By Jim Sumner, GoDuke the Magazine
“This is unprecedented for any women’s basketball team to have three graduate students playing as much as they will. We’re excited, we’re proud of them and we’ll work it out any way we need to.”
That’s Joanne P. McCallie talking about her 2017-18 Duke women’s basketball team. Duke has three key players enrolled in the Fuqua School of Business Master of Management Studies (MMS) program, an intensive 10-month course of study designed for recent graduates.
How did the fortunes of McCallie’s 11th Duke team become so tied to grad school?