The Bills look to bust out of a five-way tie for third place (6-3) by beating up on Duquesne, one of the teams in said tie. The Dukes beat SLU handily in the first game of the conference season.

Joey Brackets has the A-10 as a three-bid league this year (Dayton, URI, VCU) so holding serve here is critical.

SLU fans may remember Frankie Hughes, who spent his freshman season at Mizzou before transferring to Duquesne. Hughes is described as Duquesne’s leading three-point shooter “by volume”, which is to say he shoots many and makes not so many. Alas, Frankie is out this season with a knee injury.

I spent fifteen minutes on the internet trying to figure out if Michael and Frankie are related. They do not appear to be, though I could not find anywhere that explicitly stated “no relation”. They love to say “no relation” wherever possible, so I thought. Frankie went to Mizzou for a season but is from Cleveland. Michael went to Akron for a season but is from Kansas City. He chose to follow the coach from Akron to Duquesne.