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Duquesne’s Tyson Acuff enters transfer portal
Tyson Acuff, a second-year guard who was one of only four holdovers from the 2020-2021 Duquesne men’s basketball team, put his name in the NCAA transfer portal Friday. Acuff joins Toby Okani and freshman guard Jackie Johnson III as players who have announced plans to transfer from Duquesne. After scoring...
First Call: Steelers scouting under-the-radar QB prospect; Browns holding on Baker Mayfield; Ravens extend coach, not QB
Wednesday’s “First Call” introduces us to an off-the-radar quarterback that may be of interest to the Steelers. We’ve got updates from Baltimore and Cleveland on their QB situations. Eastern Conference chaos wasn’t restricted to the Penguins and Rangers Tuesday. And a familiar football name is coming back to Pittsburgh to...
Duquesne guard Jackie Johnson III enters NCAA transfer portal
After only one season at Duquesne, freshman guard Jackie Johnson III has entered his name in the NCAA transfer portal. Johnson (5-foot-11, 185 pounds) played in all 30 games for the Dukes this season, starting 11, and averaging 19.3 minutes per game. He was a valuable shooter from beyond the...
Duquesne’s 2022 football scheduled highlighted by trips to Florida State, Hawaii
Duquesne’s 2022 football schedule includes a pair of intriguing Football Bowl Subdivision opponents in addition to a seven-game NEC slate. The Dukes will open the season Aug. 27 in Tallahassee, taking on Florida State for the first time in program history. Duquesne also will travel to Hawaii for a Sept....
How hosting NCAA basketball tournament benefits Duquesne and Pittsburgh
It has been 45 years since the Duquesne men’s basketball team has been to the NCAA Tournament. As a participant, that is. While it’s been four-and-a-half decades since Duquesne received a coveted invitation to the Big Dance, it doesn’t mean it hasn’t been at the party. In fact, the Dukes...
Duquesne’s Toby Okani enters transfer portal
Duquesne forward Toby Okani has entered the NCAA transfer portal after spending two seasons with the Dukes. The 6-foot-8 Okani, who has three years of eligibility remaining, averaged 3.9 points and 3.7 rebounds per game this season in 30 games, 15 as a starter. While averaging 20.1 minutes, Okani shot...
Pitt, Duquesne, RMU among local basketball teams stuck in a rut
At a watering hole in Pittsburgh’s Greenfield section over the weekend, Guy Fieri’s “Tournament of Champions” was showing on two TVs. At the head of the room on a main screen, The Players Championship PGA Tour event was in plain view until someone changed the channel to ION, which was...
A closer look at the NCAA Tournament teams coming to Pittsburgh
All games Friday No. 7 Ohio State Tip time: 12:15 p.m. vs. Loyola Chicago Record: 19-11 Coach: Chris Holtmann Leading scorer: E.J. Liddell (19.6) How they got here: A 71-66 victory against Duke on Nov. 30 helped lead Ohio State to a 9-2 start, but the Buckeyes have lost four...
Villanova returns to Pittsburgh for NCAA Tournament
Villanova coach Jay Wright was a frequent visitor to Pittsburgh when Pitt was a member of the Big East. Since then, someone in the NCAA office apparently decided that if the first- and second-round games of the NCAA Tournament come to Pittsburgh, Wright’s Wildcats must be included. Villanova will be...
Memphis forward prospect commits to Duquesne basketball
A day after the season came to a close for the Duquesne men’s basketball team, planning for the 2022-23 season began. Coach Keith Dambrot and the Dukes received a commitment Thursday from David Dixon, a forward prospect from Memphis, Tenn. Dixon (6-8, 200) played this past season at the Teplitzky...
Duquesne men end season by tying losing streak record
Forget its unimaginable record, Duquesne was playing for pride. And, despite having won just six games — all in the first half of the season — it showed. The Dukes played like they knew how to win. They almost did. But, while it came down to the wire Wednesday in...
Kent State’s Carry, formerly of Duquesne, named Mid-American Player of Year 
CLEVELAND — Kent State’s strong season in the Mid-American Conference was rewarded with junior guard Sincere Carry being named the league’s top player and Rob Senderoff winning coach of the year honors. Forward Justyn Hamilton collected a third award for the Golden Flashes as the best sixth man. Carry averaged...
Tim Benz: Accelerated development of Mounir Hima a bright spot for Duquesne in 2022
Duquesne center Mounir Hima didn’t play any basketball as a child. Growing up in Tillaberi, Niger, soccer was his sport. “Me playing basketball is a destiny. I never thought about basketball,” Hima said Monday. “Basketball where I came from wasn’t a priority sport. You don’t even have a lot of...
Duquesne’s comeback bid vs. La Salle falls short, losing streak reaches 16
And now, Duquesne Nation turns its attention to the Atlantic 10 men’s basketball tournament. Will it be “one-and-done” for the hapless Dukes after they dropped their 16th consecutive game in their regular-season finale Saturday? Or can they extend their season, as freshman guard Primo Spears wondered after his career-high 34...
Tim Benz: Feeling nostalgic about college basketball after a rough year for the sport in Western Pa.
Nostalgia can be a wonderful thing in sports. Just look at the way Pittsburgh recently basked in the memories of Ben Roethlisberger’s career as he faded into retirement in January. We are also just getting back from our extended trip in the “way back machine” to relive Sidney Crosby’s journey...
McConnell brothers show pride as sister Megan carries on family tradition at Duquesne
In advance of his team’s Atlantic 10 tournament opener against St. Joseph’s on Thursday (5 p.m.), Duquesne women’s coach Dan Burt was discussing second-year guard Megan McConnell. For Burt, the description is easy. “Simply, she’s a McConnell,” Burt said. For those that follow basketball in the Pittsburgh area, that succinct...
Duquesne’s losing streak hits 15 games after triple-overtime loss at George Washington
Everybody wanted it, but nobody wanted it. Until George Washington decided it wasn’t going to be the one to end Duquesne’s monumental, 15-game losing streak. Joe Bamisile scored 30 points and George Washington survived Duquesne’s valiant bid for another elusive victory to come away with a 98-93 triple-overtime victory Wednesday...
NCAA Tournament returns to PPG Paints Arena carrying history of upsets
Dave Saba was there the first time the NCAA Tournament came to Pittsburgh. It was 1997, and the Civic Arena (where it all happened) was still standing. Today, that site features a big pile of dirt in an empty lot. Then, Saba was seen as an outsider from Texas whose...
Rhode Island cruises past Duquesne as Dukes drop 14th straight game
When things are going badly for a struggling basketball team, nothing should be a surprise. So, when Rhode Island’s Jeremy Sheppard took a lead pass from Malik Martin and dribbled to half court Saturday with the first-half clock winding down, Sheppard did what anyone else might do: He heaved the...
Duquesne’s Tre Williams will have season-ending surgery to repair knee injury
Duquesne center Tre Williams will have season-ending arthroscopic meniscus surgery early next week to repair an injury to his right knee suffered Wednesday late in the first half of a loss to Davidson. His recovery time has been set at four to six weeks, Duquesne officials said. “I feel bad...
Davidson stretches Duquesne’s losing streak to 13 games in a row
The night after former Duquesne point guard Sincere Carry scored 42 points for Kent State, the current Dukes lost their 13th game in a row Wednesday, 74-50, to Davidson. “You don’t think having him would have helped us?” coach Keith Dambrot said. Carry isn’t alone. Duquesne lost 11 players off...
Time to channel a little extra motivation if Duquesne is going to upset Davidson
Since Tuesday marked the 42nd anniversary of the 1980 Team USA hockey win over the Russians, maybe Duquesne basketball coach Keith Dambrot caught a rerun of the movie “Miracle” on television. Perhaps he can gin up a Herb Brooks-esque pregame speech. I mean the Dukes do wear red, white and...
Duquesne’s skid hits 12 after loss at St. Bonaventure
Duquesne’s free fall in basketball has reached 12 consecutive losses, but coach Keith Dambrot insisted he is not going to stop searching for a successful formula. “We’re just trying to find some guys who will compete and who care about winning and competing,” Dambrot said. “Even if they don’t win,...
Duquesne men lose 11th game in row
Duquesne has hit bottom. The last-place Dukes completed a stretch of three games in five days by sputtering to their 11th consecutive loss Wednesday night, in part because of a horrendous offensive showing against George Washington at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. Joe Bamisile scored 21 points to lead the visiting Colonials...
League-leading Davidson extends Duquesne’s losing streak to 10
Duquesne basketball coach Keith Dambrot — his team mired in a long losing streak — isn’t planning any new wrinkles just now. There’s no time, he said, with a schedule crammed with four games in eight days. “We just have to keep getting at it,” Dambrot said Monday night after...


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