The Duke women’s basketball team, now riding a six-game win streak after defeating the Kansas State Wildcats and Oklahoma Sooners to take the Ball Dawgs Classic, became a top-10 team in the updated AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll.
The Blue Devils rose five spots to No. 8 in Monday’s rankings, setting up a top-10 showdown with No. 3 South Carolina in Columbia this Thursday. With the Notre Dame Fighting Irish tumbling down to No. 10 with a pair of losses, head coach Kara Lawson and her team can now call themselves the highest-ranked ACC program.
Duke has benefitted from some monster games during its recent winning streak, including a 30-point performance from Ashlon Jackson against Kansas State and a 35-point day from Reigan Richardson against Oklahoma.
Five-star freshman forward Toby Fournier is also averaging 11.9 points per game after her 25-point game against Belmont, and the 6-foot-2 debutant has notched at least 10 points in six of her nine games.
The North Carolina Tar Heels, also 7-1 for the season, remained in place at No. 16.