DBR Podcast #232 - College Basketball has a start date!

[blazindw]

The NCAA announced Wednesday the new start date for the 2020-2021 college basketball season, and we jump on to react to it all on Episode 232! The new season will start on November 25th, and we discuss what that means for the early season games that we come to expect. How many games can the Duke Blue Devils play? How many non-conference games are mandated? How will these games happen? We discuss it all!

After the break, we bring back Parting Shots, with more discussion on the NCAA’s college basketball announcement, we give Coach David Cutcliffe his flowers on his 66th birthday, and we quickly discuss Jayson Tatum making 3rd team All-NBA and somehow getting snubbed in the process.

We’re bringing the content quick and in buckets right now, so as the football season progresses and we advance towards the start of the basketball season, there’s no better time to subscribe! Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and reviews help us as well. Finally, if you have questions or comments, hit up the forums or send an email to dbrpodcast@gmail.com!

[dukelifer]

The NCAA announced Wednesday the new start date for the 2020-2021 college basketball season, and we jump on to react to it all on Episode 232! The new season will start on November 25th, and we discuss what that means for the early season games that we come to expect. How many games can the Duke Blue Devils play? How many non-conference games are mandated? How will these games happen? We discuss it all!

After the break, we bring back Parting Shots, with more discussion on the NCAA’s college basketball announcement, we give Coach David Cutcliffe his flowers on his 66th birthday, and we quickly discuss Jayson Tatum making 3rd team All-NBA and somehow getting snubbed in the process.

We’re bringing the content quick and in buckets right now, so as the football season progresses and we advance towards the start of the basketball season, there’s no better time to subscribe! Find us wherever you get your podcasts, and reviews help us as well. Finally, if you have questions or comments, hit up the forums or send an email to dbrpodcast@gmail.com!

Will be so strange. The students are all gone from Nov 24 - Jan 20 assuming all goes as planned. Just hard to imagine Duke games without fans. Won’t be the same.

[JasonEvans]

Will be so strange. The students are all gone from Nov 24 - Jan 20 assuming all goes as planned. Just hard to imagine Duke games without fans. Won’t be the same.

Anyone who tells you they know how things will be come November is lying to you. I could see rapid testing being really prevalent by then and perhaps that would allow some kind of safe attendance at sporting events.

But, what matters the most for Duke is televising the games. I know the crowd is a huge part of the Duke experience, but those TV dollars are what drives the Duke athletic department budget.

[flyingdutchdevil]

Will be so strange. The students are all gone from Nov 24 - Jan 20 assuming all goes as planned. Just hard to imagine Duke games without fans. Won’t be the same.

Would you rather have no basketball? Cus that's the other option...

[JasonEvans]

The MAAC already has a schedule plan in place for the upcoming season. Not sure the ACC will do the same kind of thing. I suspect the ACC will try to get all the non-conference games played between TGiving and XMas and then play a conference-only schedule in a bubble starting in mid-January. Anyway, here is the MAAC plan...

[brevity]

Anyone who tells you they know how things will be come November is lying to you.

Then why does DBR even have a Presidential Election thread? All those pollsters are lying to us!

[lmb]

Will be so strange. The students are all gone from Nov 24 - Jan 20 assuming all goes as planned. Just hard to imagine Duke games without fans. Won’t be the same.

Duke is always quite creative in marketing, social media, video production, etc. Anybody have thoughts on what they'll do in Cameron to try to create some atmosphere? It seems wrong to pipe in crowd noise, especially since that's always been something Duke fans made fun of UNC for. Of course, the reasons to do it now are completely different. They should involve the Crazies somehow.