Early in November, Jon Scheyer’s fourth Duke basketball team will play at least one in-state opponent.
The responsibility of being the successor to the 35-win Final Four Blue Devils falls to the 2025–26 Duke basketball team, which is still in the process of being assembled but will be led by the incoming twins Cayden and Cameron Boozer as well as at least two additional five-star rookies, Shelton Henderson and Nikolas Khamenia. This includes continuing the 17-game victory streak at home that the 2024–25 team had already established.
The fourth group of Blue Devils under Jon Scheyer’s leadership will now play the Western Carolina Catamounts at Cameron Indoor Stadium in the upcoming season. According to the post from national college hoops schedule expert Made For March, it’s “a buy game with a $90,000 guarantee.”
As part of early non-conference action, Duke and Western Carolina will tip off on Friday, November 7, or Saturday, November 8.
The Blue Devils and Catamounts have met three times before in December in the mid-1990s, all three times at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The programs haven’t played since Duke won by 20 in 1993, 40 in 1995, and 50 in 1996.
