Duquesne Basketball Recruiting
Duquesne Offers Pair of High-School Star Teammates
Duquesne’s basketball staff has been hard at work all spring, recruiting next year’s team and beyond.
This week, Dru Joyce III’s staff decided to extend a pair of offers to some talented high-school basketball players.
First, the Dukes offered 6-foot-3 combo guard Toure Nour Gassim, a three-star prospect. He plays for The Principia School in St. Louis, Missouri and is a member of the class of 2027.
Then, the Dukes offered 2027 prospect Kingston Money. While this is Money’s first Division One offer, he has visited Xavier before. Money is a teammate of Gassim at The Principia School in St. Louis.
Duquesne has filled out this upcoming season’s roster with several highly-touted transfers with Division One experience, as well as some younger talent.
Most recently, the Dukes landed Serbian prospect Lazar Milosevic.
Milosevic is a 6-foot-9 guard/wing who last played for OKK Spars Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There, he played in 26 games, averaging just under 30 minutes per contest. Milosevic shot 40% from three-point range, making 49 three pointers on the season and averaging 12.1 points per game. He also averaged 4.6 rebounds per game for his team.
The Dukes have also announced several key returners in the past week or so, including Jake DiMichele, Jakub Necas, David Dixon, and Cam Crawford.
Last season, DiMichele battled injuries, only playing in seven games. However, in limited action, DiMichele showed an improved offensive game and took on a big role as a scorer. In that seven-game sophomore stint, he averaged 24.3 minutes per game, 10.9 points per game, and 1.6 assists per game. DiMichele shot 32% from three as a sophomore.
The 6-foot-4 McKees Rocks native earned playing time in 30 games as a freshman, averaging 6.4 points and 2.5 rebounds per game. He scored 8 points on 3-for-6 shooting in Duquesne’s First Round win in the NCAA Tournament over BYU.
Dixon, a 6-foot-9, 215-pound forward, spent his junior season coming off the bench for the Dukes for the most part. He appeared in 32 games, starting ten. Dixon played just 18.3 minutes per game for the Dukes but made a massive impact. He averaged 5.7 points and 5.1 rebounds per contest, setting a career-high in rebounds per game but taking a step back in the scoring department.
Crawford is a former Marshall standout who transferred to Duquesne ahead of last season. The 6-foot-5 wing averaged 8.6 points and 2.5 rebounds per game for the Dukes, shooting 43% from three-point range as a key shooter for Duquesne throughout year one of the Dru Joyce III era. Crawford started a career-high 22 games this past season, and made 44 of his 102 three-point tries.
Necas, a 6-foot-8 wing/forward, averaged 6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game for Dru Joyce III’s squad last season as a sophomore. A native of Blansko, Czech Republic, Necas shot 39% from the field and 25% from three-point range.
