The Duquesne Dukes—Let the dancing begin

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:10—Well, well, well, and you thought the big story coming out of this past weekend would be the Steelers and their new QBs. Guess again kids—How about them Duquesne Dukes punch­ing their ticket to The Big Dance by beating VCU in a close one, 57-51, to win the A-10 Tourney!! Stand­ing ovation and loud whistling to Coach Keith Dambrot and the team for closing out the season in high fashion, shocking the world and making it to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 47 years. Yeah, that’s right, the last time they went to the NCAA Tourney Jimmy Carter was Pres­ident, Rumours by Fleet­wood Mac won the Gram­my for Best Album and Norm Nixon was the star of the Dukes team. With a total team effort the Dukes ended the season, up to this point, with 8 straight wins and in their last 18 games went 15-3. Mighty impressive. In his seventh season Coach Dambrot has done what no one really thought he could do, take the Dukes to the tourney. Unbeliev­able, and with a Thursday, March 21 game against BYU at 12:40 p.m., I will be glued to the TV at a local establishment cheer­ing on an...

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