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There are colossal shoes to fill this coming season. But if there’s anyone who can do it, it’s Mikayla Boykin.
Goodchild's defense and 3-point shooting can make or break this year's squad.
As Duke welcomes Kara Lawson as its next women’s basketball head coach, it also welcomes an entirely new assistant coaching staff: three individuals with a myriad of experiences and over four decades of college coaching experience.
With so much uncertainty around who’s suiting up in blue and white this season, let the Blue Zone be your player guide.
The Blue Devils are coming off of a sensational 2019-20 campaign in which they finished third in the conference.
With the loss of Haley Gorecki and Leaonna Odom, the Blue Devils will look for Williams to pick up some of the offensive slack.
Duke now has its first official schedule of the Kara Lawson era.
Despite being hampered by injuries up to this point, Boykin will be one of the most valuable players on the roster this season.
As long as Goodchild keeps it up with her stellar shooting from beyond the arc, and improves on her shooting from other points on the court, she can be a dangerous shooter for Duke.
Ezeh has a clear understanding of spacing and rolling, and displays very thoughtful team play in the paint.
Akinbode-James' defense and offensive rebounding make her an intriguing player to watch heading into this season.
Patrick is a defense-first wing with clear talent, and despite her exposure to collegiate basketball being a bit abridged, she showed a lot of reasons to be optimistic about her ability to contribute.
Claude is a dominant rebounder and a defensive specialist who is classified as one of the hardest workers on the team.
The grad transfer from California-Berkeley started 25 games for the Golden Bears last year, after missing the 2018-19 season with a back injury, and was a decent player all over the court.
It’s hard to say anything about Havas’s game with much confidence, as the walk-on from Lafayette College has had a career average of only 14 minutes per game, in a conference not exactly known for television exposure.
It’s still unclear how Lawson is expected to use the talent on her team, but Nwoke is the perfect candidate if Lawson wants to roll out a lineup with a traditional center and play old school basketball.
De Jesus was a Max Preps All-American and finalist for California Gatorade Player of the Year during her senior year of high school.
Bollin is Duke's highest-ranked recruit since 2017.
In her first season as a collegiate head coach, Kara Lawson is still in the midst of figuring out how her team will play.
Just days after nabbing the first commitment of the Kara Lawson era, the Blue Devils received the commitment of what could be one of the first Lawson recruits to take the court.
