Duquesne collapses in blowout loss

The Duquesne men’s team held a 30-29 lead Saturday with 3:44 left to play in the first half. Then Fordham’s Darius Quissenbery put his team ahead with two free throws and the Rams disappeared over the horizon for an 87-60 victory at Rose Hill Gym in New York.

Fordham stretched its advantage to 45-32 at halftime and led by as many as 29 in the second half.

The Dukes finished their Atlantic 10 Conference regularseason with a 10-8 record and will seeded sixth for the league postseason tournament. Duquesne still has a firstround bye and will open its tournament Wednesday night in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Khalid Moore led the way for the Rams with 24 points, 9 rebounds and 6 assists. Quissenberry finished with 21 points.

Joe Reece with 16 points and David Dixon with 11 were Duquesne’s only double-digit scorers. For Reece, it was his 11th double-digit scoring game and his third in the past five games. Leading scorer Dae Dae Grant was held to five.

The Dukes made a seasonlow three 3-point attempts in the game.

Other men’s game

West Virginia 89, Kansas State 81: Eric Stevenson scored 27 points, Kedrian Johnson added 23 and the Mountaineers (18-13, 7-11 Big 12) gave their NCAA tournament hopes a boost in front of a sell-out home crowd with a win against the No. 11-ranked Wildcats.

WVU rallied from a 10-point deficit to take 39-37 halftime lead and never trailed after that. Kansas State was within 61-57 when Johnson blocked Markquis Nowell’s layup attempt and Stevenson hit a 3 -pointer at the other end of the court.’

Stevenson hit another 3 less than two minutes later for a 69-59 lead with 8:49 left.

The Wildcats then went scoreless for nearly three minutes and the Mountaineers padded their lead at the free throw line.

Stevenson, Johnson, Emmitt Matthews and Tre Mitchell joined fellow seniors after to the game to sing “Country Roads” before joining the celebration in the students’ section.

District women’s game West Virginia 63, Baylor 52: Madisen Smith scores 30 points with 8 rebounds and 7 assist to lead the Mountaineers (19-10) in a Big 12 quarterfinal at Waco, Texas.

WVU pulled away from a 4646 ties with 1:30 left in the third quarter and ourtscored Baylor (19-11), 17-6 the rest of the way.