Duke opens the 2025-26 season in Charlotte against the Texas Longhorns. As you may know, Texas is starting over, having given Rodney Terry the boot after last season and hiring Sean Miller.<\/p>\n
Miller was doing a second tour at Xavier after getting fired by Arizona after the Adidas\/FBI scandal.<\/p>\n
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Texas fired Terry after the Longhorns lost to \u2013 wait for it \u2013 Xavier \u2013 in last spring\u2019s NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
We don\u2019t know yet what Miller is working with in Austin, but whatever else you may think about him, and plenty of people have had thoughts following the fiasco in Tucson, he\u2019s not a bad coach. He\u2019s not a great coach, but he did well at Arizona, getting his team to Elite Eight three times, in addition to taking Xavier that far in 2008.<\/p>\n
So what does his team think about opening against Duke? Glad you asked.<\/a><\/p>\n Tramon Mark said this: \u201cI love it. Duke\u2019s a great challenge for us right out of the season. It\u2019ll test everything that we\u2019ve been working on. These 30 days of practice that we\u2019re about to have is all for that right there.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Fellow guard Jordan Pope added this: \u201cIt\u2019ll be a good test, obviously, right out the gate, throw us into the fire, see what we\u2019re made of. College basketball, that\u2019s what you ask for. That\u2019s what you want. You don\u2019t want to start off playing some random team. So I think a school like Duke, which is a very prominent team in college basketball, and I\u2019m pretty sure they\u2019ll be highly ranked. It\u2019ll be a good opportunity for us to see where we stand and how we\u2019re looking November 4.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019ll see soon enough.<\/p>\n Blue Healer Auctions<\/a> | Drop us a line<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duke opens the 2025-26 season in Charlotte against the Texas Longhorns. As you may know, Texas is starting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,2843,398,400,401,57446,16896,99,5690],"class_list":["post-187906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-duke","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-rodney-terry","tag-sean-miller","tag-sports","tag-texas-longhorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}