The Duke women’s basketball team gets a chance at the sport’s ultimate upset in 2024-25.
The team announced on Wednesday that, as a part of the 2024 ACC/SEC Challenge, the Blue Devils will travel to South Carolina to play the Gamecocks in December.
Dawn Staley’s program won two of the last three national championships, including an undefeated 38-0 season last year. South Carolina also won a national championship in 2017 and reached the Final Four in 2023, the only year it didn’t cut down the nets recently.
The Gamecocks roster gets even scarier next season despite star senior Kamilla Cardoso headed to the WNBA. Each of the team’s five other players who averaged at least nine points will be back, and MiLaysia Fulwiley (the team’s second-leading scorer with 11.7 points per game) was a freshman last season.
Duke, for its own merit, had the best season during head coach Kara Lawson’s tenure last year. The Blue Devils upset Ohio State in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, reaching the Sweet 16 as a No. 7 seed behind one of the best defenses in the country.
SEC/ACC Challenge matchup is set! pic.twitter.com/I9ojQdEHSQ
— Duke Women’s Basketball (@DukeWBB) June 12, 2024
The game will be played on Thursday, December 5.