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By Em Adler | September 18, 2022Chelsea Gray became the first former Blue Devil—in men’s or women’s basketball—to win a Finals MVP award.
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By Jonathan Levitan | September 14, 2022The ACC announced its 2022-23 conference schedule Wednesday morning, including the matchups for the Blue Devils' upcoming season.
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By Em Adler | September 11, 2022The WNBA finals are set, and a former Blue Devil is on each team’s roster. The Blue Zone takes a look at how Chelsea Gray and other Duke alumni have fared across the W this year.
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2023 5-star guard Jadyn Donovan commits to Duke women's basketball
By Jonathan Levitan | August 22, 2022Just like that, head coach Kara Lawson and the Blue Devils have made another big-time recruiting move.
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Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball guard Emma Koabel
By Ana Young | August 10, 2022After an up-and-down 2021-22 season, Duke returns to the hardwood this year with a handful of fresh faces and true grit. In this series, the Blue Zone analyzes the new signees’ film for the 2022-23 season. Next up is Emma Koabel.
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Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball guard Ashlon Jackson
By Sasha Richie | August 4, 2022After an up-and-down 2021-22 season, Duke returns to the hardwood this year with a handful of fresh faces and true grit. In this series, the Blue Zone analyzes the new signees’ film for the 2022-23 season. We previously looked at Kennedy Brown and Taya Corosdale. Next up is Ashlon Jackson.
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Duke women's basketball head coach Kara Lawson to join U.S. women's national team as assistant coach
By Sasha Richie | July 29, 2022The U.S. women's national team is gaining a red, white and Blue Devil, with Duke head coach Kara Lawson slated to join the team as an assistant coach for the upcoming FIBA Women's World Cup in Sydney, Australia.
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Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball forward Taya Corosdale
By Rachael Kaplan | July 28, 2022After an up-and-down 2021-22 season, Duke returns to the hardwood this year with a handful of fresh faces and true grit. In this series, the Blue Zone analyzes the new signees’ film for the 2022-23 season. We previously looked at Kennedy Brown. Next up is Taya Corosdale.
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Film room: Analyzing Duke women's basketball forward Kennedy Brown
By Ana Young | July 18, 2022After an up-and-down 2021-22 season, Duke returns to the hardwood this year with a handful of fresh faces and true grit. In this series, the Blue Zone analyzes the new signees’ film for the 2022-23 season, starting with Kennedy Brown.
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Duke women's basketball announces 2022-23 nonconference schedule
By Jonathan Levitan | July 6, 2022Duke announced its nonconference schedule for the 2022-23 season via release Wednesday morning, detailing an 11-game gauntlet featuring matchups against Texas A&M, Northwestern, Florida Gulf Coast and Connecticut.
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Former 5-star recruit Taya Corosdale transfers to Duke women's basketball
By Em Adler | April 30, 2022Former Oregon State combo forward Taya Corosdale has committed to Duke, she announced Friday via Twitter.
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Former 5-star recruit Kennedy Brown transfers to Duke women's basketball
By Em Adler | April 24, 2022The last time that Duke had an all-conference big, she transferred to Connecticut. Six years later, the Blue Devils got to steal away a high-quality big for themselves.
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Former top-40 recruit Reigan Richardson transfers to Duke women’s basketball
By Em Adler | April 20, 2022Because adding just one former Bulldog wasn't enough.
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Recruiting roundup: Commits show out, transfer portal heats up for Duke women's basketball
By Em Adler | April 18, 2022The Blue Devils may have lost six players to graduation, but reinforcements are on their way. And recently, they’ve been showing their star potential.
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Former Tulane forward Mia Heide transfers to Duke women's basketball
By Jonathan Levitan | April 14, 2022Once again, head coach Kara Lawson and the Blue Devils have used the transfer portal to their advantage.
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Duke women’s basketball announces Karen Lange as assistant coach
By Em Adler | April 13, 2022Lange had spent the past seven years with Georgia as associate head coach to Joni Taylor, who was hired away last month by Texas A&M. But instead of following Taylor, Lange headed north to Durham.
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Duke women's basketball assistant coach Beth Cunningham hired as Missouri State head coach
By Jonathan Levitan | March 31, 2022A key member of the Blue Devils’ coaching staff is headed elsewhere.
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Duke women’s basketball ends season after missing NCAA tournament and rejecting NIT bid
By Em Adler | March 14, 2022Duke's culture is proudly player-led, so it's unsurprising that the decision to voluntarily end its season for the second-straight year would come from the players. Especially given the factors pervading the Blue Devils’ collapse over the past two months, it’s understandable that the team was not fully in lockstep.
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Duke women's basketball falls to Miami in ACC tournament, late Hurricane run likely ending season
By Em Adler | March 3, 2022The game was a cruel metaphor for how Duke’s season has gone: It came out firing against a quality opponent, playing in a way that belied the newness of the team; then, as the going got tougher, the chemistry slowly deteriorated, until the Blue Devils found their backs against the wall.
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Duke women’s basketball freshmen have a field day against Pittsburgh in ACC tournament
By Andrew Long | March 3, 2022Tied at 48 with just over two minutes to play, the contest was poised on a knife’s edge. Pittsburgh's shots were still falling fairly frequently and Duke couldn’t quite seize control of a game that since the halftime buzzer it had dominated.