The Duquesne Dukes (4-5) look to build upon the UMass Lowell win last Saturday as they host the Maryland Eastern Shore Hawks (6-8) tomorrow at 2:00 pm ET at the A.J. Palumbo Center.
The Dukes are returning from a 79-63 win against UMass Lowell on Saturday, Dec. 20 that ended the team’s four-game losing streak. Duquesne shot .518 from the field and attained a Jim Ferry era-best 12-of-20 (.600) from the 3-point range. Junior guard Micah Mason led the Dukes with 17 points, hitting all five of his 3-point attempts.
Duquesne leads the series 2-0 at Pittsburgh, having never met at Princess Anne, Md. This is the first meeting between the two teams since a 74-71 Duquesne overtime win on December 31, 2002.
Maryland Eastern Shore won their last contest on December 22 in an 82-80 win at St. Bonaventure. This victory marked the first time the Hawks had defeated a current Atlantic 10 team in 45 years prior to their 72-66 win at Fordham on Nov. 29. The team has won five of its past seven games and is 3-5 on the road.
The Hawks finished last year with a 6-24 record in its first season under head coach Bobby Collins. Collins led Winston-Salem to the NCAA Division II tournament in three of his last four seasons before coming to Maryland Eastern Shore.
The game will be covered by the Atlantic 10 Digital Network (http://www.atlantic10.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?&db_oem_id=31600&mid=80312), ESPN 970 AM, iHeartRadio, 3WS HD2, and streaming Red Zone Media (http://www.redzonemedia.com/viewschedule.asp?sportID=2&SchoolID=52).
