Duke basketball adds another marquee game to loaded schedule

The Duke basketball program has another major non-conference game for the 2021-22 season. 

There is no shortage of marquee games on the Duke basketball schedule in the final season under head coach Mike Krzyzewski, and the Blue Devils have learned their opponent for the ACC vs. Big Ten Challenge.

Coach K will be making one last trip to Columbus, Ohio as Duke will travel to battle the Ohio State Buckeyes on Tuesday, November 30.

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It will be the first meeting between the two programs since the 2012-13 season, in which the Blue Devils and Buckeyes met in the same event as Duke erased an eight-point halftime deficit to win, 73-68.

However, this will be Duke’s first trip to Columbus since the 2011-12 season, in which the Blue Devils were walloped by the Buckeyes, 85-63.

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Duke holds a 4-3 edge over Ohio State in the all-time series.

In its last four matchups against Ohio State, Duke had been ranked in the Top-4 of the Associated Press Top-25 Poll while the Buckeyes were inside the Top-5 the last two times it took the floor with the Blue Devils.

Duke has an overall record of 19-3 in the ACC vs. Big Ten Challenge, the most wins of any ACC or Big Ten team in the event, while posting a 6-2 record on the road.

The Blue Devils fell last year to the Illinois Fighting Illini at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the challenge.

Duke basketball continues to add to its loaded non-conference schedule

Things will not come easy for Mike Krzyzewski in his last season at the helm of the Blue Devils as he will challenge his young and talented roster early and often this year.

Duke will face Gonzaga in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 26 in addition to playing the Kentucky Wildcats at Madison Square Garden in the State Farm Champions Classic.

The Blue Devils are also slated to play Michigan State in East Lansing in the return game from the Spartans making the trip to Durham last season to play in the Champions Classic.

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Duke is hosting a multi-team event, which includes Army, Hartford and Campbell, and The Citadel will be entering Cameron Indoor Stadium this season after the scheduled matchup between the two programs last season was canceled.

That will be four games against power conference programs (Kentucky, Gonzaga, Ohio State, Michigan State) this year for Duke with none of the games coming inside the friendly confines of Cameron Indoor Stadium.