Men's Basketball | November 19, 2023

PHILADELPHIA - The La Salle men's basketball team will face its first road test of the season on Tuesday evening, when it travels to No. 9 Duke for the final game of the Blue Devil Classic. The game is set to air live on ACC Network beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Kale Beers and Rich Prendergast will deliver an online radio broadcast of the game on goexplorers.com. In addition, Explorers fans can follow the team on X @LaSalle_MBB and Instagram @lasallembb.

NEWS & NOTES

• The Explorers improved to 4-0 for the first time since the 2014-15 season with a 79-78 victory over Southern Indiana on Saturday.
• Junior Khalil Brantley was the focal point of the offense, scoring a career-high 30 points on 10-of-16 shooting.
• Brantley scored 22 of his 30 after halftime, and added five rebounds to help La Salle overcome a five-point deficit at intermission.
• The victory also puts head coach Fran Dunphy on the verge of a career milestone, as he enters Tuesday's game with 599 career wins in his 32nd season as a head coach.
• Dunphy amassed 310 victories as head coach at Penn from 1989-2006, and 270 more while at the helm of Temple from 2006-19.
• Now in his second season as head coach at his alma mater La Salle (1970 graduate), Dunphy earned Philadelphia Big 5 Coach of the Year accolades after leading the Explorers to 15 wins last season.
• In addition to Brantley's big afternoon against Southern Indiana, junior Daeshon Shepherd also had a standout performance, scoring 18 points and grabbing a team-high eight rebounds.
• Shepherd knocked down a career-high three three-point field goals and has averaged 20.0 points per game over his last two outings, shooting 65.2 percent from the floor.

SCOUTING NO. 9 DUKE

• Duke enters Tuesday's tilt with a 3-1 record, having defeated Bucknell, 90-60, on Friday.
• Mark Mitchell had a team-high 20 points as the Blue Devils connected on 13 three-pointers and outrebounded the Bison, 46-27.
• Duke also did a masterful job of sharing the basketball, registering 23 assists against just seven turnovers.
• Kyle Filipowski is the team's top performer through four games, averaging 18.8 points and 7.3 rebounds while shooting 57.1 percent from the field.
• Duke is coached by Jon Scheyer, who is in his second season after taking over for the legendary Mike Krzyzewski.
• Scheyer played for the Blue Devils from 2006-10, averaging 18.2 points per game as a senior in leading Duke to the 2010 NCAA national championship.

SERIES HISTORY

• Duke has won each of the four games contested between the two schools, with the last of those contests coming during the 1982-83 season - nearly 40 years ago.
• In that last game on January 8, 1983, the Explorers dropped a narrow 61-60 decision in a game played at The Palestra.
• La Salle's last game at Cameron Indoor came in the season opener of the 1981-82 season, a 61-55 loss.