When it became clear that Cleveland State had been ransacked by Covid and that the Vikings wouldn’t be in Cameron Saturday, a lot of teams wanted to pick that slot up. San Jose State (we think) posted an appeal on line. People were pushing Iona in the Garden. Maryland fans got on their eternal hobby horse, thinking maybe now Duke might schedule them.
Spoiler alert: Duke is highly unlikely to ever schedule Maryland again and even if it happened, it’s not like Danny Manning had huge success against Duke when he was at Wake Forest.
Ultimately Duke worked out a quickie (well, got a better term?