Duke Basketball’s ACC Conference Schedule Announced

The complete 2024-25 Duke men’s basketball schedule is now available, as the ACC announced the full conference slate of games on Tuesday, Sept. 24.

The league is debuting a new 20-game scheduling model for the upcoming season, with each team playing home and away games against its two respective scheduling partners and one additional repeat opponent, while the remaining 14 league games are set via seven home-only opponents and seven away-only opponents.

As previously announced, Duke’s home and away opponents this season are North Carolina, Wake Forest and Miami. The Blue Devils host California, Florida State, NC State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Stanford and Virginia Tech, while traveling to Boston College, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Louisville, SMU, Syracuse and Virginia.

In total, Duke is scheduled to appear on the ESPN family of networks at least 17 times, with 11 games on ACC Network and one on The CW Network, which acquired the rights in July of 2023 to air 50 ACC football and basketball games each season through 2026-27. The Blue Devils’ game versus Illinois in February will be broadcast by FOX, and the channel for Duke’s game at Arizona in November will be announced at a later date.

The Blue Devils’ full schedule includes previously-announced non-conference matchups against at least one team from each of the other three power-four conferences – at Arizona (Nov. 22), versus Kentucky (Champions Classic, Nov. 12), Kansas (Vegas Showdown, Nov. 26) and Illinois (SentinelOne Classic, Feb. 22) and Auburn at home (Dec. 4), alongside six additional home non-conference games.

Similar to the 2023-24 season, the Blue Devils play three of their first four conference games away from Cameron Indoor Stadium. The lid-lifter for ACC play for Duke falls on Sunday, Dec. 8 at Louisville, broadcast on ACC Network.

The team remains on the road for their next conference game, traveling to Georgia Tech on Dec. 21, before playing the Blue Devils’ ACC home-opener against Virginia Tech on New Year’s Eve.

With Duke playing at Louisville and Georgia Tech to open the ACC schedule, the Blue Devils are scheduled to play three true road games before Christmas for the first time since the 1990-91 season, while the six total games versus power conference opponents marks the second time in Jon Scheyer’s head coaching tenure that the team has done so.

The Blue Devils start the 2025 calendar year with their first ACC game at new conference member SMU, taking on the Mustangs on Jan. 4, 2025. The first extended homestand of Duke’s league schedule is in early January, as the Blue Devils host a trio of Pitt (Jan. 7), Notre Dame (Jan. 11) and Miami (Jan. 14).

Duke plays a total of 10 Saturday ACC games – four at home – and plays two of its final three regular season games inside Cameron Indoor Stadium. The other two new ACC squads – Cal and Stanford – make their first trip to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a conference game on Feb. 12 and 15, respectively.

The two-game set against North Carolina starts in Durham for the upcoming season, with the first game between the two rivals set for Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025, and the return game in Chapel Hill slated for the final day of the regular season schedule, March 8, 2025.

Duke’s Countdown to Craziness event is Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. The Blue Devils then host an exhibition on Saturday, Oct. 19 versus Lincoln (Pa.) at 1 p.m., and the inaugural Brotherhood Run welcomes Arizona State to Cameron Indoor Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 27 at 7 p.m., for a charity exhibition benefiting Duke Children’s Hospital.

Entering the third season under head coach Jon Scheyer, the Blue Devils are coming off an Elite Eight appearance in the 2024 NCAA Tournament. Duke’s lineup returns two starters – Caleb Foster and Tyrese Proctor – while adding the nation’s top recruiting class, headlined by Cooper Flagg, and multiple additions via the transfer portal, including Maliq Brown, Mason Gillis and Sion James.

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