NCAA Tournament March Madness

#146 Duquesne

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Projected seed: 13 (automatic qualifier)

Duquesne’s résumé reads like a team that can dominate lesser opponents at home but has yet to prove it can beat quality teams away from campus, with the most encouraging moment coming on the road at Villanova where it played well in defeat while its best wins came against Niagara, Sacred Heart, Queens NC and Loyola Maryland at home. The more worrying signals are a neutral loss to Northeastern and a home setback to William & Mary that undercut the résumé and highlight inconsistency. Upcoming nonconference road trips to Boise State and Nevada offer the kind of true road tests that would change how the committee views this profile, and the Atlantic Ten slate includes a mix of manageable home dates like Canisius and critical tests against the league’s better teams such as VCU, Dayton, St Bonaventure, Rhode Island and Davidson that present clear opportunities to add the quality wins the team lacks. Until Duquesne stacks a few of those resume-enhancing results away from home or on neutral floors, its standing will rest on strong home form against weaker opposition and a handful of competitive performances in tough venues.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3Niagara351W83-63
11/7Sacred Heart288W92-80
11/11Queens NC190W87-81
11/15@Villanova37L87-77
11/19Loyola MD333W92-78
11/22(N)Northeastern210L93-86
12/2William & Mary127L83-79
12/6Stony Brook205W84-75
12/10@Boise St4411%
12/13@Nevada8722%
12/22Canisius35295%
12/30@Davidson13435%
1/3VCU4325%
1/7@St Joseph's PA18047%
1/13Dayton6933%
1/17@Fordham22656%
1/20St Louis4223%
1/24@Loyola-Chicago29167%
1/28St Bonaventure10748%
2/1Rhode Island10648%
2/4@George Mason6816%
2/7G Washington8138%
2/14@St Bonaventure10727%
2/18La Salle25279%
2/21@Dayton6916%
2/25Davidson13457%
2/28@St Louis4210%
3/4@Rhode Island10627%
3/7Richmond10046%