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2026 Schedule Tidbits

Lax Mouse said:


Duke hosting Bellarmine on 1/31. So they got that going for them at least . . .
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So they’ve got Bellarmine, Air Force and Jacksonville confirmed and … that’s it so far. Yikes. Not sure if it’s been mentioned, because I’m too lazy to go back through and look, but they’re not even playing Richmond this year.
 
last year duke played: princeton, penn, richmond, denver, michigan, bellarmine, jacksonville, st joes, air force, providence, bu

this year theyre playing (so far): bellarmine, jacksonville, air force, vermont

teams they played last year that we know theyre NOT playing this year: princeton, richmond, michigan, bu

they could still be playing denver. they could also still be playing penn, but if they are, it has to be a new date...could also play st joes again

among possible new teams, we know they are NOT playing: the entire b1g, harvard, dartmouth, brown, gtown, army, lehigh, lafayette, navy, fairfield, high point, nova, hofstra, umass

so these are the only decent-good new teams they still could be playing: cornell, yale, towson, colgate, albany, delaware, utah. cornell is the only one of these teams that is a lock to be top 20

i prob forgot someone, but thats the rundown...they could play cornell three times and their ooc schedule would still be a calamity
 
nyclax said:
last year duke played: princeton, penn, richmond, denver, michigan, bellarmine, jacksonville, st joes, air force, providence, bu

this year theyre playing (so far): bellarmine, jacksonville, air force, vermont

teams they played last year that we know theyre NOT playing this year: princeton, richmond, michigan, bu

they could still be playing denver. they could also still be playing penn, but if they are, it has to be a new date...could also play st joes again

among possible new teams, we know they are NOT playing: the entire b1g, harvard, dartmouth, brown, gtown, army, lehigh, lafayette, navy, fairfield, high point, nova, hofstra, umass

so these are the only decent-good new teams they still could be playing: cornell, yale, towson, colgate, albany, delaware, utah. cornell is the only one of these teams that is a lock to be top 20

i prob forgot someone, but thats the rundown...they could play cornell three times and their ooc schedule would still be a calamity
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If they play 15 games again, which Danowski likes to do, they’ve got SEVEN unknown games at this point. Which is your entire list of “decent-good.” Like you say, no matter who they play, their OOC schedule will be atrocious. Either everyone is tired of playing them for some reason, or they know they’re going to be trash.
 
nyclax said:
last year duke played: princeton, penn, richmond, denver, michigan, bellarmine, jacksonville, st joes, air force, providence, bu

this year theyre playing (so far): bellarmine, jacksonville, air force, vermont

teams they played last year that we know theyre NOT playing this year: princeton, richmond, michigan, bu

they could still be playing denver. they could also still be playing penn, but if they are, it has to be a new date...could also play st joes again

among possible new teams, we know they are NOT playing: the entire b1g, harvard, dartmouth, brown, gtown, army, lehigh, lafayette, navy, fairfield, high point, nova, hofstra, umass

so these are the only decent-good new teams they still could be playing: cornell, yale, towson, colgate, albany, delaware, utah. cornell is the only one of these teams that is a lock to be top 20

i prob forgot someone, but thats the rundown...they could play cornell three times and their ooc schedule would still be a calamity
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Good call on Albany, I bet they are playing as UVA isn't this year and obviously Cuse isn't. Gate is already playing Cuse and UVA so I find it unlikely they are playing Dukde as well.

Best guess I have at this point would be Cornell, Yale, Towson, Albany, Utah and maybe one more.

One of the more bizarre schedules I have ever seen.
 
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jbfried3 said:
Albany is probably trying not to play a playin game this year
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They schedule pretty hard most years, this year might actually be a slight step back compared to the last few years. Albany's problem is their conference overall is weak and they have lost pretty much every high end OOC game the last 4-5 years.
 
The Cornell fans over at fanlax do seem to think Cornell will be playing Duke (and Denver). Unconfirmed but it does give credence to some speculation on Duke's OOC opponents. As many have noted, still would not be a very deep OOC schedule for Duke in terms of quality.
 
Looking at Duke's schedule more in depth:
Jan 31 Bellarmine at Duke
Feb 15 Vermont at Duke
Feb 21 Jacksonville at Duke
Mar 7 Duke at Air Force
Mar 28 Duke at Syracuse
Apr 4 UVa at Duke

Duke plays ND and UNC in April
Syracuse plays their OOC game (Colgate) on April 18, so Duke plays either ND or UNC on the 18th.
Virginia plays UNC on the 18th, so Duke - ND should on the 18th

Looking at the final weekend ~ April 25, Virginia has their OOC game with Drexel and Syracuse plays ND. So Duke should play UNC that weekend.

Leaving Duke to play an OOC opponent on the weekend of April 11

Cornell is the Ivy League team that doesn't play in conference on the weekend of April 11.
 
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