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2025-06 Duke

Shocking loss by Duke! Played poorly, give a ton of credit to the five WV players who were available in the 2nd half after six players were ejected at the end of the first half shoving incident. Duke probably drops out of the top 25 as a result.
 
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TheFarmFan said:
I wouldn't blame @triaddukefan if he needs to take a week off from basketball. I hear darts is fun.
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Darts is fun! I would rather play darts than watch Duke stink up the place. Really Kara?? With all that talent and this is what you do against five players? SMDH and I don’t like anything about Duke sports.
 
Wow! Duke players and Coach Lawson should be embarrassed by this loss to West Virginia. I can only imagine how practice and meetings will go from here on out.
 
GamecockFam said:
If my memory is correct, Duke tends to have slow starts. Hopefully this is just one of those seasons...
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So true. This loss has to spark them, hopefully. Coach Lawson is too good of a coach, teacher, motivational speaker, and competitor to let this slide. I am sure this will light a fire out of the players and coaching staff. To get out played by five players. This has to spark the Duke WBB program the rest of the season. I wish that I was a fly on the wall at the next practice and meeting.
 
Duke looked pretty bad for the entire game. The offensive problems are real. It almost looks like they have no coherent halfcourt offense. And if they can’t get an easy bucket off their press, they don’t know what to do. In this game, they ran up against another pressing team, perhaps even more aggressively so than they are, and it exacerbated their offensive woes.

If it were me — don’t worry it isn’t — I’d keep Jordan Wood on the bench for a big chunk of the season. I mean, taunting someone at mid-court. Seriously? I suspect there was a lot of extra stuff leading up to that moment. But still… And what is going on with their ability to make layups, or even midrange jumpers? Even Fournier, whose entire reason for making a top-25 team in the first place is her post play, seemed flummoxed when she had the ball. This was a far cry from the dominant player I remember coming out of high school.

And kudos to Mark Kellog for creating a competitive team out of spare parts. I mean, other than failing to teach them the importance of bench discipline. But despite that obvious lapse, which cost him most of his starters for the second half, they still outscored Duke. And what a happy surprise Celia Rivière turns out to be. A big, slow-footed kid from France outplayed all of Duke’s bigs for an entire half. I have to guess that she’ll get a lot more minutes going forward.

The only bright spot I can see for Duke is the return of Arianna Roberson. She looked composed and under control throughout. If her knee is up to it, I suspect Fournier will be coming off the bench for awhile.
 
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Bone Dog said:
Duke looked pretty bad for the entire game. The offensive problems are real. It almost looks like they have no coherent halfcourt offense. And if they can’t get an easy bucket off their press, they don’t know what to do. In this game, they ran up against another pressing team, perhaps even more aggressively so than they are, and it exacerbated their offensive woes.

If it were me — don’t worry it isn’t — I’d keep Jordan Wood on the bench for a big chunk of the season. I mean, taunting someone at mid-court. Seriously? I suspect there was a lot of extra stuff leading up to that moment. But still… And what is going on with their ability to make layups, or even midrange jumpers? Even Fournier, whose entire reason for making a top-25 team in the first place is her post play, seemed flummoxed when she had the ball. This was a far cry from the dominant player I remember coming out of high school.

And kudos to Mark Kellog for creating a competitive team out of spare parts. I mean, other than failing to teach them the importance of bench discipline. But despite that obvious lapse, which cost him most of his starters for the second half, they still outscored Duke. And what a happy surprise Celia Rivière turns out to be. A big, slow-footed kid from France outplayed all of Duke’s bigs for an entire half. I have to guess that she’ll get a lot more minutes going forward.

The only bright spot I can see for Duke is the return of Arianna Roberson. She looked composed and under control throughout. If her knee is up to it, I suspect Fournier will be coming off the bench for awhile.
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Fournier must have missed 10 layups in a 40 second span at the end of the game
 
JellyBean said:
So true. This loss has to spark them, hopefully. Coach Lawson is too good of a coach, teacher, motivational speaker, and competitor to let this slide. I am sure this will light a fire out of the players and coaching staff. To get out played by five players. This has to spark the Duke WBB program the rest of the season. I wish that I was a fly on the wall at the next practice and meeting.
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Maybe. But this was not a loss due to lethargy. Duke was just bad. Bad execution, bad decisions, bad shots. That’s a lot to fix. Especially for some of the intellectually smartest players in D1.
 
Vowelguy said:
Maybe. But this was not a loss due to lethargy. Duke was just bad. Bad execution, bad decisions, bad shots. That’s a lot to fix. Especially for some of the intellectually smartest players in D1.
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I'd add lack of composure as well. They let the crowd and the environment get to them, further exacerbating their execution and decision making issues.
 
Geew1992 said:
That’s it??? They clearly missed a few
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She hadn't taken a lot of shots until late in the game. I had the boxscore up and she had taken only 4 shot attempts by the end of the third. Considering the situation, I'm surprised that Duke didn't try to force the ball inside more when WV was left with 5 players.
 
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I think Duke will be fine and Lawson is doing well but I can't say there seems to be an obvious reason why they should be struggling so much early this year.
 
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Still love Duke’s non-conference schedule this year. Wish more teams scheduled challenging early season games.
 
Gamecockfan77 said:
I think Dulje will be fine and Lawson is doing well but I can't say there seems to be an obvious reason why they should be struggling so much early this year.
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Their offense is a struggle. I don’t think kara has ever had a good offensive team.
 
WV could not make anything down the stretch. If Fournier hit just one of those layups that could've flipped it.
 
TheFarmFan said:
I wouldn't blame @triaddukefan if he needs to take a week off from basketball. I hear darts is fun.
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A week? For a moment I was already out on this season and focused on 2026-27. 😣😟🙁

I actually didn't see the game, and that was probably for the best. I was following gamecast on my phone while driving 75 mph on Interstate 85. Not the smartest thing, but I never claimed to be smart 😒

TheGOAT23 said:
Darts is fun! I would rather play darts than watch Duke stink up the place. Really Kara?? With all that talent and this is what you do against five players? SMDH and I don’t like anything about Duke sports.
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I thought me and you wuz better than this
 
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maple said:
Should have never taunted WVU on that block at the half …
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Actually its probably my fault for the Fan Karma. I was in WV a few months ago, and was at the New River Gorge Bridge. While walking back up the stairs, I passed some Mountaineer fans with their WV gear on. I was giving them the eye and taunting them (in my head) about the arse whipping that was coming to them in November. 😞😖 Little did I know... 😩
 
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