• Duke women's basketball faces a difficult 2025-26 non-conference schedule, playing nine teams from the 2025 NCAA Tournament. • Coach Kara Lawson believes a tough schedule is necessary to test her team before starting ACC play. • The Blue Devils will play notable opponents like Baylor, South Carolina, UCLA or Texas, and LSU. • Lawson stated that early season challenges have been key to the team's success in recent years.

Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson did not sugar coat the Blue Devils ' 2025-26 non-conference schedule.

"The schedule's hard," Lawson said on Tuesday, Sept. 23. "I think we play the hardest schedule in the league every year."

Of Duke 's 11 non-conference opponents, nine made it to the 2025 NCAA Tournament with six finishing within the top 50 of the NCAA E

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