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All-ACC third baseman Ben Miller surprises everyone by returning to Duke baseball team

Duke baseball’s All-ACC third baseman Ben Miller announced on Monday that he will return for the 2025 season.

As we speed towards the start of football season and drool over what could happen fin Cameron Indoor Stadium starting in November, the Duke baseball team just received some major news of its own on Monday.

Ben Miller, a significant part of Duke’s team in 2024, announced on Monday that he would return for one final season with the Duke team.

Miller is no stranger to Durham. He grew up there. Before Duke, Ben played collegiate baseball at Penn, the Ivy League school. He then transferred home to play his fourth year of college baseball.

With one final year of eligibility, Miller decided to play with the Blue Devils for one more season instead of seeking professional opportunities. He started in all 55 games in 2024, leading the team with a .360 batting average. He scored 56 runs from the top of the lineup while tallying 82 hits, including 18 doubles, one triple, and 15 home runs. He drove in 49 runs for an explosive Duke offense.

Last year, he posted 13 two-hit days, six three-hit days, and one four-hit day. In short, he was a firestarter for Chris Pollard and the Duke team. At the end of the season, he was named the All-ACC First Team third baseman and was a big force in the conference tournament as Duke clenched an ACC Tournament title.

Miller’s return can’t be overstated. It gives Duke leadership and instant offense and fills a significant hole in the infield that Duke could’ve struggled to fill.

 

Penn State basketball to host Penn Quakers in non-conference game

Penn State is reportedly going to host a Big 5 basketball program this season.

Penn State’s men’s basketball schedule continues to be coming together leading up to the start of the new college basketball season. As reported by one notable college basketball insider, the Nittany Lions are adding a home game against an opponent from The Big Five in Philadelphia.

According to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports, via X (formerly known as Twitter), Penn State will host Penn in a non-conference matchup. the game is reportedly set for Dec. 29 in the Bryce Jordan Center. It will be the first regular-season meeting with the Quakers since 2013.

Penn State is 19-30 all-time in games against the Quakers. Penn State has won four consecutive games in the in-state series, including an 83-71 victory in the most recent meeting in 2013.

Penn State’s non-conference slate for the 2024-25 season, the second under head coach Mike Rhoades, will include matchups with Virginia Tech in Baltimore and participation in the Sunshine Slam games in Daytona Beach that could pit the Nittany Lions against Clemson, Fordham, or San Francisco in late November.

Penn State has yet to confirm any non-conference matchups outside of the Virginia Tech matchup and the Sunshine Slam tournament. Penn State’s Big Ten opponents have been locked in, although specific dates have not been confirmed by the conference at this time.

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Penn’s high scoring guard Jordan Dingle enters transfer portal

One of the Ivy League’s best players has entered the transfer portal

One of the country’s top scorers from this past season, University of Pennsylvania guard Jordan Dingle has entered the transfer portal, he told ESPN on Friday morning. 

The 6-foot-3 guard out of Blair Academy in New Jersey averaged 23.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 2.23 assist for the Quakers this past season over 28 games. For his career, he’s averaged 19.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game over 79 total games and 72 starts. His fantastic 2022-23 season was a follow-up to an almost nearly as good 2021-2022 season that saw him post 20.9 points, 3.6 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game.

This past season, his 23.4 points per game was second in the nation only behind Detroit Mercy’s Antoine Davis who averaged 28.2 points per game. Overall, he was only one of 26 players in the entire country to average 20+ points a night.

Notably, Dingle is a volume shooter, he averaged nearly 17 shots per game this past season but was rather efficient in doing so with a 46.4% shooting percentage and an effective field goal percentage of 54.6%.

During his three years with Penn, Dingle was a two-time All-Ivy League selection and two-time All-Ivy League tournament selection as well as being named the 2019-20 Ivy League Rookie of the Year and the 2022-2023 Ivy League MVP.

Now in the transfer portal, Dingle is expected to become one of the more highly sought players in the transfer portal.

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