The Duke women’s basketball team enters the 2024-25 season with some of the most impressive victories of the [autotag]Kara Lawson[/autotag] era fresh on the mind, and now, the Blue Devils add one of the best freshmen in the country to that mix.
On Friday, the Blue Devils posted a social media clip of senior guard Vanessa de Jesus lofting an alley-oop off the backboard before freshman Toby Fournier grabbed the rebound and dunked.
Fourner, a 6-foot-2 Canadian, was the 10th-ranked player in the Class of 2024 on espnW’s HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings. She was one of two five-star commitments in the cycle, although fellow 6-foot forward Arianna Roberson will miss her freshman season with a knee injury.
Lawson also landed Maryland’s Riley Nelson, a former five-star prospect from the Class of 2023, out of the transfer portal while retaining six of the team’s seven leading scorers from last season.
After Duke defeated a top-10 NC State team at home late last season before beating the 2-seed Ohio State Buckeyes in the NCAA Tournament to advance to the Sweet 16, expectations seem to keep climbing in Durham.
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