After the Pitt game we fell all the way down to 266.

just keep racking up those wins, boys

and we are now at 186  

​Pitt is at 178, if we beat Fordham and Pitt loses, wouldn't it be great to pass them up?

duq81 wrote:

Tejas_Duke wrote:

and we are now at 186  

​Pitt is at 178, if we beat Fordham and Pitt loses, wouldn't it be great to pass them up?

Where is Bobby Mo?
 

205 at the moment. If Dayton beats Bonna, the Dukes could move up further tonight, but I am not sure exactly how KP works.

https://twitter.com/A10Talk/status/948893709864767488

how far we've advanced since the beginning of the season, most in the conference by a lot.

and +50 doesn't account for the 3 game losing streak. that brought us down to around 267 at our minimum, so we've jumped 80 spots in a little more than a month

As of this message, now #163.

Within league play:
#2 Offense - 110.4
#1 Defense - 84.3

Best eFG% defense - 40.5%
Best 3P% defense- 23.4%
Second best in 2P% defense, FT% defense (not that they really control that), Block %

Best FT% at 81.8%
Second best Off Reb% at 36.7%

And slowest tempo at 61.3

Lot of green and blue shaded stats that haven't been seen in a number of years or ever at all.

Who sets the "official" RPI ratings that tournament officials consider?  

duq81 wrote:

Warren Nolan is predicting us at 23-8. Hope he's right!!

http://warrennolan.com/basketball/2018/team-predict-schedule?team=Duquesne

rpiforecast.com, which uses Jeff Sagarin's formula, says 18-13 (9-9).  They say the Dukes have a less than 1 in 200 chance of finishing 23-8. I'd be happy if we split the difference on the low side with 20-11 (11-7).  

http://www.rpiforecast.com/teams/Duquesne.html

Nolan has us losing by 1 Tuesday, Sagarin says it will be 9 or 10.  Given what I've seen of both Duquesne and VCU basketball in the past 5 seasons there is no way I should be thinking we could possibly win.  And yet with the way the team has been playing defense I know they should be at least within striking distance with 5 to play and that means nothing is out of the question.  A Duquesne win at VCU would shock the A-10, but for those of us watching this team closely, while I don't think we're expecting a win it's not something that would shock us at this point.


 

My thoughts are the issue will be Duquesne’s offense when we play VCU. The defense is actually a little stronger. Lewis seems to be struggling again with scoring  and we can’t always depend on our nifty  shooting point  guard to score 21. Our bigs are of course a plus but VCU can handle them. If we can have a great night scoring and VCU has an off night anything can happen.

Would like to see Chas play without foul issues.  Lewis, he will get hot.  When he does, a couple 20 pt nights will occur.  Williams is key, along with RCC and Smith.  If any 2 of those have good nights, Dukes should be able to hang with any A10 team.  Obviously at VCU is a real test, but i am excited to see where we stand vs an upper tier A10 team on the road, something that has typically been an ugly loss.

How about the Dukes shooting 71% from the charity stripe?
I remember teams that anything over 50% was good.  :-)
 

PhoenixRising2 wrote:

townsonkid wrote:

How about the Dukes shooting 71% from the charity stripe?
I remember teams that anything over 50% was good.  :-)
 

Yeah...  the last time we broke 70% (73.8%) was 10 years ago during the 2008 season.
Yet I expect more improvement out of Dambrot's Dukes in the future.  Our 70.9% FT% only puts the Dukes at 174 in the country - strictly average.  But we have our guards all in the Top 500 in the country
- Lewis II at 85.7% (#127)
- Castro-Cannedy at 78.7% (#435)
- Smith at 78.1% (#460)

Above per KenPom

Free throw shooting wins close games. I remember how well UConn shot from the line when they won their last title. 88% for the entire tournament. Had they missed 1 more free throw against St. Joe's, they'd have lost in the first round.
 

After the Lamar game where the team shot 20/34, good for 58.8% for the game, the season FT% was 67.8%.

Since then they are 72/90 for 80%

Eric Williams Jr is 23/27 85.1% during this run of excellent FT shooting.