Happy Veteran's Day to all who served and protected our country. Would love to see the members on this board who served our country. OFC

Of interest for Duke purposes not just because Louisville is in the ACC.

Bellarmine leads 41-30 at halftime. You might remember from last season: Bellarmine won the A-SUN conference tournament but couldn't go to the NCAA tournament (or any postseason) because of the NCAA's antiquated rules about schools transitioning to D-1 being ineligible to compete in postseasons. They beat Jacksonville in the A-SUN championship game.

Bellarmine comes to Cameron on Nov. 21. It's Duke's last game before going to the PK85. Feel pretty safe in saying that's Duke's toughest mid-major on the non-conference schedule.

Lenhardt's recruiting is wide open, no official visits have been set, but he is looking at/talking to Duke. Update on Rivals:

LETS GET READY TO RUMBLE!! After another long offseason(although the older I get the shorter that off-season feels) it’s finally time to tip off. There will be a new king roaming the sidelines this year with national champion Jon Scheyer taking the helm after the goat walked off in nearly perfect fashion last year. The talk has happened, the speculation is over and we are now in a NEW era of duke basketball, let’s hope it’s a good one

Jacksonville state comes in off of a solid 21-22 season with a record of 21-10 and a 5 point lose in their conference championship game. They appear to return most of that core team for second year head coach Jordan Mincy who won the “joe b hall award” for top first year head coach in the country.. last year they also had the #5 scoring defense and #12 rebounding margin in the nation

this game doesn’t appear to be the pushover we might expect but prediction time…..

Duke-83
Jacksonville- 68

they keep it close for a while but we pull away the last 10-12 minutes

Previewing tomorrow night's season opener and the start of the Jon Scheyer era.

Programming note: I'll be there tomorrow night with full coverage. (will also have a football story from Mike Elko's presser in the afternoon)

Let’s hear your preseason prediction for your DUKE blue devils.

That this isn't gameday? What am I missing here?

Simmons is still tight with Duke, but an official with Illinois has been set. Update on Rivals:

I know this is the basketball forums but I gotta show love for our football team and first year coach Mike Elko. The turn around in just one year under him has been incredible, we’re bowl eligible for the first time in 3-4 years. Pretty awesome

NFL and college team and players if you want to post.
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NFL- Carolina panthers!!! Go baker haha

college- duke over anyone but Tennessee would be my college team I guess

player- Josh allen current, Favre or Peyton all time

Great outcome, but we have a lot of work to do. We should have pushed them around all night long. But great to be bowl-eligible!

Rumors coming out that he may not be ready for the start of the season, contradicting from last month when he was on pace to start the year. Would love to have him for the Kansas game, but at least this gives Grandison/Proctor a chance to start.
Is anyone else worried that this foot problem could be much longer than was originally reported?

Read somewhere that offer from Ohio State may be a problem because of scholarship availability. If true, good for Ohio State.
OFC

Here's the preseason All-ACC ballot I filed this morning -- with some explanations on picks and the way I see things shaking out.

Would love to know your thoughts, whether you think I'm going to be right or Wong!

Kansas has suspended Self for 4 games, including our game against Kansas, for the various violations relating to the Adidas affair. What a joke. Kansas opted to go through the Independent Accountability Resolution Process instead of the NCAA, which I believe was put in place specifically to deal with infractions stemming from the Adidas affair, and got off lightly. Of course, the irony is that now, with NIL, they could have achieved the same without being secretive about it.

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-b...s-suspends-bill-self-4-games-infractions-case

Tonight's game is at 7. In a programming alert, I'll be there with coverage tonight. The game is available for streaming on ESPN+/ACCNExtra.

I've heard it's unlikely Dereck Lively II or Dariq Whitehead plays tonight -- it sounds like there's a chance Lively is back for Monday's opener. Whitehead, I'm not sure you should plan on seeing him until Kansas.

A little background on Fayetteville State: They went 21-9 last season and won the CIAA. They return one of their three leading scorers (Cress Worthy).

In the meantime ... What do you want to see from Duke?

For me, the generalities are shooting and defense. It's going to be quite the juxtaposition to go from playing Houston to a Division II team.

I know it’s only an exhibition game, but Mitchell’s motor is turbocharged. Good things happen when he’s in. Very reminiscent of Justin Winslow, perhaps the ultimate glue guy in the program. Really like him.

Tennessee whipped gonzaga (not a secret one but still won’t count on record)

We’re playing Houston.. any news on that?

I just listened to the latest 5 point play podcast. Those guys are really high on Proctor. Out of the three fore mentioned freshmen, who has the best year, stat wise? Who is more important to their team's success? Dig deep. Yes, I know this is a Duke forum!

Calipari is often (and justifiably) the target of our scorn, but he deserves to be recognized for doing a good deed as well. Hats off to him and to Michael McGuire, who sounds like someone we’d all like our kids to emulate.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/26/us/k...-john-calipari-coal-miner-son-game/index.html

Included in this rundown from Travis Graf.

Everything still stands as far as his recruitment; it's early, Duke is a leader, he hasn't been to campus (yet).

Tomorrow night is Countdown to Craziness -- here's a list of 10 things I'll be watching closely.

It will be streamed on ACC Network Extra -- will pass along the link when I get it.

As a programming note -- I'll be there with coverage. Looking forward to seeing this team actually on the court, even if it is just for a scrimmage.

My apologies if this subject already exists but I did not see it.
Darren Harris will be making his choice known Saturday. A SF with a reputation as a good shooter. Four CB picks for Duke.