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Norfolk State, Duke to play in women’s basketball series

Free Press staff report | 6/12/2025, 6 p.m.
Norfolk State University and Duke University have finalized a home-and-home women’s basketball series set to take place over the next …
Guard Anjanae Richardson, who helped lead the Spartans to the 2025 MEAC Women’s Basketball Championship, and her squad will face Duke twice during the upcoming season. Photo courtesy of NSU Athletics

Norfolk State University and Duke University have finalized a home-and-home women’s basketball series set to take place over the next two seasons, the schools announced.

Norfolk State will travel to Cameron Indoor Stadium on Nov. 12. Duke is scheduled to visit Echols Hall during the 2026-27 season, marking the program’s first appearance in Norfolk. Tipoff times for both games will be announced later.

The matchup marks the second meeting between the two programs. Duke won the previous contest 95-48 in the first round of the 2002 NCAA Tournament, following Norfolk State’s first Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) tournament title.

The game at Echols Hall will be the first time a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference has played on Norfolk State’s home court in women’s basketball.

Duke ended the 2024-25 season with a 29-8 record and reached the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament, finishing the year ranked No. 7 in the country.

Norfolk State recently won its third consecutive MEAC Tournament Championship and earned a No. 13 seed in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, the highest seeding in program history.