Fournier Posts Double-Double as Duke Rolls Past Belmont, 76-46

Saturday, December 20

Nashville, Tenn.

3 p.m.

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Fournier Posts Double-Double as Duke Rolls Past Belmont, 76-46

12/20/2025 6:11:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Duke sophomore Toby Fournier posted 26 points and 16 rebounds to lead the Blue Devils to a 76-46 victory win over Belmont in non-conference women's basketball action the Curb Event Saturday afternoon.

The win is the third straight for the Blue Devils and evens their record to 6-6 for the year. Riley Nelson added a career-high 17 points, a rebound and two assists, and Delaney Thomas rounded out the double-digit scorers with 10 points. Ashlon Jackson was the playmaker with a career-best eight assists.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Duke used an 8-0 run over a span of 2:07 in the first quarter to build a 10-2 lead after the first media timeout of the contest. Fournier led the surge with six points, including an old-fashioned three-point play, while Nelson scored the other bucket for the Blue Devils.
Coming out of the huddle, Belmont answered with a 7-0 spurt to make it a one-point game,10-9, with under two minutes to play. Taina Mair stopped the run with a pair of free throws, but Duke couldn't find the bottom of the net again, heading into the first break with a narrow 12-11 lead.
Duke scored the first 10 points of the second period to push its lead to 22-11 after 6:28 of play. Nelson scored seven of the 10 points, and the Blue Devils defense held Belmont scoreless for 7:38 and to 0-14 shooting in the first seven minutes of the quarter.
The Blue Devils, spurred by six straight points by Fournier, went on an 8-1 run in the final 2:50 of the period to head into the locker room with the 30-15 advantage. Nelson and Fournier combined for 16 of the team's 18 points in the second quarter and Duke held the Bruins to 1-of-19 shooting in the stanza.
After getting off to a slow start offensively in the third quarter – two points in the first 2:36 – Duke ran off six points in a span of 1:05 to stretch the lead to 18, 39-21, and forced Belmont to call a timeout.
Fournier and the Blue Devils kept the momentum, pushing the lead to 51-30 after three quarters. Fournier finished the period with 10 points.
The start of the fourth quarter was all Blue Devils as they rattled off six points in 1:16 to make it a 25-point game, 57-32, with 8:02 left in the contest.
Back-to-back threes from Nelson and Jackson gave the Blue Devils their largest lead of the game, 65-35, en route to the 76-46 final score.
Hillary Fuller led the Bruins with 19 points, going 7-of-15 from the floor, while adding two rebounds, two blocks and an assist.

UP NEXT

The Blue Devils return from the brief holiday break to resume ACC play at Syracuse, Dec. 28. Tipoff at the JMA Wireless Dome is set for 4 p.m.

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