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Saint Louis vs. Duquesne
Saturday, March 8, 2025 | 7pm CT | St. Louis, Mo. (Chaifetz Arena)
Radio: 1120 KMOX/Varsity Network App (Bob Ramsey, Earl Austin Jr.)
TV: FanDuel Sports Network Extra (Tom Ackerman, Troy Robertson)
Stream: ESPN+
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
SLU Game Notes: Attached and available here
SETTING THE SCENE
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Saint Louis concludes the regular season on Saturday night when it hosts Duquesne at Chaifetz Arena for Senior Night. Game time is 7 p.m. The Senior Night ceremony honoring Gibson Jimerson, Kobe Johnson, Isaiah Swope and senior managers Justin Berryhill, Luke Nolan and Jordan Wilson will take place after the game.
FOLLOWING THE ACTION
- Saturday’s game will be televised on FanDuel Sports Network Extra and streamed on ESPN+. Tom Ackerman and Troy Robertson will call the action.
- KMOX 1120 AM is the home for SLU men’s basketball on the radio. Billiken Hall of Famers and longtime SLU men’s basketball radio partners Bob Ramsey and Earl Austin Jr. will the call the action for all SLU games, both at home and on the road. Ramsey is in his 39th season calling SLU games, while Austin is in year No. 34.
NEWS & NOTES
- Saint Louis enters the final game of the regular season in sixth place in the A-10 standings, one game out of a three-way tie for third with Dayton, Loyola Chicago and Saint Joseph’s at 11-6.
- In SLU’s last home game March 1 vs. Loyola Chicago, the Billikens broke the school record for 3-pointers made in a game with 18, and Gibson Jimerson broke the single-game individual record with nine treys. SLU’s 293 3-pointers this year are a SLU single-season record.
- Saint Louis leads the A-10 in FG% (.471), effective FG% (.559) and defensive rpg (27.8, 16th in NCAA).
- Gibson Jimerson leads the Billikens with 17.7 ppg, third in the A-10. He needs five more 3-pointers to break Erwin Claggett’s single-season record of 103 treys in 1994-95.
- Jimerson leads all active NCAA Division I players in career 3-pointers (school-record 411). On the NCAA’s all-time lists, Jimerson is 12th all-time in career minutes played, tied for 22nd in career 3-pointers made, and 139th in career points.
- Robbie Avila scores 17.3 ppg and leads all centers in Division I in assists (4.0) and 3s made per game (1.7).
- Isaiah Swope leads the Bills and is fourth in the A-10 with 4.4 assists per game. He also averages 16.3 ppg.
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The Billikens are back to being the only program in NCAA Division I with three players averaging 16.3 ppg or better.
- Head coach Josh Schertz is in his first season at SLU. His .775 winning percentage ranks No. 8 among active coaches across all three NCAA divisions.
ABOUT THE DUKES
- The Duquesne University Dukes (Pittsburgh, Pa.) enter the game 13-17 overall and 8-9 in A-10 play. They are currently tied for eighth in the league standings.
- The Dukes won the A-10 Championship last season as a No. 6 seed. Duquesne then knocked off No. 6-seed BYU in the opening round of last year’s NCAA Tournament for its first NCAA win since 1969.
- Tre Dinkins III leads the Dukes in scoring with 12.9 ppg, which includes a team-best 74 3-pointers. He ranks among the A-10 leaders in 3-point field-goal percentage (.394).
- Kareem Rozier leads the Dukes with 3.4 assists per game. His 3.26 assist-to-turnover ratio leads the A-10 and ranks eighth in the NCAA.
- Duquesne has the league’s fourth-rated defense, as it yields 66.7 ppg. The Dukes are third in the conference in turnovers forced per game (13.50) and are fifth in offensive rebounds per game (11.73).
- Head coach Dru Joyce III is in his first season as head coach. He was associate head coach under Keith Dambrot at Duquesne the last two seasons, and took over the reigns when Dambrot announced his retirement after last season.
SERIES HISTORY
- This is the 37th meeting all-time between the Billikens and Dukes. Duquesne holds a 19-17 lead in the series and have won two in a row.
- SLU’s last win in the series came on Feb. 18, 2023, at Chaifetz Arena.
