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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Careful what you wish for
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette columnist Bob Smizik says Duquesne's hoops program needs more than a new coach. It needs a new conference he argues in a column today. Smizik thinks the Dukes would be better off in the MAAC or the Patriot League.

Maybe he should look closer. Although the Patriot League was 2-4 against the A-10, the four losses were by Army (vs. Temple in the preseason NIT), an early season loss by a very young American team to A-10 power George Washington and two losses by non-scholarship Lafayette to two of the A-10's better teams, Fordham and Saint Joe's. Those two A-10 teams also account for the two losses to Patriot League teams, with Saint Joe's losing to Bucknell and Fordham to Holy Cross.

If he thinks life would be so much easier in the Patriot League, he might look at the experience of the last team to leave a higher conference to join the Patriot League. American fled the Colonial Athletic Conference five seasons ago and it has not gotten the Eagles to the dance.
Published at 7:14 AM by Hoop Time.
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