DURHAM, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Streaming provider Prime Video is diving into college sports by partnering with one of college basketball’s biggest brands: Duke.<\/p>\n
Amazon and Duke announced Thursday that they had reached a multiyear agreement to broadcast three of the Blue Devils’ neutral-site nonconference matchups per season. This is the first college partnership for Prime Video, which has aired NFL and NBA games among other sports.<\/p>\n
This fall’s broadcasts include a Nov. 25 matchup between Duke and UConn in Las Vegas, a\u00a0rematch of the Huskies’ comeback from 19 down<\/a>\u00a0to win on a last-second shot in the NCAA Elite Eight. Next is a Dec. 21 matchup against\u00a0reigning NCAA champion Michigan<\/a>\u00a0in New York’s Madison Square Garden. Finally, Duke will face Gonzaga on Feb. 20 in Detroit.<\/p>\n \u201cDuke basketball games transcend the schedule,” said Charlie Neiman, Prime Video’s head of sports partnerships, “and the creation of this all-new offering gives fans more of what we all want, marquee matchups featuring the most successful programs in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n In its release, Duke said the Blue Devils have also agreed to participate in additional events owned and operated by ESPN across the 2027-28 and 2028-29 seasons \u201cin exchange for the flexibility\u201d to schedule the Prime Video events. Those come as part of ESPN’s partnership with Duke’s Atlantic Coast Conference home.<\/p>\n In a statement, Duke athletic director Nina King said the deal \u201cexpands the global reach\u201d for the program that has won five NCAA championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DURHAM, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Streaming provider Prime Video is diving into college sports by partnering with one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[5125,1970,2097,7,319,217,666,1773,66,2658],"class_list":["post-723865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-app-college-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-basketball","tag-college","tag-college-basketball","tag-duke","tag-north-carolina","tag-sports","tag-television"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116505748645861393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}