DBR Podcast #824: Schedule Updates And Combine Evaluations

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 22: Caleb Foster #1 of the Duke Blue Devils puts up a shot against the Illinois Fighting Illini at Madison Square Garden on February 22, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Lance King/Getty Images) | Getty Images

Duke Men’s Basketball has set up another terrific home-and-home series, and the NBA Draft declarees hit up the Draft Combine. Donald and Jason go over it all on Episode 824!

Duke has a couple of games added to the schedule: a home-and-home with Illinois starting with a game in Cameron this fall along with Coastal Carolina on the first week of the season. We discuss those games and opine as to how the schedule might look as it starts to get filled out. We also discuss a potential exhibition game against Tennessee that would be a return game for the one that was played in Knoxville last year.

We then discuss the NBA Draft Combine and how Cam Boozer, Isaiah Evans, Maliq Brown and John Blackwell are doing. We don’t get into a full draft preview, but we discuss how Boozer, Slim, and Maliq are stacking up against the others and whether Blackwell has done enough to be this year’s Cedric Coward. We then end with some information about how Duke dominates all the ACC’s TV numbers.

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