It took a while, but the Duquesne women’s basketball team reached its magic number once again on Wednesday-20.
After a 73-64 overtime thriller against U Mass at the Palumbo Center on Wednesday night, Duquesne became just a handful of teams in the country to hit the 20-win plateau for the eighth consecutive season.
Sitting now at 20-2, this season is the fastest they have reached that mark as the Dukes now sit in a first-place tie atop the Atlantic 10 Conference.
April Robinson led Duquesne (20-2, 8-1 A-10) with 20 points. Deva’Nyar Workman also came up big in the win with 17 points and career-high 15 rebounds and seven assists.
Chassidy Omogrosso hit a couple of big three-pointers in overtime and finished with 17 points off the bench.
Everyone contributed for Duquesne as Kadri-Ann Lass also broke a school record with eight blocks.
U Mass led by eight after one quarter and the Dukes cut that in half by halftime, heading into the locker room down just 35-31. The U Mass lead stretched back to eight in the third quarter and led by five at 45-40 heading into the fourth.
Duquesne took a lead on a Workman coast-to-coast layup, but U Mass regained a 56-54 lead with 20 seconds remaining. Workman slashed to the basket with 6.6 remaining to tie the game and send it into overtime.
U Mass scored the first basket of overtime before Omogrosso answered with back-to-back three-pointers. Duquesne never trailed again and closed the game on a 9-2 run.
U Mass (6-15, 0-9 A-10) was led by Bria Stallworth who scored a game-high 21 points.
Duquesne hits the road next when they travel to Davidson (10-13, 4-6 A-10) on Saturday.
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