The 2013 NCAA women's basketball tournament kicked off Monday night with the seeding selection show, and Duke women's basketball received a No. 2 seed in the Norfolk region. The Blue Devils will begin playing at Cameron Indoor Stadium and should they advance, they'll play in Norfolk with a potential regional final game against No. 1 seed Notre Dame, the No. 2 overall seed in the tournament.
The Chronicle has a comprehensive breakdown of Duke women's basketball in the NCAA tournament. Here are all the stories from the supplement that ran today, with the cover at the right:
- Alexis Jones has stepped up as Duke's leader since star point guard Chelsea Gray went down for the season with a knee injury. But Jones' story begins with her father, who was her coach until a 2007 car crash left him paralyzed from the neck down.
- Jones may grab the headlines, but stud sophomore Elizabeth Williams is the centerpiece of the Blue Devils.
- Like Gray this year, Richa Jackson missed last year's NCAA tournament, going down with an ACL tear. That's why the junior has been ready to step up in Gray's absence.
- Can the Blue Devils reach the Final Four? Women's basketball beat writer Nick Martin says they can do just that because of Jones and the rest of this talented squad.
- Beat writer Jay Sullivan takes the other side of the argument, arguing Gray's injury will be too much for Duke to overcome.
We also have breakdowns of all the No. 1 seeds in the tournament:
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