The 2019-22 Duke Basketball season will officially begin at 7:00pm EST on Tuesday, November 5.
ESPN announced the times for the 2019 State Farm Champions Classic and the Duke Blue Devils and Kansas Jayhawks will be taking the court at Madison Square Garden in the early window.
The Kentucky Wildcats and Michigan State Spartans will take the floor at approximately 9:30pm EST.
All four teams are expected to be in the Top-5 of the Associated Press Top-25 poll when it is released.
Duke is coming off a season in which it lost to the Spartans in the Elite Eight by one point but will not return its top three leading scorers in Zion Williamson, R.