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1:00pm EDT tip on Sunday 03/19/2023 at the Ocean Center, Daytona Beach, FL - CBI Tournament First Round - FloHoops Network
Per KenPom (363 D-1 Teams):
Dukes #125 (20-12) vs Rice University Owls #213 (18-15; 15-15 vs D-1)
Game prediction: Dukes win by 5, 83-78 - Dukes with a 67% probability of a win.
Per Haslametrics:
Dukes #114 vs Rice #242
Game prediction: Dukes win by 8½, 79.79-71.29
Betting line: Dukes are 6 point favorites; Over/Under 159½
Duquesne 17-15 Against the Spread: Rice 13-16 ATS
Duquesne Game Notes:
Rice Game Notes:
Sports Reference College Basketball Team Pages:
Duquesne:
Rice:
Dukes KenPom Best Wins: VCU (59); Indiana St. (96); UCSB (109); Colgate (114); DePaul (139); George Mason (146); Montana (160); Ball St. (167)
Dukes KenPom Worst Losses: La Salle (225): UMass (210); St. Bonaventure (200); New Mexico St (187); Richmond (150); Davidson (138); Fordham-2 (137); Saint Louis (94); Marshall (82); Dayton (78)
Rice KenPom Best Wins: North Texas (45); Charlotte (120); Western Kentucky-2 (182); Texas St. (190); UTEP-2 (194); Georgia Southern (207)
Rice KenPom Worst Losses: UTSA (290); FIU (217); Pepperdine (185); Louisiana Tech-2 (172); Middle Tennessee-2 (121); Charlotte (120); UAB-3 (52); North Texas (45); Florida Atlantic-2 (22); Texas (5)
Shooting Percentage Offense/Defense (per KenPom)
Dukes 3 Point: Offense 36.5%, 48 in D-1; Defense 35.3%, 262 in D-1
Rice 3 Point: Offense 35.3%, 103 in D-1; Defense 37.1%, 334 in D-1
Dukes 2 Point: Offense 48.6%, 249 in D-1; Defense 48.8%, 110 in D-1
Rice 2 Point: Offense 53.7%, 47 in D-1; Defense 54.0%, 326 in D-1
Dukes FT: Offense 68.8%, 289 in D-1; Defense 69.3%, 55 in D-1
Rice FT: Offense 73.8%, 105 in D-1; Defense 69.4%, 67 in D-1
Points per Possession and Number of Possessions (per KenPom)
Rice Adj Offense Efficiency - 107.4; 130 in D-1 vs Dukes Adj Defense Efficiency - 104.5; 161 in D-1
Rice Adj Defense Efficiency - 110.6; 290 in D-1 vs Dukes Adj Offense Efficiency - 108.5; 107 in D-1
Rice Adj Tempo - 69.9; 49 in D-1 vs Dukes Adj Tempo - 68.2; 138 in D-1
Miscellaneous (per KenPom)
D-1 Experience - Rice 2.24 yrs; 117 in D-1; Dukes 2.14 yrs; 137 in D-1
Average Height - Rice 77.0"; 190 in D-1; Dukes 75.9"; 334 in D-1
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Numbers are saying Rice's defense is suspect. Let's drop 85 plus on them.
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Thanks Phoenix for these pregame analysis. Hopefully you will only have to do this three more times this season
GO DUKES 👊
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CLK wrote:
Thanks Phoenix for these pregame analysis. Hopefully you will only have to do this three more times this season
GO DUKES 👊
You're welcome! I would really welcome the chance to do this 3 more times this month.
I'm hoping for a good showing.
Last edited by PhoenixRising2 (3/18/2023 1:35 pm)
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With a win over Rice, the Dukes will play Southern Utah, a 72-50 winner today over North Alabama.
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On the plane & on the way to Daytona Beach to meet Styles1229. Go Dukes!
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phil95 wrote:
On the plane & on the way to Daytona Beach to meet Styles1229. Go Dukes!
Way to represent and support this team. Have to admit that I’m a bit jealous. Enjoy yourselves and bring home a few wins.
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PhoenixRising2 wrote:
phil95 wrote:
On the plane & on the way to Daytona Beach to meet Styles1229. Go Dukes!
Way to represent and support this team. Have to admit that I’m a bit jealous. Enjoy yourselves and bring home a few wins.
I myself am a bit jealous. Phil, about how many people travel to away games like you and Styles?
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Gotta play our A game dont take them lightly they can put points on the board.
Go Dukes
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They aren’t on IHeart yet. They are still playing ESPN National.
Rice site is at
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Well it took me almost an hour to figure out how to get Flo working on my TV, but when I finally did the Dukes we’re winning…Rice is on a 9-0 run since then and now leads 28-20. Maybe I should turn it off.
Last edited by luckymcd (3/19/2023 1:02 pm)
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Dukes are rusty except for Dae Dae and Dixon
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More Rotroff. Less Gunn.
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Well now I know the answer to the the question of whether or not we should go to the CBI!!!
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See y’all next year
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Yep, myself and many others said save the money for recruiting trips instead of the CBI. This was predictable given how we finished the season losing 4 of 6. Sounded like a lot of the same issues looking at the box score. Well at least we won't need to hear anymore about how good of a shooter R J Gunn is.....There is a reason guys are D2 Keith. Maybe Williams can shoot 10,000 2' during the off season. Very disappointing but no surprise. KD better keep who we need to keep and get some quality missing pieces. Let's see how we do on retention and recruiting boys. Pistol out.
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I’m ticked!!!
Yes, I was one who said don’t go because Dambrot CHOKES in tournaments. So he was 3-6 at his MAC School. Look at the end of the year down the stretch games. I can’t wait to hear those of you who have a low bar or no bar say how great Dambrot is and how this helped us. Loved watching Pitt n Xavier when the announcers said Xavier’s coach was fired last year AFTER winning the NIT because of their standards. So many of you, who have no standards probably want Dambrots contract extended after two one and done tournaments. You will say how grateful we should be that he came here… we are getting what we deserve. What’s sad is the AD is now thinking like this. Same old Duquesne… except we paid a bunch of $$ to have the opportunity to lose another one. But hey, WAIT TIL next year!!!
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FAM wrote:
I’m ticked!!!
Yes, I was one who said don’t go because Dambrot CHOKES in tournaments. So he was 3-6 at his MAC School. Look at the end of the year down the stretch games. I can’t wait to hear those of you who have a low bar or no bar say how great Dambrot is and how this helped us. Loved watching Pitt n Xavier when the announcers said Xavier’s coach was fired last year AFTER winning the NIT because of their standards. So many of you, who have no standards probably want Dambrots contract extended after two one and done tournaments. You will say how grateful we should be that he came here… we are getting what we deserve. What’s sad is the AD is now thinking like this. Same old Duquesne… except we paid a bunch of $$ to have the opportunity to lose another one. But hey, WAIT TIL next year!!!
I was also bummed at us for accepting the Charlie Brown Invitational. All that it proved was what we already knew. We have one very good D-1 player (Grant). Of those coming back, we have two serviceable D-1 players in Clark and Dixon. And that about raps it up!
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Defense was bad for 30ish minutes & the live ball turnovers made it impossible for the Dukes to win.
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WashPaRick wrote:
Numbers are saying Rice's defense is suspect. Let's drop 85 plus on them.
Shoulda listened to me.
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phil95 wrote:
Defense was bad for 30ish minutes & the live ball turnovers made it impossible for the Dukes to win.
That pretty much sums it up. I was there.
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I'm starting to believe that we are seeing the future of Duquesne basketball. Think this may be a high point of what we will have over the next few seasons or until the powers that be would like to see something more. If you believe that will happen anytime soon, I have some cheap ocean front property for sale in Nebraska for you! Very frustrated!!!!!!!!
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Pathetic