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PITTSBURGH — Darius Perrantes threw six touchdown passes and Tedy Afful had more than 200 receiving yards as Duquesne clinched a share of the Northeast Conference championship with a 42-21 win over Wagner on Saturday afternoon. The Dukes (8-2) are now 5-0 in conference play and can clinch the outright...

CHICAGO — Isaiah Rivera’s 18 points helped DePaul defeat Duquesne, 84-58, on Friday night. It was the Dukes’ third straight loss to start the season. Rivera went 7 of 9 from the field (4 for 6 from 3-point range) for the Blue Demons (4-0). David Skogman scored 16 points and...

Almost immediately after Jahsean Corbett entered the NCAA transfer portal during college basketball’s latest offseason, Duquesne came calling. “They actually hit me up 5 minutes after I entered,” Corbett said. Luckily for the Dukes, the versatile, 6-foot-6 senior guard/forward, who played three seasons at Chicago State, was receptive and eventually...

Darius Perrantes and John Erby became friends while at Rhode Island, and they’ve remained close years later at Duquesne. That bond never was stronger than Saturday at Rooney Field. Perrantes threw four touchdown passes — three to Erby — and No. 25 Duquesne raced to its seventh straight victory, 31-6...

Duquesne fell to 0-2 on the young season after a 75-68 loss to Princeton on Friday night at Cure Insurance Arena. Princeton used a 12-3 run in the final minutes to secure the victory. “It’s tough. It slipped away from us,” Duquesne coach Dru Joyce III told reporters after the...

The backyard football rivalry between Duquesne and Robert Morris is on again after a four-year hiatus and with a berth in the FCS playoffs in sight. Both teams enter the regular-season home stretch undefeated in Northeast Conference play, each with three games remaining. “Should be a great showing of two...

Dru Joyce III is 0-1 as a college basketball coach. So, too, are his defending Atlantic 10 champion Duquesne Dukes after a deflating 77-72 loss to Lipscomb kicked off a new season Monday night. It was billed as “Duquesne Basketball Palooza,” a season-opening event featuring a doubleheader at UPMC Cooper...

On a majority of college basketball teams nowadays, the adage fits: “You can’t tell the players without a program.” It’s particularly true at Duquesne, where six of seven transfers are eligible for Monday night’s season-opening game against Atlantic Sun Conference preseason favorite Lipscomb at 8 p.m. as part of a...

When Chandler McCabe flew to Pittsburgh in March to be introduced as Robert Morris’ women’s basketball coach, it snowed. Welcome to Western Pennsylvania, Florida girl. But the frosty weather couldn’t cool the Orlando native’s enthusiasm to step into her first head coaching job. Hired March 18, McCabe will try to...

As the Duquesne men’s basketball team approached the 2024-25 season, it sold something to recruits and potential incoming transfers that you wouldn’t have assumed it had. Stability. That’s not a quality one would associate with a team that’s going through a coaching change and a quest to replace three of...

Dae Dae Grant, Duquesne’s leading scorer in men’s basketball last season while leading the Dukes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 47 years, has signed a professional contract with KK Feniks 2010 Skopje of the First League North Macedonia. The 6-foot-2 guard is the sixth former Duquesne player to...

Many in Pittsburgh are anxiously awaiting Russell Wilson’s debut as the Steelers quarterback. That’s expected to happen this Sunday at Acrisure Stadium against the New York Jets. One of those who will be watching closely is Darius Perrantes. The Duquesne senior has crafted much of his game in the mold...

LORETTO — Ty Howard returned an interception 40 yards to open the scoring, and Darius Perrantes threw two touchdown passes and Duquesne rolled to a 38-7 win over St. Francis (Pa.) on Saturday. The defending Northeast Conference champion Dukes (4-2, 2-0) led 17-0 at the half, and when the Red...

It took just two seasons for Duquesne forward David Dixon to feel the rush of winning consistently in college basketball games. Far from satisfied, even after being part of consecutive 20-win seasons at Duquesne for the first time since 1971 and ’72, Dixon dreams of yet another run at success....

PITTSBURGH — Darius Perrantes threw five touchdown passes and ran for a sixth as Duquesne ran away from Long Island University, 47-21, in the Northeast Conference opener for both schools Saturday. Perrantes bracketed an 18-yard touchdown to Tedy Afful and a 45-yard strike to Joey Isabella around a 9-yard scoring...

The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament will return to PPG Paints Arena in 2027 for the sixth time, with Duquesne back as the host school, SportsPITTSBURGH and the Pittsburgh Bid Committee announced Wednesday. It will be the eighth time since 1997 that first- and second-round games will be held in Pittsburgh....

Trips to the Cayman Islands and Akron, Ohio, will be part of Duquesne’s 109th season of men’s basketball before the Atlantic 10 season begins New Year’s Eve. Duquesne released its 2024-25 schedule Tuesday. Duquesne will play three games in three days in the Cayman Islands Classic, beginning at 1:30 p.m....

Duquesne men’s basketball coach Dru Joyce received his first verbal commitment from the class of 2025 when three-star guard Arness Lawson said he plans to enroll next year. 100% committed… thanks to the whole coaching staff @ Duquesne for giving me the opportunity and believing in me❤️ #GODUKES pic.twitter.com/Cl5Edw4DdB— Arness...

BOSTON — Thomas Castellanos threw for 234 yards and four touchdowns in the first half before new Boston College coach Bill O’Brien went to his bench Saturday as the Eagles followed up their upset of then-No. 10 Florida State by routing FCS Duquesne, 56-0. Darius Perrantes completed 8 of 18...

It’s not like the Duquesne football team was oblivious to what they were getting in Boston College as a Week 2 opponent when the schedule was released. An ACC school. On the road. Potential NFL players on the other sideline. Former Penn State head coach and New England Patriots offensive...