The 2021–22 Duke Blue Devils women's basketball team represented Duke University during the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Blue Devils were led by second year head coach Kara Lawson and played their home games at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Blue Devils finished the season 17–13 overall and 7–11 in ACC play to finish in tenth place. As the tenth seed in the ACC tournament, they defeated Pittsburgh in the First Round before losing to seventh seed Miami in the Second Round. They were not invited to the NCAA tournament or the WNIT despite being ranked as high as No. 15 during the regular season.

Previous season

On December 25, 2020, it was announced that the team would end their season due to COVID-19 concerns.

The Blue Devils finished the season 3–1, and 0–1 in ACC play. Due to their season cancellation they did not participate in the ACC tournament, NCAA tournament or WNIT.

Off-season

Departures Departures Jaida Patrick 0 G/F 5'10" Sophomore West Haverstraw, New York Transferred to Columbia Jada Claude 4 G/F 6'0" Sophomore Fayetteville, Georgia Transferred to Morehead State Sara Anastasieska 11 G 5'11" Graduate Student Sydney, Australia Transferred to Illinois Mikayla Boykin 12 G 5'9" Senior Clinton, North Carolina Transferred to Charlotte Uchenna Nwoke 13 C 6'6" Junior Grand Prairie, Texas Left team Jennifer Ezeh 22 F 6'3" Sophomore Nibo, Nigeria Transferred to Missouri State Jayda Adams 32 G 6'0" Senior Irvine, California Transferred to Cal State Northridge

Incoming transfers Incoming transfers Celeste Taylor 0 G 5'11" Junior Valley Stream, New York Texas Elizabeth Balogun 4 G/F 6'1" Senior Chattanooga, Tennessee Louisville Jordyn Oliver 11 G 5'10" Junior Prosper, Texas Baylor Amaya Finklea-Guity 22 C 6'4" Graduate Student Dorchester, Massachusetts Syracuse Imani Lewis 23 F 6'1" Senior Willingboro, New Jersey Wisconsin Nyah Green 31 G 6'1" Junior Allen, Texas Louisville Lexi Gordon 34 G/F 6'0" Graduate Student Fort Worth, Texas Texas Tech Emma Schmidt 45 G 5'9" Graduate Student Waukee, Iowa TCU

Recruiting class

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Roster

Schedule

Source

!colspan=9 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| Exhibition

!colspan=9 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| Regular season

!colspan=9 style="background:#001A57; color:#FFFFFF;"| ACC Women's Tournament

Rankings 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball rankings + Regular season pollsPoll Pre-Season Week2 Week3 Week4 Week5 Week6 Week7 Week8 Week9 Week10 Week11 Week12 Week13 Week14 Week15 Week16 Week17 Week18 Final AP RV RV 19 15 16 15 17 16 21 21 RV RV Coaches RV 25 23 22 22 21 24 23 RV RV + Legend   Increase in ranking   Decrease in ranking   Not ranked in previous week (RV)   Received Votes (NR)   Not Ranked

Coaches did not release a Week 2 poll and AP does not release a final poll.

See also 2021–22 Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team

References