When coach Keith Dambrot predicted that Duquesne’s basketball game Wednesday night against winless Alabama State would be “a hard game,” he wasn’t kidding. “They beat us up on the boards,” Dambrot said following the injury-riddled Dukes’ 75-57 victory at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse. “We haven’t really gotten crushed up like that.
Keith Dambrot was looking for a bounce-back game from Duquesne on Monday, three days removed from a humbling trip to Lexington, Ky., and a meeting with the No. 4 Wildcats. The Dukes responded to their coach in resounding fashion, scoring from seemingly everywhere, and ran past South Carolina State, 96-71,