Blowing VCU out of the building. Man does the A10 suck though. Cant believe Dayton finished 3rd and VCU 5th. I cant say I am happy for the Dukes. Im jealous. And maybe that's good if we can develop a rivalry with them
Well, Duquesne is IN
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Dambrot may retire and he is a really good coach. They will fall off bigly if he leaves.
Thank god there’s a tournament team in Pittsburgh!
Probably the only one from Pennsylvania. I guess Dayton is also the only Ohio representative. Who would have guessed this?
Jealous of a school that hasn’t made the tournament in 50 years?
If Dambrot retires and passes the keys to Joyce, then they could continue moving forward if LBJ and others back their NIL.
I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s possible because they are the site host.
It seems like all indications were that he was calling it quits after this year in any event. For reasons that don't have anything to do with basketball.
That's interesting, because you are not allowed to play on your home court, but PPG isn't Duquesne's home court. And they have not played more than three games there this season.
I think Akron won the MAC... thanks to a Weber timeout-esque moment.
I think that rule doesn't apply if you're the site host.
I don't think the site host can play in their site, no matter how many games they've played there.
What is the highest seed to ever be allowed to play on the same court they are hosting or even the same city in the opening round?
Well you aren't allowed to play on your home court any more. At one point, a long time ago, you could and schools did play on their home courts all the time. For a Pitt example, our loss to NC State in 1974 in the Elite Eight was at Reynolds Coliseum, NC State's home court.
But off the top of my head, I don't know the answer to your question. We played in Pittsburgh as a three seed. The NCAA used to say that a top five seed could be seeded in their home city. I don't know if any fives ever got that advantage.
They could build a nice house with all these bricks.
“Fall off”? They haven’t finished better than tied for 5th in 7 years of being there, haven’t made the NCAA Tourney, and are trying to throw away this game.
Hell, Everhart had a better overall winning percentage and conference winning percentage when the league was better.
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Duquesne just had a stretch where they made one out of 22 shots. But they still have an eight point lead.
1986 LSU was an 11 seed and played their first two games on their home floor. Ended up going to the Final Four.
Not for nothing, but wouldn’t it have to be played before the rule was in place?
I mean the rule prohibiting a team from playing on their home court was put in place later.
Duquesne shot 29.8% for the game. Their five starters went a combined 10-45, 22.2% from the field.
And they won.
And they won.
I have a lot of happy family and friends today- congrats to Keith Dambrot and the Dukes!
Glad for them. They have been an awful of a program for decades. Won 20 last year and 24 this year making the tournament for first time in almost 50 years. I never saw them when they were good, but I knew a couple of their past head coaches and it’s damn near impossible to win there, so credit to their coach and players.
Started hot on O, went super cold but toughness, defense and rebounding allowed them to hold on.
Good for the Dukes! They have been largely irrelevant for the last 47 years. Great moment for them and their alumni and students!
I was surprised by how bad VCU was. And I thought Duquesne was legit more talented than Dayton
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