PITTSBURGH
One year after five players were shot in the worst act of random violence to strike a major college sports program, Duquesne University’s basketball team is in a healing mode.
Three of the five shooting victims are playing, and a fourth should return next year. The Dukes are coming off a 4-0 exhibition tour in Canada over the Labor Day weekend. And there’s more optimism than there’s been in years surrounding a program that hasn’t been to the NCAA tournament since 1977.
Before attending a chapel service held Monday on the one-year anniversary of the shootings, coach Ron Everhart found himself reflecting about the damage done but also about the unexpected positives that have followed.
