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As soon as the Dukes are knocked out of the NCAA match, head coach Keith Dambrot is looking it a profession.
Dambrot introduced on Monday, at some point after he formally led Duquesne to its first NCAA match look since 1977, that he plans to retire on the finish of the season. He’s spent the final seven seasons with Duquesne, and has now compiled his third 20-win season.
“I didn’t need to cheat [the job],” he stated Sunday after Duquesne beat VCU 57-51 within the Atlantic 10 match championship recreation. “And I simply felt like I may see myself shedding the sting in some unspecified time in the future. That’s why I stated, ‘I don’t need to finish like that.’ I’m not constructed that manner.”
Dambrot received his head teaching begin at Central Michigan in 1991. He spent two seasons there, however then jumped to the highschool degree and really coached Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James at St. Vincent-St. Mary Excessive Faculty in Akron, Ohio.
YESSIRRR!! Punch that 🎟️ to the Large Dance @DuqMBB!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!! Love you Coach Dambrot & @CoachDruJoyce 🤎🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
— LeBron James (@KingJames) March 17, 2024
Dambrot returned to school in 2004, and he spent the following 13 seasons at Akron. He compiled a 305-139 report and gained six common season MAC titles and made three NCAA match appearances with the Zips.
In complete, the 65-year-old holds a 440-268 report as a Division-I head coach.
“My character kind isn’t good to educate into the 70s,” Dambrot stated, through ESPN. “I am too concerned in it. I am nonetheless fearful about the place the blokes are on time for the bus, you realize? It is simply, it is exhausting to clarify, proper? Perhaps. Perhaps slightly neurotic.”
Dambrot and Duquesne went 24-11 this season and gained eight straight video games to shut out the yr. The Dukes earned a No. 11 seed within the NCAA match after their A-10 match title, and can tackle BYU of their first-round recreation on Thursday afternoon in Omaha. The winner will then tackle both Illinois or Morehead St. within the second spherical of the East area on Saturday.