DURHAM, N.C. - Joanne P. McCallie’s Duke women’s basketball team ended last season shy of depth, ball-handling and perimeter shooting. A series of transfers and injuries left her with six ACC-quality players, enough to get Duke to the Sweet Sixteen, where they fell to former ACC rival Maryland.
Duke ended 23-11, the most losses since 1997 against a brutal schedule designed to be contested by a different team than actually showed up.
Fast-forward nine months and those concerns have been addressed by the nation’s top recruiting class, five-deep, all perimeter players.
Freshmen Haley Gorecki, Crystal Primm and Faith Suggs are all ranked in the middle of the top 100.