Tag: Duquesne Basketball

Duquesne’s Keith Dambrot jokingly credited upset win over BYU on his players not letting him retire

Duquesne’s season should have ended weeks ago, but Keith Dambrot won’t be riding off into the sunset just yet.

The Duquesne Dukes men’s basketball team has been winning so much that head coach Keith Dambrot, who announced his retirement earlier this week, jokingly credited his team for not letting him get to retirement life sooner.

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Duquesne has been playing some good basketball. They’re on a roll, and since February 28, they have won nine games straight. That winning streak includes an upset win over BYU during Thursday’s first round of NCAA tournament play. The win is actually really special because head coach Keith Dambrot had previously never won an NCAA Division I tournament game.

After the matchup, Hambrot was asked how his team’s clutch play helped them meet the moment. Hambrot joked that his team won’t let him retire.

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How LeBron James became Duquesne’s biggest fan during March Madness (hint: their coaches)

Duquesne has one major fan in LeBron James. Here’s why.

The Duquesne men’s basketball team upset BYU on Thursday to win its first March Madness game in 55 years, and LeBron James was as hyped as anyone to see it happen.

Duquesne is led by coach Keith Dambrot, who was James’ high school coach at St. Vincent-St. Mary for two seasons. The team’s associate coach, Dru Joyce III, was one of James’ teammates at the school, and Joyce’s father was a coach and mentor to James when he was 10 years old.

A film about James’ high school days, Shooting Stars, came out last year on Peacock. Stranger Things star Caleb McLaughlin played Joyce III, while Dermot Mulroney played Dambrot, Oregon basketball player Mookie Cook played James and Wood Harris played Joyce II.

All of those close connections makes James the most notable person cheering Duquesne on in this year’s tournament, as its historic win over BYU on Thursday sparked James to send out a few congratulatory messages on Twitter (X).

James also hooked up the Duquesne team with basketball shoes before its big game on Thursday.

This is a really neat connection that will be worth following for the duration of Duquesne’s March Madness run, one the Los Angeles Lakers superstar (and many more) will be watching intently.

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The UberEats guy who interrupted Duquesne’s men’s hoops game might, shockingly, have been fake

A prank? For a video? Shocking!

Hey, did you catch that absolutely bizarre moment from Wednesday night’s Loyola Chicago and Duquesne men’s hoops game in which a delivery person from UberEats interrupted the action on the floor?

Yeah. Wild stuff. Who ordered food to be delivered in the middle of a game? Was it a referee who needed a McDonald’s fix during the contest?

Well, in shocking news to absolutely NO ONE, it turns out the whole thing might have been fake.

Austin Hansen, Loyola’s assistant athletics director, tweeted a video of his view of the action and had a few observations: That it was DoorDash, not UberEats; that he didn’t order it; and that it was probably a prank:

Yep.

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A Loyola Chicago game was hilariously halted by an Uber Eats delivery guy walking onto the court

WHO let him in???

Update: The UberEats guy who interrupted Duquesne’s men’s hoops game might, shockingly, have been fake

When the Men’s college basketball teams for Loyola Chicago and Duquesne squared off in Pittsburgh Wednesday night, both squads understandably expected a game that would go off without a hitch. Everyone would compete hard, work through a solid two halves, and go home.

That is, until someone at the game grew rather hungry. Did they perhaps go to the stadium concession stand, likely only a few minutes’ walk away from wherever they were sitting? Dearest Reader — oh heavens no.

In the early stages of the second half of this college basketball matchup, an Uber Eats delivery person walked onto the court — in the middle of the game — holding a McDonald’s order. The person was eventually so close to the action that one of the officials was actually forced to temporarily stop the game.

No, seriously. It’s as incredible as it sounds.

Is there anything better than two announcers who have never seen something like this happen before? I’m convinced the commentators are who actually sold this hilarious moment. Well, they and the officials who clearly were taken aback, too.

As for who the McDonald’s food was actually for, well, it was a random fan who had the “fortune” of appearing on the video board:

By the night’s end, bettors who wanted Duquesne to win (with a robust -7.5 pregame spread) got their wish. The Dukes would prevail 72-58 and capture their 14th win of the season. And, thanks to a clearly very hungry fan, they had a unique journey to victory for all involved.