The Duke basketball team gets to battle Caleb Love one last time in the 2024-25 season, and a Tuesday report from Jeff Goodman says the date might be set.
After hosting the Arizona Wildcats in the second game of the season last fall, the Blue Devils will reportedly play them in Tucson on November 22.
Love, who helped North Carolina defeat Duke in Mike Krzyzewski’s final home game and in the Final Four during his final postseason back in 2022, transferred to Arizona ahead of the 2023-24 season and beat Duke again. He recently announced he’d return for his last year of eligibility.
The game, which would be the Friday before Thanksgiving if Goodman’s report is correct, would be one day after the initial schedule. When Duke first announced the home-and-home series, the team release said the Blue Devils would play the Wildcats on November 21.
Either way, the game comes less than a week before a Nov. 26 battle against Kansas in Las Vegas.
Duke’s return game in Tucson against Arizona is slated for Nov. 22, source told @TheFieldOf68.
Give Jon Scheyer credit for putting together some big boy non-conference games again this season.
11-12 vs UK in Atlanta
11-22 at Arizona
11-26 Kansas in Vegas
2-22 vs Illinois…— Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanHoops) June 4, 2024
The Blue Devils also play Kentucky, now without former head coach John Calipari, in the fall before taking on Illinois at Madison Square Garden in February.