Duquesne Dukes

The Dukes won 12 of their 18 home games in 2025-26 and covered only five of 16 home spreads, a rate just 37 Division I teams fell below. On the road the same team covered 7 of 12.

Winning at home, losing to the number

Duquesne’s home floor produced wins and very few covers. Duquesne won its first five home games, and of the four with a line only the 83-63 opener against Niagara covered. Six home wins in all missed the spread, three of them as double-digit November favorites, among them 92-80 over Sacred Heart laying 12.5 and 92-78 over Loyola Maryland laying 14.5. The home cover rate finished at 31.2%. Away it was 58.3%, seven covers in 12.

One unit on the Dukes in every priced home game lost 3.2 units; on the road the same bet came within 0.13 units of even.

The full season against the line

Duquesne covered 14 of 31 lined games, 45.2%. Favored 17 times, they went 12-5 straight up but covered only six. Getting points they covered 8 of 14.

February was the month

The Dukes went 5-3 in February and returned 3.16 units, their only profitable month. The run inside it was five straight wins, opened by a 76-61 home win over Rhode Island and including a 71-65 win at George Mason as +330 underdogs, the longest price they cashed all season. January had cost 3.67 units at 2-5.

The conference opponents

Rhode Island was met three times, the last in the conference tournament: two Duquesne wins, two covers. Dayton won both meetings and Duquesne covered neither. VCU also won both, but the Dukes covered the second, a 71-66 conference tournament loss as 6.5-point underdogs.

The total

Sixteen overs and 15 unders, one game from an even split, so there is no lean to carry into a Duquesne total from last season.

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