Duke basketball ready for Prime time. What we know about Blue Devils’ media deal
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- Duke and Prime Video agreed to telecast three major nonconference games next season.
- Prime Video will air Duke vs. UConn in Las Vegas, and Duke vs. Michigan at MSG.
- Duke commited to select neutral-site nonconference games in 2027-28 and 2028-29.
Duke and Amazon have reached a multi-year agreement to have Prime Video telecast three major nonconference games next season — the first a rematch against Connecticut.
Prime Video will show the Blue Devils and Huskies facing off in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2026. That will match the two teams that played in the NCAA Elite Eight in March, UConn winning on a last-second 35-footer by Braylon Mullins.
On Dec. 21, there will be another rematch: Duke and Michigan, the 2026 NCAA champion, at Madison Square Garden in New York. The two played a marquee nonconference game late last season that Duke won in Washington, D.C.
Duke and Gonzaga are set to meet Feb. 20, 2027 in Little Caesars Arena in Detroit.
The game times for the three games have not been set. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
As part of its agreement with ESPN, the ACC’s primary media partner, Duke has confirmed it will commit to select nonconference games at neutral sites in both the 2027-28 and 2028-29 seasons. No further details have been released on those games.
Michigan, Duke and UConn were the three most-watched teams, in that order, in college basketball for the 2025-26 season, according to Nielsen. Michigan had 3.353 million viewers, Duke 2.965 million and Connecticut 2.842 million.
“In addition to our outstanding partnership with ESPN, we are excited to work with Prime Video on this groundbreaking initiative,” Duke athletics director Nina King said in a statement. “As Prime Video’s first college sports partner, this collaboration not only expands the global reach of Duke men’s basketball, but also creates meaningful opportunities for our student-athletes in a way that reflects innovation and excellence.”
The game in Las Vegas against UConn will present some interesting storylines.
Mullins, the last-second hero for the Huskies, decided to return for a sophomore season rather than declare for the NBA draft. Also playing for the Huskies will be forward Nikolas Khamenia, who has transferred to UConn after his freshman season at Duke.
Duke edged Michigan in a 68-63 heavyweight slugfest that had the teams’ top stars, Duke’s Cameron Boozer and Michigan’s Yaxel Lendeborg, both play well in a tight game. Michigan then defeated UConn in the national championship game for the school’s second NCAA title.
Boozer and Lendeborg are headed to the NBA. The returnees from that game in Washington’s Capital One Arena will include guard Caleb Foster of Duke and Elliot Cadeau of Michigan, and the game this season could have freshman guards Deron Rippey Jr. of Duke and Brandon McCoy Jr. of Michigan, both 5-star recruits, competing against each other.
Gonzaga, traditionally one of the nations’ best programs under coach Mark Few, will be coming off a 31-4 season that ended with an NCAA second-round loss to Texas. Gonzaga recently added a top portal target: 7-1 center Massamba Diop, a transfer from Arizona State.
