media MEDIA 209 Media Services and Policies 210 Dukes on the Radio 211 Directions to Home Sites 212 209 2019-20 Duquesne Basketball Media Supplement Media Information MEDIA SERVICES AND POLICIES We hope the 2019-20 Duquesne University men’s basketball me- POST-GAME Both head coaches, only if requested by multiple media members, and se- dia supplement helps you in your coverage of Dukes basketball. lected players will be brought to the media room following the NCAA-man- Below is an outline of some of the services the media relations dated 10-minute “cooling off” period at DU home games. THE DUQUESNE office provides. Please feel free to contact the DU media relations LOCKER ROOM IS CLOSED TO MEDIA. On the road, if an interview area is not provided, Duquesne players and coaches will be available outside the office for assistance. locker room. After each game, the Duquesne head coach will meet with the team, then do a brief radio show at courtside, before meeting with the media. CREDENTIALS Credentials are issued to members of the working media only. Work space VISTING RADIO is limited. Children and other non-workers are not permitted on press row. A hard-wired Ethernet will be provided to visiting radio for home games. An Credential requests should be made via e-mail or text message to Dave Saba iPad that updates in-game statistics will also be available. You will need to at least 36 hours prior to game time. Passes will be left at the table inside the provide Dave Saba with a MAC address for your broadcast equipment no doors of the designated media entrance. Credentials will be available at the later than one working day prior to the game to ensure proper Ethernet media entrance 90 minutes prior to tip-off. access. Visiting radio stations serving as the official carrier of Atlantic 10 Con- ference school broadcasts have first right to the Ethernet port. PARKING Media parking for games at PPG Paints Arena is located in the Surface Lot INTERVIEW POLICY located a half-block before the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse on the left side of Student-athlete interviews are arranged through the media relations office. We Forbes Avenue. Those who request credentials will be placed on the gate list. will do our best to coordinate an interview time that is convenient for both the Physical parking passes are not distributed. Your name will be checked off student-athlete and media member. (We ask that you keep in mind between either at entry or when you leave depending on the time of the game. class, practice and study hall, an athlete’s schedule can be pretty full.) MEDIA ENTRANCE WWW.GODUQUESNE.COM / @DUQMBB Entrance for games at PPG Paints Arena will be through the Administrative Members of the media are encouraged to keep up with the latest in Duquesne Office entrance on the corner of Washington Place and Fifth Avenue. athletics at www.GoDuquesne.com. Stats, results and game notes are updated daily in an effort to provide the latest happenings on the Bluff. An electonic PRESS ROW media supplement/record book will be available online prior to the season. Media seating areas will vary based on site. SEATING IS FOR MEMBERS In addition, game notes and updated stats for every game are uploaded in a OF THE WORKING MEDIA ONLY. Duquesne University and the United timely manner. States Basketball Writers Association remind each member of the media that press row is a working area. Cheering for either team will not be tolerated. ADDITIONAL MEDIA CONTENT Highlights and video of Duquesne’s post-game press conference are posted at WIRELESS www.GoDuquesne.com following each home game. Wireless internet service is open at PPG Paints Arena. Connection information for games at La Roche and Robert Morris will be provided to media on site. DUQUESNE MEDIA RELATIONS STAFF IN-GAME MEDIA Dave Saba (MBB Contact) • Associate AD/Media Relations Live statistics as well as streaming video of non-televised Duquesne home Office 412-396-5861 games is available at GoDuquesne.com. There is a subscription fee to view the Cell 412-225-5317 stream. Subscribe through ESPN+. e-mail [email protected] PRESS ROW SERVICE Liam Halferty • Asst. Director of Media Relations • (Secondary MBB Contact) Box scores and play-by-play summarires will be distributed to the media at Office 412-396-5376 halftime. Final box scores and full statistical booklets will be available in the Cell 412-508-1692 media room following the game. In addition, both print and electronic media e-mail [email protected] will have access to in-game statistics via electronic devices (a limited number Ryan Long • Asst. Director of Media Relations • (WBB Contact) of iPads will be provided to working media). Office 412-396-6560 Cell 570-332-3078 MEDIA ROOM e-mail [email protected] There will be a designated media room for games at PPG Paints Arena, Robert Morris and La Roche. Game rosters and game notes are available 90 minutes Athletics Website www.GoDuquesne.com prior to game time. A pre-game meal will also be served 60 minutes prior to University Website www.duq.edu tip-off. Mail/Overnight Address Duquesne University - Athletics Media Relations Tobin Building, Room 206 600 Forbes Avenue • Pittsburgh, Pa. 15282 PHOTOGRAPHERS The NCAA has established a policy to control congestion in the photo areas during basketball games. ONLY PHOTOGRAPHERS ON ASSIGNMENT AND/OR WORKING TELEVISION MEDIA WILL BE GRANTED CRE- DENTIALS. Camera persons may work along the baseline ONLY - on either end of the court, but not exactly under the basket support. Photographers must be seated beyond the dashed line on the baseline at all times. ESPN+ All non-televised Duquesne home games and non-televised Atlantic 10 road games are streamed live in HD on the ESPN+ platform. A subscription is required for viewing. To subscribe, go to: https://watch.espnplus.com/sports/?DB_OEM_ID=31600. 210 2019-20 Duquesne Basketball Media Supplement Media Information DUKES ON THE RADIO Ray Goss completed his 50th season as radio “Voice of the Dukes” in 2017-18. Duquesne University men’s basketball will air live on 1320 WJAS AM once again in 2019-20. 51-YEAR LETTERMAN Dukes’ broadcasts will also be available on electronic devices through iHeart- Duquesne has played over 2,500 games in its Radio, the industry-leading free digital radio service. 103-year basketball history. Ray Goss, the radio Ray Goss, who broadcast his first Duquesne basketball games as a student “Voice of the Dukes” has been behind the mic sports director at DU in 1957, is beginning his 52nd season as the play-by-play for over half of them. Now beginning his 52nd “Voice of the Dukes.” Goss, a 1994 inductee to the Duquesne University Sports season, Goss, 82 (birthday Jan. 6), is the longest Hall of Fame, has called the action for over half of all DU games ever contested. active radio play-by-play man in NCAA Divi- He has described games for two sion I basketball. Goss, who graduated from NCAA Tournament teams and Duquesne with a B.A. in Radio/TV Journalism eight Dukes National Invitation in 1958, called his first game on March 17, Tournament squads. 1968 when Duquesne faced Fordham in the Goss is joined by tenth-year first round of the National Invitation Tourna- color man Jarrett Durham. Dur- ment at Madison Square Garden. He began on a full-time basis at the start of the 1968-69 ham, a member of the Duquesne season. Goss has missed just two games in his Sports Hall of Fame & All-Centu- broadcasting career - one on Jan. 7, 1978 at ry Team, helped Duquesne to a 59-16 record and three consecutive post-season Penn State when he auditioned for a regional appearances as a player from 1969-71. The Aliquippa, Pa. native was also a play-by-play position with the NBA, and the other on Mar. 21, successful head coach, leading Robert Morris to three NCAA tournament appear- 2011 at Oregon while mourning his wife, Dee, who passed away ances in 12 seasons from 1984-85 through 1995-96. Durham, who was inducted the evening of DU’s CBI win at Montana five days earlier. Ray’s to the Robert Morris Athletic Hall of Fame in the fall of 2010 as the school’s two longest consecutive games streaks spanned 237 games (Jan. 7, all-time winningest men’s basketball coach, has the distinction of having been 1978 miss) then 977 more prior to the last game of 2011. part of the NCAA tournament in four decades: as a player at Duquesne in 1969 & 1971, as an assistant coach at Robert Morris in 1982 & 1983 and as a head coach at LONGEST ACTIVE RMU in 1989, 1990 & 1992. NCAA DIVISION I RADIO BROADCASTERS years worked entering 2019-20 The 2019-20 season marks Duquesne’s 74th on the airwaves. On Jan. 2, 1947, Joe Tucker, the longtime play-by-play voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers, teamed 51 RAY GOSS DUQUESNE with Rege Cordic to describe a 55-45 Dukes win over Holy Cross live from 50 Bill Hillgrove Pittsburgh Duquesne Gardens in DU’s first radio broadcast. 45 Art Challis Southern Utah 45 Rich Chvotkin Georgetown 45 Dave Nitz Louisiana Tech 41 John Cox Southern Miss 40 Mike Reis Southern Illinois 40 Dave Snell Bradley 211 2019-20 Duquesne Basketball Media Supplement Media Information MEDIA SERVICES AND POLICIES DIRECTIONS TO 2019-20 HOME SITES To PPG Paints Arena: https://bit.ly/2Mu74TI To Robert Morris University UPMC Events Center: https://bit.ly/2VnvulU To La Roche University Kerr Fitness Center: https://bit.ly/2p8Xpdd Walking Path to Baierl Athletic Complex STUDENT RECREATION 14 & FITNESS CENTER 12 ROBERT MORRIS NORTH ATHLETIC COMPLEX 13 UNIVERSITY LOT 16 11 To Athletic Complex Athletic To 6001 UNIVERSITY BLVD.