The Duke men's basketball team is set to battle Auburn in Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, welcoming the Tigers on Wednesday, Dec. 4, as part of the second edition of the ACC/SEC Challenge.
Tip-off time and TV information will be announced at a later date.
Duke and Auburn are meeting for the fifth time overall and for the first time since 2018. The Blue Devils hold a 4-0 advantage in the series, most recently emerging victorious, 78-72, on Nov. 20, 2018, in the Maui Invitational semifinals. The two teams have clashed inside Cameron Indoor Stadium just once prior, when Duke edged past Auburn, 72-71, on Dec. 30, 1981.
Auburn's trip to Durham will mark the first SEC opponent to play at Duke since Florida did so during the 1998-99 season, a game in which the Blue Devils raced to a 116-86 victory on Dec. 9, 1998.
Duke dropped its inaugural game in the ACC/SEC Challenge, 80-75, at Arkansas last season, while Auburn is 1-0 in the challenge after defeating Virginia Tech, 74-57, in last year's event.
The Blue Devils entered the first season of the new cross-conference challenge with a 20-4 record in the previous event, the ACC/Big Ten Challenge, which marked the best overall record by any team in that Challenge all time, by six wins.
The Blue Devils' non-conference schedule now includes two games against both SEC and Big 12 foes, with Auburn (Durham, N.C., Dec. 4) joining the previously-announced Kentucky (Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 12), Kansas (Las Vegas, Nev., Nov. 26) and Arizona (Tucson, Ariz., TBA) matchups. All four of those opponents are coming off NCAA tournament campaigns last season in which each respective team earned a top-four seed or better in the 68-team field.
The Blue Devils finished 27-9 in the 2023-24 season, under the direction of second-year head coach Jon Scheyer, highlighted by a run to the program's 24th all-time Elite Eight appearance. Duke returns two starters from last season's squad – junior Tyrese Proctor and sophomore Caleb Foster – while also signing the nation's top-ranked recruiting class and also making four additions through the transfer portal.
Duke's six-player freshman class includes five top-20 players in 247Sports' rankings, and consists of five-star prospects Cooper Flagg (6-9, F, Newport, Maine/Montverde Academy), Isaiah Evans (6-6, G/F, Huntersville, N.C./North Mecklenburg HS), Kon Knueppel (6-6, G/F, Milwaukee, Wis./Wisconsin Lutheran HS), Patrick Ngongba II (6-11, C, Fairfax, Va./Paul VI Catholic) and Khaman Maluach (7-2, C, South Sudan, Africa/NBA Academy Africa), and four-star recruit Darren Harris (6-6, G/F, Fairfax, Va./Paul VI Catholic).
In the transfer portal, Duke added four-star transfers Sion James (6-6, G, Sugar Hill, Ga./Lanier HS/Tulane), Maliq Brown (6-8, F, Culpeper, Va./Blue Ridge HS/Syracuse) and Mason Gillis (6-6, F, New Castle, Ind./New Castle HS/Purdue) along with Cameron Sheffield (6-6, G, Alpharetta, Ga./ Chattahoochee HS/Rice).
