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It’s May, But Kara Lawson’s Rebuild Is Looking Solid

It’s been almost 10 months since Kara Lawson replaced Joanne P. McCallie as the head coach of Duke’s women’s basketball team and there’s still a lot we don’t know about her.

Oh, Lawson’s playing career is well known, an All-American at Tennessee, a sterling 12-year career in the WNBA and a 2008 Olympic gold medal. Add a stint as an ESPN analyst and a pioneering role as an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics and we’re looking at a person with a pretty robust name-recognition profile.

But can she coach women’s college basketball?

Lawson answered questions last year about her coaching style with a blend of pragmatism, matched with more pragmatism.