Duquesne Dukes
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| University | Duquesne University |
| Conference | Atlantic 10 Conference, Football- Northeast Conference |
| NCAA | Division I / FCS |
| Athletic director | Dave Harper |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Varsity teams | 17 |
| Football stadium | Arthur J. Rooney Athletic Field |
| Basketball arena | A. J. Palumbo Center |
| Mascot | Duke |
| Nickname | Dukes |
| Fight song | "The Victory Song (Red and Blue)" |
| Colors | Red and Blue |
| Website | www |
The Duquesne Dukes are the athletic teams of Duquesne University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Dukes compete in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Football competes in the Northeast Conference, however.
A member of the Atlantic 10 Conference, Duquesne University sponsors teams in six men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports:
Men's Intercollegiate Sports
Women's Intercollegiate Sports
The Dukes men's basketball team has had great success over the years, playing twice in national championship games in the 1950s and winning the National Invitation Tournament championship in 1955. (At the time, the NIT was far more prestigious than it is now.) The men's basketball Dukes annually play their cross-town rival, the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, in Pittsburgh's much anticipated and highly attended City Game. The current head coach is Jim Ferry, who was hired in the spring of 2012.
The Dukes women's basketball team also plays the University of Pittsburgh every year in the women's version of the City Game.
A Duquesne Dukes men's basketball player's heart ailment serves as the major plot device for the pilot episode of Pittsburgh-based CBS medical drama Three Rivers.
Duquesne has played football as a club team from 1891–1894, 1896–1903, 1913–1914, and 1920–1928, in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) from 1929–1942 and 1947–1950, again as a club team from 1969–1978, in NCAA Division III from 1979–1992, and in the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) from 1993–present. The Dukes have won or shared 15 conference championships in the past 22 years.
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