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Blue Devils Gear Up For Road Tilt at Richmond
12/3/2022 8:12:00 PM | Women's Basketball
THE OPENING TIP
SCOUTING THE SPIDERS
SHARING THE WEALTH
DISRUPTING THE PEACE
TAYLOR HAS HER EYES ON THE (GRAND) PRIZE
UP NEXT
Duke gears up for its final home game of the non-conference slate, welcoming Austin Peay to Cameron on Thursday, Dec. 8. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m., on ACCNX
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWBB."
#GoDuke
- The Blue Devils are back on the road this weekend as they make the three-hour journey up to the Old Dominion State to take on Richmond on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 2 p.m. ET.
- Craig Kocher and Robert Fish will call the action on ESPN+ while Chris Edwards calls the game on the radio on the Blue Devil Sports Network from Learfield.
- Defense has been the calling card for the Blue Devils early in the season as the team has held its opponents to a 31.6 percent clip from the field and 50.8 points per game. Those marks check in at sixth and T-13th in the NCAA, respectively, while also ranking first and second in the ACC (as of 12.2.22).
- Redshirt junior Jordyn Oliver checks in at No. 5 nationally and first in the ACC with a 4.29 assist-to-turnover ratio (as of 12.2.22). She leads the team with 3.8 assists per game.
- Behind some stingy first-half defense and a balanced offensive attack, the Duke women's basketball team picked up a 66-50 victory over Northwestern Thursday evening at Cameron Indoor Stadium.
- Freshman Ashlon Jackson reached double figures for the first time this season as she paced the Blue Devils' offense with 10 points.
- Elizabeth Balogun, Kennedy Brown and Lee Volker chipped in eight points apiece while Shayeann Day-Wilson and Celeste Taylor added seven each.
- Brown and Balogun each grabbed a team-high eight rebounds, with Jordyn Oliver (seven) and Taylor (six) combining for 13 of the team's assists.
- Duke and Richmond have squared off on the hardwood seven times through the history of the respective programs with six wins going the way of Duke.
- Sunday's tilt will be the first meeting between the squads since the 1996-97 season -- a 29-point win by the Blue Devils.
SCOUTING THE SPIDERS
- Richmond enters Sunday's contest on the heels of a 74-62 victory over William & Mary. Grace Townsend tallied 23 points to lead the Spiders.
- The Spiders feature four players averaging double-figure points, led by Addie Budnik's 13.4 points per game. Grace Townsend is close behind at 12.4 points a contest while Katie Hill and Siobhan Ryan average 10.6 and 10.1 points, respectively.
- Richmond currently tops the Atlantic 10 in field goal percentage defense (35.0), rebound margin (+7.0), three-point percentage defense (26.0) all categories that they finished the previous season at the bottom of the league.
- UR is also first in free throw percentage (83.1), second in scoring defense (56.6) and third in scoring margin (11.6).
- Head coach Aaron Roussell is his fourth season at the helm of the program and sports a 50-41 overall record at Richmond.
- Rousell recently captured his 200th victory at the NCAA Division I level with the Spiders' 80-49 victory over Idaho (Nov. 26).
SHARING THE WEALTH
- The Duke quintet of senior Elizabeth Balogun, junior Kennedy Brown, sophomores Shayeann Day-Wilson and Reigan Richardson and senior Celeste Taylor have provided a steady hand for the Blue Devils in the early 2022-23 season, combining for 64.3 percent (44.0 points) of the team's 68.4 points per game.
- Taylor has reached double digits in five of the eight games this season, followed by Balogun, Brown and Richardson who've totaled double-figure scoring in four games.
- Day-Wilson has scored 10-plus points on two occasions.
- Taylor leads the offensive charge for Duke with 11.1 points per game with Balogun in second at 9.5 points a contest.
- Brown (9.1) and Day-Wilson (7.3) are next in line while Richardson rounds out the group with a 7.0 point per game average.
- As a team, the Blue Devils have assisted on 132 of their 212 made field goals (.623) for an average of 16.5 dimes per game.
- Redshirt junior Jordyn Oliver checks in at No. 5 nationally and first in the ACC (as of 12.2.22) with a 4.29 assist-to-turnover ratio. She leads the team with 3.8 assists per game.
DISRUPTING THE PEACE
- Disruptive defense has been the calling card for the Blue Devils early in the season as the team has held its opponents to a 31.6 percent clip from the field and 50.8 points per game.
- Those marks check in at sixth and T-13th in the NCAA, respectively, while also ranking first and second in the ACC (as of 12.2.22).
- The Blue Devils have held five of their eight opponents to 50 points or less this season.
- In the game against Northwestern on Thursday, Duke held the Wildcats to 12 points in the first half, which is the lowest opening-half point total by a Blue Devil opponent this season.
- Senior guard Celeste Taylor has been a pest defensively as she has totaled the seventh-most steals in the conference (18) for a 2.25 per game average (as of 12.2.22).
- Taylor has tallied at least two steals in five of the Blue Devils' eight games this season, including four and six steal efforts against Charleston Southern (11.10.22) and Oregon State (11.27.22), respectively.
TAYLOR HAS HER EYES ON THE (GRAND) PRIZE
- Senior Celeste Taylor is rapidly closing in on 1,000 career points as she looks to become the third Blue Devil on the 2022-23 roster to surpass the benchmark.
- Taylor has tallied 89 points through seven games this season to move her career total to 966, needing only 34 points to reach a grand
UP NEXT
Duke gears up for its final home game of the non-conference slate, welcoming Austin Peay to Cameron on Thursday, Dec. 8. Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m., on ACCNX
To stay up to date with Duke women's basketball, follow the team on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook by searching "DukeWBB."
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