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Duke received some good news nearly two months before its season opener in a decision that will affect the long-term future of the program.
Thought to be returning its entire starting lineup after bowing out in the first round of the NCAA team championships last spring, the Blue Devils found out this week they'll enter 2018 without a key contributor.
2017 season: 4-8, 2-6 in the ACC (7th in the Atlantic Division)
Last Wednesday night, the basketball world learned of the passing of Anne Donovan, an Olympic and Hall of Fame coach for USA Basketball. Standing at 6-foot-8, the Old Dominion graduate greatly impacted the women’s basketball community, including many former Blue Devils who have come to know Donovan over the years. She led the Connecticut Sun in her last head coaching stint in the WNBA.
With the 2018 WNBA season in full swing, the Blue Zone takes a look at the eight former Blue Devils currently playing across five WNBA teams in the league's fourth week of games for the year.
With the 2018 WNBA season in full swing, the Blue Zone takes a look at the eight former Blue Devils currently playing across five WNBA teams in the league's third week of games for the year.
With the 2018 WNBA season in full swing, the Blue Zone takes a look at the eight former Blue Devils currently playing across five WNBA teams in the league's second week of games for the year.
For only the fourth time in program history and first since 2014, the Blue Devils sent a doubles duo to the NCAA semifinals.
The Blue Devils may have fallen in the semifinals of the team event last Monday, but their season did not end there. In its final two events of the season, Duke did not disappoint.
With the 2018 WNBA season in full swing, the Blue Zone takes a look at the eight former Blue Devils currently playing across five WNBA teams in the league's first week of games for the year.
For the second match in a row, Duke was forced to play indoors due to rain. But the Blue Devils did not let that change of scenery affect their play with a trip to the NCAA semifinals on the line Saturday morning.
On a day filled with upsets including a loss by its in-state rival No. 2 North Carolina, Duke did what two other top-ranked teams on its side of the bracket could not.
The Blue Devils and the Tar Heels had already met twice this season, but their most important matchup came Sunday with a chance to hoist the ACC championship trophy on the line.
Last weekend, the Blue Devils clinched the ACC regular-season title with dominant performances against North Carolina and Virginia Tech. Now, Duke is three wins away from hoisting the postseason championship trophy and likely one of the top three seeds come NCAA tournament play next month.
Four months ago, freshman Hannah Zhao was still in high school. Friday night, she earned one of the biggest wins of her career to clinch the match against the top team in the nation and the Blue Devils’ biggest rivals.
In the middle of April, the women’s basketball season is over. The Splash Sisters—Lexie Brown and Rebecca Greenwell—were both drafted less than a week ago into the WNBA. But for the Blue Devils, it is never too early to find players who could become the next in line in the WNBA pipeline.
Perseverance in the face of adversity can define a team. The Blue Devils were three second sets away from a second road loss in a row Friday, but Duke then showed why it remains atop the ACC entering the final weekend of the regular season.
In the final month of the regular season, the Blue Devils faced one of their toughest opponents all season in hostile territory before returning home, and the result was one that had not occurred in almost two months.
ALBANY, N.Y.—The Blue Devils closed the books on their 2017-18 season in a 13-point loss to top-seeded Connecticut Saturday afternoon. Although the Huskies fairly successfully limited the production from the “Splash Sisters,” they could not limit Duke sophomore Leaonna Odom.
ALBANY, N.Y.—Connecticut may have been known for its offense in the first two games of the NCAA tournament. But it was the Huskies' defense that pushed them past the Blue Devils into the Elite Eight and has made them the prohibitive national title favorites.
