Once again APPRECIATE that Phoenix Rising is providing these game notes  --  The fact that there is nearly a difference of 100 between the Ken Pom Ratings and the Haslametrics ratings is how difficult it can be to get an early guage of just how good teams are/can be

Very good article from the Trib for tonight’s game. Crickets at the PG which I pay a hefty annual fee. Hmm Trib free PG pay to play to read about Pitt basketball.🤔🤔🤔💰💰💰🤮🤮🤮

Saw the team photo on twitter yesterday, Barre is a big dude, about as tall as Rotroff, but wider.   Hopefully he progresses and becomes something.   Looking forward to seeing the new team tonight.

...and the KD BS machine has begun to churn for another season

-Injury excuse before the 1st game
-Hints that undersized (no other D-1 offers) PG Rozier is already his pet cause
-Dukes are going to be different than the entire basketball world by being a low post scoring team

Ironduke81 wrote:

Very good article from the Trib for tonight’s game. Crickets at the PG which I pay a hefty annual fee. Hmm Trib free PG pay to play to read about Pitt basketball.🤔🤔🤔💰💰💰🤮🤮🤮

Im supporting th PG strike!

Tip Off Tailgate tonight starting at 6pm in the back gym.  Free Food:  Nacho Bar, Buffalo Chicken Dip, Pretzels and Cheese

BluffHunter wrote:

Styles1229 wrote:

Tip Off Tailgate tonight starting at 6pm in the back gym.  Free Food:  Nacho Bar, Buffalo Chicken Dip, Pretzels and Cheese

They could have advertised this a little earlier than yesterday... I'll be there nonetheless

They are doing something so im not fully complaining BUT I had to hear about this from a friend of mine.  Im a season ticket holder and I didn't receive any notification.  Also, is the "back gym" a thing everybody knows about?  im sure I'll find it but such sparse details - do I go into the game first with my ticket then head to the Tailgate?  if so, why call it a tailgate?

Well, this looks like a basketball team.

For this game--WOW.

Great game by the Dukes dominating  Montana. Suffocating defense in the first half cruising out toa 40 point lead in the mid second half. 

This team has talent,expertise and depth. Love it. Go Dukes!

well I'll be!   That was fun to watch, aggressive, good pace, nice depth, nice shooting and players seemed into it, having fun, which they never did last year it seemed even in the few games the won.   
Slovaks!!!

In the past 27 years and 6 coaches, this is just our third win by at least 28 points over a team that had been in the NCAA tournament within the previous five seasons. On 2/15/17, Jim Ferry and the Dukes beat Massachusetts 96-66 three years after they made the NCAA tournament. On 11/27/10, Ron Everhart and the Dukes beat UMBC 101-69 three years after they made the NCAA tournament. Prior to that you have to go all the way back to 12/22/94 to when John Carroll and the Dukes beat Robert Morris 87-58 three years after they made the NCAA tournament. Tonight was Dambrot's first such win. Nee, Porter, and Edgar never had any.

In the past 18 years, this is the sixth game we've had a lead of at least 40 points in. The distinguishing characteristic from the other five is the opponent. Montana might not be the team they were a few years ago, but they still were above 500 last year in a decent conference. The other five games we had 40 point leads in since 2004 came against: Delaware St. in a 21-75 stretch over three years, two games against division 2 Bluefield St, Houston Christian in just their fourth year in division 1, and Howard who hadn't finished over .300 in five years.

I'm trying really hard not to get too excited about this one since we've seen early highlights result in pitiful finishes many times before. Still this one did look different. Grant shot the lights out and looks to be the kind of scorer we haven't had in quite some time. Hronsky looked like a fifth year senior rather than the true freshman he is.

The biggest thing to me is that it all started with defense. I was surprised to see we only forced 13 turnovers, because it felt like much more than that. We didn't get caught out of position pressuring for those turnovers though. The rotation was solid and we shut down their offense inside and out. Then after forcing those many misses we dominated the glass.

To make things even better it was a true team win. 11 guys played, 10 scored at least 3 points, 10 had at least 2 rebounds, and 8 had steals. We have both top flight talent unlike we've had in quite some time and legitimate A-10 depth (and of course that doesn't even include Brewer).

It will take a miracle (not to mention an off game from them) to beat Kentucky, but at least we're getting them early. If Evansville, VMI, and Gardner-Webb can beat them early, why not Duquesne? Still I'm even more excited for this season than I was yesterday because this looks to be Dambrot's most talented team, best team, best coaching staff, and team most built in his image. Okay rant over, I'll go back to trying to contain my excitement over one game.