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Duke Women’s Basketball All-Decade Teams

by Sabreena Merchant on December 23, 2009

While we’ve been busy compiling our own All-Decade teams, the Duke Athletics department has unveiled its own set of All-Decade teams, starting with women’s basketball.
The Duke Women’s Basketball program had a decade to remember in the 2000s, winning five consecutive ACC championships from 2000-2004 and six ACC regular season titles, and advancing to three Final [...]

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Black, Waner Selected in WNBA Draft

by Sabreena Merchant on April 9, 2009

Photo Courtesy of the WNBA
It was a disappointing finish to the season for Duke, as the Blue Devils were upset in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, prematurely ending the careers of Chante Black, Abby Waner and Carrem Gay.
But Black took the next step in her basketball career as she was selected 10th overall [...]

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Ballin’ with Barack

by Meredith Shiner on April 27, 2008

While Johnny Dawkins was contemplating leaving Durham for greener pastures out west, former Blue Devil Alison Bales was on Presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s team in the “3-on-3 Challenge for Change” at Maple Crest Middle School in Kokomo, Ind. Bales, who plays for the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, teamed up Obama, who is hoping a win [...]

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