Three months after getting off to its worst start since 1983-84, Duke is the women’s Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament champion. Even as confetti fell on the 13th-ranked Blue Devils following their 70-65 overtime thriller over No. 12 Louisville on Sunday, coach Kara Lawson remembered the down times. Lawson says she will think of this season every time she hears the record “3-6” for the rest of her life. That was how the Blue Devils started in 2025-26. They responded by winning 17 straight games. Duke won the ACC regular-season title in addition to the tourney crown.