Auburn vs. Duke FREE LIVE STREAM (12/4/24): How to watch men’s college basketball, time and TV channel

No. 2 Auburn will face No. 9 Duke in a men’s college basketball game on Wednesday, December 4, 2024 (12/04/24) at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, North Carolina.

How to watch: Fans can watch the game for free through a trial of DirecTV Stream or fuboTV.

Here’s what you need to know:

What: College men’s basketball game

WHO: Duke vs. Auburn

When: Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Where: Cameron Indoor Stadium

Time: 9:15 p.m. ET

TV: ESPN

Live stream: DirecTV Stream or fuboTV

Here’s a recent college basketball story from the AP:

Kansas held off Auburn for the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll on Monday, as Southeastern Conference teams clinched three of the top four spots and two-time reigning national champion UConn came close after going 0-3 completely eliminated week at the Maui Invitational.

The Jayhawks received 35 of 61 first-place votes in the poll, while the Tigers got the remaining 26 and climbed two spots to No. 2 after winning the Maui title. The Huskies fell as low as No. 25, barely managing to become the second team in nearly four decades to move from No. 2 to an unranked spot in a week.

It was part of a whirlwind week of holiday week tournaments that resulted in six new teams being added to the rankings, led by No. 12 Oregon and No. 16 Memphis.

Kansas (7-0), which beat Duke last week, had increased its lead over the second-place team every week since the preseason poll and held a 107-point lead over the Huskies last week. But with the Tigers – ranked No. 1 in KenPom’s stats – beating Iowa State and North Carolina in the title game in Maui, that margin is just nine points this week.

Auburn was joined by fellow SEC schools No. 3 Tennessee and No. 4 Kentucky, with each team moving up four spots. Marquette was next at No. 5, followed by Iowa State, Gonzaga, Purdue, Duke and Alabama rounding out the top 10.

UConn’s slide

The Huskies (5-3) had won 17 straight games at the Maui Invitational, but things quickly went south when they lost in overtime to Memphis in the opening round, in a game that left coach Dan Hurley annoyed with the officiating . UConn lost to Colorado the next day and then to Dayton in the seventh-place game, finishing last in the prestigious tournament.

It was reminiscent of No. 2 Arizona’s 3-0 fall at the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas in November 2017. But the Huskies avoided the same poll fate as the Wildcats, becoming the first team to move from No. 2 to an unranked spot week since Louisville in November 1986 after the tournament flop in the Great Alaska Shootout.

Rising and falling

While Oregon rose 26 spots to enter the AP Top 25, Marquette, Purdue and Florida (No. 13) posted the biggest gains of the week in the poll, each rising five spots. No. 11 Wisconsin joined Tennessee and Kentucky with a four-spot lead, while 10 teams moved up from their spots in last week’s poll.

In total, seven teams were eliminated from last week’s poll.

While UConn’s fall stood out, No. 17 Houston fell 11 spots after losses to Alabama and now No. 17-24 San Diego State at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.

North Carolina also posted a sharp decline, slipping eight spots to No. 20 after losses to Auburn and Michigan State in Maui. Gonzaga fell four spots to seventh place after losing its Battle 4 Atlantis opener to West Virginia.

status quo

No. 23 Mississippi is the only team other than Kansas that was able to hold on to its spot from last week.

Welcome

Oregon led the week’s six new teams after defeating Alabama to win the Players Era Festival championship, followed by Memphis, which finished second to Auburn in Maui.

No. 18 Pittsburgh, No. 19 Illinois, No. 21 Oklahoma – which won the Atlantis title – and San Diego State were the week’s other additions.

Farewell (for now)

Indiana (No. 14), Arkansas (No. 19), Creighton (No. 21), Xavier (No. 22), Arizona (No. 24) and Mississippi State (No. 25) dropped out of the poll.

Conference clock

The SEC led all conferences with eight ranked teams, followed by the Big 12 with five. The Big Ten and Atlantic Coast Conference each had three ranked teams, while the West Coast, American Athletic and Mountain West Conference each had one.