquesne won, broke an 11-game losing streak, won on the road against a good team, and we have - what? - five or six posters on this site. No one else cares. That's the sign of a program that is irrelevant.

 
Not true at all...I see 2,000+ fans at every home game that care.  Sadly, most of them don't fit the "blogger demographic".  The fact is that our Dukes played a very good game uder extremely difficult circumstances and took home a road win last night.  I personally can't remember a game in recent memory that had that much drama (especially one that we were able to win).  Gives some of us a lot of hope for the future.

That does it , I will stop giving a million a year to Duquesne, they barely won at Temple, lol

WOW

rittersdiner wrote:

Here's another slap in the face to this program. The Post-Gazette simply took the game story from the Phila. Enquirer, its sister paper, and it was all about Temple with no Duquesne quotes. Nice. The P-G doesn't even think the program worthy of better treatment.

Let's face it.  It's not!