The ACC released its preseason women’s basketball voting results on Tuesday, and Duke freshman Toby Fournier finished atop the Newcomer Watch List.
Fournier, a five-star talent from the Class of 2024, finished 10th on the 2024 HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings from espnW. A 6-foot-2 forward from Canada, the Blue Devils already posted a video of her dunking in practice ahead of her debut season.
Duke head coach [autotag]Kara Lawson[/autotag] brought back her four leading scorers from the 2023-24 season, but all of them play in the backcourt. Senior center Kennedy Brown, who averaged 8.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, won’t be back, so there’s a clear role for Fournier to fill on the court.
Lawson brought her and fellow five-star forward Arianna Roberson to add an interior presence to her roster, but Roberson will miss her entire freshman season with a knee injury. It’s easy to picture a world in which Fournier leads the team in rebounds this season, and on a team picked to finish third in the conference, that could be enough for some hardware.
Fournier finished with 222 points in the newcomer voting, 42 more than any other freshman (Louisville’s Imari Berry got 180 points).