Now that former Duke player Tommy Amaker no longer is coaching at Michigan, the Blue Devils again will be playing the Wolverines in men's basketball.

Duke associate athletics director Mike Cragg said Tuesday that the two schools have a new two-year agreement to play a home-and-home series beginning in 2007.

Duke will host the first game in early December at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The 2008 game will be played at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich. Times and dates have not yet been determined.

"It's just the two years for now, just to get it going again," Cragg said. "That's one of the first things we did [after Amaker was let go]. CBS is involved. It'll be just like it used to be."

Amaker, who played on Mike Krzyzewski's first Final Four team in 1986 and was on Duke's coaching staff from 1989-97, was fired March 17 after six seasons.

Michigan hired West Virginia coach John Beilein to replace Amaker. Then, Amaker accepted the job at Harvard on April 13.

Krzyzewski long has said he dislikes coaching against his former players, but Amaker took the Michigan job in 2001 with two years left on the existing deal with Duke.

They played out the contract, and Duke chose not to renew it.

The Blue Devils went 11-4 against the Wolverines, always playing an early December game, in the 14 uninterrupted years of the series from 1989-2002.

Michigan grabbed three of its four victories during that same 14-year period with a three-game winning streak from 1995-97.

The one game not played under contract was the 1992 NCAA title game. Duke beat the Wolverines, led by Michigan's Fab Five freshman class, to win its second consecutive NCAA title.

Duke and Michigan have played 24 times total, dating back to 1963, with Duke winning 17 times.