Of course it counts. Look at his record in Palumbo.

I thought many of you would flock to PPG to witness Ferry's demise at Duquesne!

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/duquesne/1971-schedule.html

Thanks for website. Look at that year under Manning.  For a month and a half they were in AP poll rankings...... ahhh

indygjm wrote:

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/duquesne/1977-schedule.html

It could happen!  The stars are lining up.  Duquesne beats Pitt early in the year.  Now we lose our next three games ... enter the tournament with 10 wins ... sweep the tournament and go to the NCAAs. 

Of course, I'm also planning my retirement based on winning the Powerball. 
 

LOL. We lost to Hofstra and the Frankies for grins and giggles. Does anyone know why we played P*&&^%itt three times? Was the last game a playoff for the tourney?
 

Box & One wrote:

indygjm wrote:

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/duquesne/1977-schedule.html

It could happen!  The stars are lining up.  Duquesne beats Pitt early in the year.  Now we lose our next three games ... enter the tournament with 10 wins ... sweep the tournament and go to the NCAAs. 

Of course, I'm also planning my retirement based on winning the Powerball. 
 

Remind me - Was Nixon injured for the beginning of that season?

No, we weren't very good when Norm was here. We only had one winning season, a modest 14-11 in 1974-75. In 77, we got better when Don Maser got healthy late in the year. Then Villanova's Keith Herron badly sprained his ankle late in their semi final win, and couldn't go in the championship. He was the second best player in the league, and Nova was greatly weakened without him. Luck was with us that year, but I'd trade that luck back in a minute if I could make either the rape case, or the shooting disappear.
 

duq81 wrote:

lilpav30 wrote:

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/duquesne/1971-schedule.html

Thanks for website. Look at that year under Manning. For a month and a half they were in AP poll rankings...... ahhh

That schedule is incomplete. We won 21 games that year. 1969 is even better.

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/duquesne/1969-schedule.html
 

No doubt that the 68-69 team was the pinnacle of Duquesne basketball post 1950's.  The December All College Tournament in Oklahoma City was one of the top 3 or 4 holiday tournaments in the country at the time, where the Dukes beat the Bonnies with Big Bob Lanier and then were handed their first loss of the season when some guy named Pete Maravich layed 53 points on them.  (Great article on Pete in that tourney here:  http://newsok.com/article/3331302).

It took great players to defeat the Dukes that year - Spencer Haywood of Detroit, Kenny Durrett of La Salle, Charlie Scott of North Carolina, and the team effort of Boston College (NIT Finalists).

There was an incredible amount of buzz for that Sunday game against Villanova led by Howard Porter.  Here's one article that I could find the showed how high the Dukes were flying after that win.  https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5hcfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EZYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2391%2C1584723

Good times oh so many years ago.

We also know that we will be playing one of these teams:  UMass, Saint Joseph's or Saint Louis.

Wednesday March 8th at PPG Paints Arena:
Game #1 at 6:00pm:  #13 Seed vs. #12 Seed
Game #2 at 8:30pm:  #14 Seed vs. #11 Seed

It will prolly be UMass and after the recent beat down the Dukes put on them, expect UMass to win by 25+.

applecorps wrote:

KenOTR73 wrote:

indygjm wrote:

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/duquesne/1977-schedule.html

It could happen!  The stars are lining up.  Duquesne beats Pitt early in the year.  Now we lose our next three games ... enter the tournament with 10 wins ... sweep the tournament and go to the NCAAs. 

Of course, I'm also planning my retirement based on winning the Powerball. 
 

LOL. We lost to Hofstra and the Frankies for grins and giggles. Does anyone know why we played P*&&^%itt three times? Was the last game a playoff for the tourney?
 

My guess is the first game was the Steel Bowl, and the other two were regular ECBL games. Dukes played Penn State twice in that forum also.

Correct! Pitt went 6-20 that year. We played them in the consolation game of the Steel Bowl (what an embarrassment for the city) I think we beat State Penn in the playoffs. Hofstra actually had a good team that year, and were expected to beat us. Rich Laurel was their star player, and was one of the best players we faced that year.