Duke and Michigan have reportedly canceled their Dec. 21 game, which was set to be broadcast on Amazon Prime Video.
The matchup was originally scheduled to take place at Madison Square Garden as part of a three-game package Duke had struck with Amazon with the backing of the ACC’s primary rights partner, ESPN. But shortly after the matchup was first announced, Yahoo Sports reported that the Big Ten and Fox were disputing that the ACC possessed the rights to the game, which would have taken place in the conference’s footprint in New York.
Notably, ESPN had broadcasted Duke’s 68–63 win over Michigan during the 2025–26 season, which took place in another shared territory in Washington, D.C. This led the Big Ten to argue it held the rights to this year’s neutral-site game, and not Amazon, due to a rights-holder deal between the conferences that agreed to alternate the broadcast rights of such games.
The Big Ten’s stance led the teams to look to play the game elsewhere, with discussions focusing on loanDepot Park in Miami. Then-Michigan head coach Dusty May had developed a relationship with Marlins owner Bruce Sherman during his time as the head coach at FAU, but left Ann Arbor to become the Mavericks’ head coach in June.
