Duke in Pictures: Women's Basketball Wins ACC Title
Blue Devils defeat Wolfpack in championship
The third time was the charm for head coach Joanne P. McCallie as her top-seeded Blue Devils claimed Duke's sixth ACC Tournament Championship Sunday afternoon from the Greensboro Coliseum.
McCallie claimed her first ACC Tournament Championship over sixth-seeded N.C. State, 70-60, after reaching the finals in each of her first two seasons.
"It is kind of like the appetizer before the big meal [NCAA Tournament], and it is a very, very good appetizer," McCallie said.
It is the sixth ACC Tournament Championship for the Blue Devils in eleven Championship appearances. Duke won five straight from 2000-2004, but had lost their last three title games prior to this afternoon.
"We worked so hard," senior Joy Cheek said. "I think coming into this year we had this goal... Three of us have seen us go through the ACC Tournament Championship and come up short, and those balloons and streamers we had to watch fall down for someone else. We didn't want to see that happen again."
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