Duquesne Dukes men's basketball
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| University | Duquesne University | |||
| Conference | Atlantic 10 | |||
| Location | Pittsburgh, PA | |||
| Head coach | Jim Ferry (5th year) | |||
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A. J. Palumbo Center (Capacity: 4,406) |
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| Nickname | Dukes | |||
| Colors | Red and Blue |
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| NCAA Tournament Final Four | ||||
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| NCAA Tournament Elite Eight | ||||
| 1940 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | ||||
| 1969, 1940 | ||||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | ||||
| 1940, 1952, 1969, 1971, 1977 | ||||
| Conference tournament champions | ||||
| 1977 | ||||
| Conference regular season champions | ||||
| 1980, 1981 | ||||
The Duquesne Dukes represent Duquesne University in college basketball. The team, which started in 1914, has only ever played in NCAA Division I and has had five appearances in the NCAA Tournament. The Dukes play in the Atlantic 10 Conference, of which they have been members since 1976 (minus the 1992–93 season in which the Dukes were single-season members of the Midwestern Collegiate Conference).
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. Duquesne also won the 1976–77 Eastern Collegiate Basketball League championship (the forerunner to the Eastern Athletic Association, now known as the Atlantic 10 Conference) and 1979–80 and 1980–81 Eastern Athletic Association regular season co-championships.
The Associated Press ranked Duquesne as the No. 1 college basketball team in the country for two consecutive weeks during the 1953-54 season.
Duquesne is the only school to have back-to-back first overall picks in the National Basketball Association Draft (Dick Ricketts by the Saint Louis Hawks in 1955 and Sihugo Green by the Rochester Royals in 1956). The Dukes men's basketball program can also claim the first African-American player selected in an NBA draft (Chuck Cooper by the Boston Celtics in 1950). The 1939–40 Dukes basketball team finished with a 20–3 record and appeared in the Final Four of both the NIT and NCAA Tournaments.
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