Duke's Nonconference Schedule

[UConnCat]

released today. Not nearly as tough as last year's OOC schedule; toughest games will be A&M, SC and Kentucky. I like the season opener; I work for Penn so that is already marked on my calendar.

Nov. 13 at Penn
Nov. 15 vs. Winthrop
Nov. 18 vs. Texas A&M
Nov. 22 vs. Army
Nov. 26 vs. Idaho (in Cancun)
Nov. 27 vs. Iowa State (in Cancun)
Nov. 28 vs. Texas State (in Cancun)
Dec. 3 vs. Minnesota
Dec. 6 at South Carolina
Dec. 14 vs. Massachusetts
Dec. 17 vs. Liberty
Dec. 20 at Kentucky
Dec. 29 vs. Western Carolina
Dec. 31 vs. UNC Wilmington

 

[triaddukefan]

Last year's schedule was brutal. This is a good schedule for a young squad. Not so great of a home slate. Glad to see the South Carolina game is on a Sunday...... sounds like I should make a trip down to Columbia for some fried chicken I LOVE Fried chicken.

 

[CocoHusky]

No wonder Duke is such a highly regarded academic institution- Thanksgiving in Cancun. Nice work pulling that off!

 

[triaddukefan]

No wonder Duke is such a highly regarded academic institution- Thanksgiving in Cancun. Nice work pulling that off!

Two years ago they were in the Virgin Islands over thanksgiving. Ahh..... the benefits some of these WCBB players have. Now that I think about it... they played in the Bahamas over thanksgiving in 2011. So I assume schools arent allowed to take these trips in consecutive seasons?

 

[Bonpland]

Well Triaduke you'll have to pencil in eleven wins and then hope to take two of three from the A&M, SC, and Kentucky. You are young but I think that Salvadores will be an instant star and you had to make a mess of the last few minutes with SC to lose that one last year, so even with EW gone I think you'll have plenty to root for in the non-comference games. Your league will be very tough though.

 

[triaddukefan]

Well Triaduke you'll have to pencil in eleven wins and then hope to take two of three from the A&M, SC, and Kentucky. You are young but I think that Salvadores will be an instant star and you had to make a mess of the last few minutes with SC to lose that one last year, so even with EW gone I think you'll have plenty to root for in the non-comference games. Your league will be very tough though.

13-1 .... at worst

no need to bump this thread in december if im wrong

 

[Bonpland]

Given your competition in the ACC and your SC game I'll be rooting for you to make some noise and knock off a few giants.

 

[cbraarj]

Last year's schedule was brutal. This is a good schedule for a young squad. Not so great of a home slate. Glad to see the South Carolina game is on a Sunday. sounds like I should make a trip down to Columbia for some fried chicken I LOVE Fried chicken.

Sold me on the fried chicken!

 

[cockhrnleghrn]

Last year's schedule was brutal. This is a good schedule for a young squad. Not so great of a home slate. Glad to see the South Carolina game is on a Sunday. sounds like I should make a trip down to Columbia for some fried chicken I LOVE Fried chicken.

LOL, we'll see about that. Holler if you need recommendations for accommodations.

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

Two years ago they were in the Virgin Islands over thanksgiving. Ahh..... the benefits some of these WCBB players have. Now that I think about it... they played in the Bahamas over thanksgiving in 2011. So I assume schools arent allowed to take these trips in consecutive seasons?

I checked the NCAA rules. A bit confusing, but -
- multiple team tournaments (3 to 4 games essentially counting as 2 games) can occur in the US, it's territories (Virgin Islands, for example), the Bahamas, Canada or Mexico.
- you can not go to the same tournament in consecutive years (and have it count as "2 games")
- you can play games in foreign countries - excluding Canada and Mexico - only once in 4 years (in season). So, for example, you could only participate in a tourney in the Bahamas once every 4 years if I'm reading correctly, but you could, if you were so minded, play Notre Dame in Ireland once every 4 years if you wanted to, as it says one or more games on one trip once every 4 years.

There is also something called a "certified foreign tour", but so far as I can tell, this rule refers to the summer trips (once very 4 years) that some schools take, and also refers to conference team tours that you used to see (i.e. a "Big 10" team, with a limit to the number of players from each institution).

May I recommend the NCAA manual, available for free, as a resource? I've used it for years, ever since learning of it from the Rutgers compliance office during a presentation. Before the days of free download, I even bought a couple of hard copies.

 

[mhshuskies]

Not too tough especially when you combine it with a conference schedule in the always over-rated ACC!