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Coaching is in Dru Joyce III's DNA. Duquesne's new head coach is eager to join the family business
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Coaching is essentially baked into Dru Joyce III's DNA. His father is a basketball coach. His brother, too. So when Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot called Joyce in the spring of 2022 and asked his former point guard to help him turn around a program more than 40...
Welcome to 'Dru-quesne.' Duquesne promotes Dru Joyce to take over after Keith Dambrot's retirement
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Duquesne didn't look far to replace retired head coach Keith Dambrot. The Dukes promoted assistant Dru Joyce on Thursday to take over for Dambrot, who stepped down last week after leading the school to its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1977. ...
Illinois finally gets past opening weekend of March Madness with 89-63 rout of Duquesne
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Illinois fans had been waiting since 2005 for their team to get back to the NCAA Tournament's Sweet 16. Their patience was finally rewarded. Coach Brad Underwood made a point to salute the ones who accompanied the team to Omaha for the first weekend of the...
Illinois sees Duquesne in the way of its first Sweet 16 in nearly 2 decades of March Madness
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Brad Underwood smirked and almost imperceptibly shook his head when the question was asked: What would it mean for Illinois to finally make it back to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament for the first time in nearly two decades? “If we're fortunate,”...
Put up your Dukes! No. 11 seed Duquesne provides some March Madness with NCAA upset of BYU
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — As his players celebrated around him after springing the first big upset of the NCAA Tournament, Duquesne coach Keith Dambrot joked that they had refused to let their retiring coach reach “the promised land” with their down-to-the-wire win over BYU. The...
March Madness: Long before Duquesne spent 47 years in anonymity, a progressive approach led to glory
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Before Duquesne slid into basketball anonymity and nearly five decades of what coach Keith Dambrot only semi-jokingly describes as “anguish,” there was glory. Lots of it. Dambrot heard the tales firsthand from his father Sid, a guard and...
Keith Dambrot returned Duquesne to the NCAAs just as he promised. Now it's time to walk away
Keith Dambrot didn't want to overstay his welcome. Didn't want his love of his chosen profession to morph into something far less joyous. The Duquesne coach was “80% sure” last summer that this season would be his last, a number that spiked to 100% when his wife, Donna, was...
Duquesne earns first NCAA Tournament bid in 47 years, beating VCU 57-51 in A-10 championship game
Duquesne colored red, white and blue streamers fell from the rafters at Barclays Center with the Dukes leading by 15 in the Atlantic 10 Tournament championship game, their first NCAA Tournament bid in 47 years in reach. Problem was, there was still about 18 minutes left to play. ...
