ESPN is honoring longtime broadcaster Dick Vitale with a big-time college basketball matchup featuring Duke in Charlotte.

The Blue Devils have a lot of production to replace in 2025-26, and after the NBA draft deadline, they fell out of the top 10 in ESPN's rankings.

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ESPN has revealed the dates for the 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge featuring 32 games of men's and women's basketball across 3 days.

The Duke Blue Devils are lining up plenty of power conference foes to play next basketball season, starting with the Texas Longhorns in Charlotte at the Dick Vitale Invitational.

In the wake of beating cancer, Dick Vitale has signed a new contract with ESPN that will run through the 2027-28 season

Dick Vitale has signed a multi-year extension with ESPN and the network has created the Dick Vitale Invitational, an annual event in his honor

The announcement comes on the 86th birthday of “Dickie V,” and months after his return to the airwaves after a fourth battle with cancer.