[autotag]Cooper Flagg[/autotag] isn’t the only Duke basketball freshman turning heads in Durham this season.
[autotag]Toby Fournier[/autotag], a 6-foot-2 forward from Canada, scored 15 points in just 19 minutes off the bench in an 84-49 victory over Dayton on Thursday. The performance marked her fourth consecutive game with at least 10 points to open the season, making her the first Blue Devil to accomplish that feat since Becca Greenwell in 2014-15.
Fournier, the No. 10 overall recruit in the 2024 HoopGurlz Recruiting Rankings from espnW, notched 10 points in her debut against Radford. She followed that up with 13 points against Liberty and 15 points against Maryland to raise her scoring average to 13.3 points to start the year, the highest on the team.
She’s also averaging 5.3 rebounds, 1.5 steals, and 1.0 blocks, and she’s attempted 20 free throws over the last three games despite never playing more than 24 minutes.
“You can see she’s going to be really efficient,” head coach Kara Lawson said after last week’s win over Liberty.
Lawson already brought back her four leading scorers from last year’s team, and the Blue Devils reached the Sweet 16 in that run. With another year of experience and the addition of Fournier, something could be brewing in Durham.