Dukes 4½ point underdogs; O/U 145½

Forbes & Magee wrote:

Surprising line. I was expecting -10 DePaul.

Line has bumped up to 5½; O/U down a point to 144½.

Can we win? Yes

Will we? Not unless someone gets Hot and Maximus helps us more than he will hurt us.

Go Dukes

If they lose, this will be a challenge for our new coach not to lose the team this early in the year.

in the meantime the start of the game will be shown on the FOX SPORTS APP

Gonna be a long year.

I didn't have "Players Regressing" on my bingo card.

Frustrating watch.

Duquesne is in for a very long year,cant shoot,dont play defense,cant even make free throws.Looks like Dukes from 3 seasons ago.

Embarrassing final minutes of this one with DePaul subs coming off the bench and dunking, and scoring layups at will against Duquesne starters.  Just a total breakdown in the end. 
I didn’t expect a win at DePaul, but hoped for a competitive game with the team starting to take shape and define roles, but this was a giant step backward.

I lost count of how many times last year (even we’ll before the season-ending run)  I said “this isn’t the Duquesne of old.” Tonight looked like so many Dukes teams we’ve all seen before. I’m trying not to get too far down because I felt there were some positives to take out of even two losses to start the season. I’m struggling to find the thinnest silver lining in this one.

I absolutely credit Holtman; as I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a team change as much as they have in just one year. They may prove to be a good team. They aren’t 26 points better than us though. We got thoroughly outcoached tonight.

I’ll be honest and tell you I don’t know what they were doing to cause it; but there were at least four or five times they managed to get Rozier in the paint alone trying to defend a big guy. I realize mismatches are going to happen on switches, but that’s the kind of thing that cannot happen repeatedly.  I’ll also credit Kareem because I don’t know that they actually scored on any of them. The desire was there all night (that’s the silver lining I struggled to find), but the execution was downright awful.

I don’t know if anyone else saw the beginning (or god forbid was there in person), but I didn’t. Apparently Edwards was dominating while the other game was still being aired. Once they switched over it looked like more of the same though. He takes over too much of the offense when he’s in and then disappears on defense. I was thrilled when he chose Duquesne out of the portal, and am trying not to lose that excitement so early in the season, but he doesn’t seem like a good fit so far.

I’m not surprised by any of these losses individually. I’m not even shocked we’re 0-3. Lipscomb and Princeton are likely NCAA tournament teams and DePaul is a Big East team who looks like they actually belong in the league now. The team just hasn’t looked like I expected a Dru Joyce team would. Luckily we’ll get a breather on either side of the tournament, but there are some good teams in the field. There are a lot of problems to fix. Unfortunately I’m feeling the same as everyone else after that showing. It could be a long season.

Another tough loss but this one hurts more than the other 2 with very little positives to take from it. Most momentum the program has had in 50+ years and certainly the best situation for an incoming coach. Outsiders are going to question whether Dru is qualified for this - I can say I still believe and we’ll turn this around. Druquesne

Looked up the box score on espn. Nacas is clearly the best all around player for the Dukes. He rebounded and had the most assists. Problem is he does not shoot or these new transfers or the coaches fail to run the offense thru him. This team had very few assist. This offense is like watching an AAU game. I don’t expect things to change come Tuesdays game & worse yet the Cayman Islands. Again look at the box scores for the Dukes last three games. Very telling.