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Patrick and de Jesus lead Duke women's basketball to first win of Kara Lawson era
By Spencer Levy | November 25, 2020It didn't take long for Duke to get off to a strong start.
It didn't take long for Duke to get off to a strong start.
Duke notching a win against Charlotte was not unusual, but almost every part of the win was.
Anchored by two 60-plus yard runs from its two running backs, Duke leads Charlotte 24-7 as the teams head into the locker room.
Bollin is Duke's highest-ranked recruit since 2017.
Over the course of the three months since Lawson was named as the head coach, she has shared some of her core tenets of how she will run the Duke women’s basketball program. Built upon her multitude of different experiences, the newly minted coach will implement these ideologies throughout the team.
In her first season as a collegiate head coach, Kara Lawson is still in the midst of figuring out how her team will play.
The new era of Duke women’s basketball will officially tip off on the hardwood in two months, but the coaching staff’s effort on the recruiting side has been in the works since earlier this summer.
In the six weeks since Kara Lawson was named head coach of the Duke women’s basketball program, she has put into place a few different critical mechanisms to achieve a relationship-based culture off the court.
Three former Blue Devils currently in the NFL checked in with head coach David Cutcliffe to discuss their days donning the blue and white, how Cutcliffe's teachings help them as professional athletes and more.
On the date of what would have been this year's national championship game, five former Blue Devils sit down and discuss their own title seasons.
Freshman Kelly Chen was the fourth-ranked recruit in the Class of 2017 and has experience playing at the highest level from this summer's U.S. open qualifiers.