The North Carolina-Duke competition refers to competition between University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Tar Heels (Carolina) and Duke University Blue Devils (Duke). It most often refers to the athletic competition between the athletic teams of Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels. The fierce North Carolina-Duke rivalry, especially in male college basketball. It is considered one of the most intense rivalries in all US sports: a poll conducted by ESPN in 2000 put basketball competition as the third largest competition in North America, and Sports Illustrated on Campus named it # 1 "Hottest Rivalry" in college basketball and competition # 2 as a whole in the November 18, 2003 edition. The intensity of competition coupled with the proximity of the two universities - they are located only ten miles apart along US Highway 15-501 (also known as Tobacco Road) or eight miles apart in a straight line distance. In addition, both Duke and North Carolina are considered to be very prestigious universities, which, coupled with their very different funding structures and cultures - North Carolina is Duke's private temporary public school - contributes to the ferocity of competition. A funny anecdote recently reported on ESPN cites one Duke fan for having won many major tournaments in 2016 because he chose UNC as the National Champion; but the fan then goes on to say "It's not worth it".
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Duke and North Carolina fought for the first time on 24 January 1920. Both teams have met at least twice a year since then. The game often determines the champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC); since the establishment of the ACC in 1953, Duke and North Carolina have joined to win or share 49 regular season ACC titles (77.7% of the total) and 38 tournament titles (59.4% of total), including 14 from 15 from 1996 until 2011. The last regular season matches for both schools took turns between Chapel Hill and Durham and have been played at Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1940 and Dean E. Smith Center since 1986.
Just like the Alabama-Auburn football competition, the North Carolina-Duke rivalry is the most intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite basketball teams for nearly 30 years. Both schools are also the two most winning programs in the history of the NCAA boy basketball; North Carolina is # 3 on the list of all-time winning programs in Division I Men's Basketball and Duke # 4. Duke has won five NCAA championships and has featured in sixteen Final Fours, while North Carolina has won six NCAA championships and appeared in a record of twenty Final Fours. In addition, North Carolina also retroactively won the national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1942 for their unbeaten season in 1924.
Combining for ten national championships over the last 36 years, Duke and North Carolina have won 28% of the national championships, or more than one every four years. Over the past 18 years, one of the two teams has become the # 1 AP pre-season ranking team in the country 8 times (44% of the time). Since 1977-78, Duke or North Carolina have been at the pre-season peak of three times 28 (70%). More than the entire AP poll (last 69 years), the team has been above pre-season four to 69% of the time. Over the same period, a person has become # 1 18 times, making it almost 3 out of 10 chances that Duke or North Carolina started the year at # 1 in the last 50 years.
History
Although both schools always had great emotions born of intimacy and closeness, some of the earliest roots of modern basketball competition took place in the early 1960s when Duke and national stars later this year Art Heyman fought in court. with North Carolina's Larry Brown resulting in a suspension for both players. The competition reached unprecedented heights in the mid-1980s under head coach Dean Smith of North Carolina and Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, thanks to the emergence of cable channels such as ESPN and increased coverage of ACC in national broadcasts by three major networks, providing more opportunities to the national audience to watch both their teams and their coaches. Indeed, both teams have been positioned on national television since the early 1980s, and their last regular season clash has been broadcast nationwide for most of the past 30 years.
When Smith retired after the 1997 season, he held the record of most wins by the men's NCAA Division I head coach, with 879 victories against just 254 losses. In 1982, with players Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins and James Worthy, he won his first national championship and second overall for the UNC that year. In 1991, Duke won his first national championship and then with most of his team again won another national championship in 1992.
North Carolina then won the championship the following year in 1993. Since then, Duke won the national championships in 2001, 2010 and 2015 while North Carolina won the national championships in 2005, 2009, and 2017. In 2011, Krzyzewski became the new holder of the record for most of the career victories by DI male coaches, surpassed his mentor Bob Knight (who had surpassed Smith in 2007). On January 25, 2015, Krzyzewski also became the first head coach of the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball to clinch 1,000 career victories after Duke defeated St Johns at Madison Square Garden 77-68.
After Smith retired in 1997, North Carolina suffered through three coaching changes (from Dean Smith to Bill Guthridge to Matt Doherty to Roy Williams) between 1997 and 2003. Six seasons between Bill Guthridge and Matt Doherty from 1997 to 2003 Duke won 13 from 17 games against North Carolina and some say that the competition is down. However, with the arrival of North Carolina alumni Roy Williams as head coach in 2003, North Carolina won six regular season titles in seven years (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012), winning the ACC tournament in previous years. in 2007 and 2008 and won the fifth, fifth and sixth NCAA championships respectively in 2005, 2009, and 2017. North Carolina also won 6 of 8 games against Duke from 2005 to 2009. Erik Spanberg of Christian Science Monitor even stated in 2008 that the competition has been leaning towards North Carolina in recent years. However, since 2009 and on March 11, 2017, the Duke has won 13 of the last 18 games against North Carolina including 3 times sweeping North Carolina in 2010, 2013 and 2015 and the Duke has won 2 national championships since then in 2010 and 2015. During 2009-2010 season, Duke won the regular season finals with 32 points, which is the second largest Duke victory in the series history.
After that match, Duke went on to win the fourth national title in 2010.
Former editor and writer Esquire (and North Carolina graduate) Will Blythe argues that competition passions can be attributed to class and culture in the South.
Competition has become the subject of various books and articles, including Blythe and Blue Blood by Art Chansky.
Further illustrating the intensity of the competition, US Representative Brad Miller, a big fan of Carolina, told an Associated Press writer in 2012, "I have said very openly that if Duke plays against the Taliban, then I must appeal to the Taliban."
NCAA Tournament/Post NIT
The two teams have never met at the NCAA Tournament, although they never met once in the 1971 National Invitation Tournament, with North Carolina winning 73-67 in the semi-finals at Madison Square Garden.
In 1991, the teams came in one game to play each other for the national championship, as both advanced to the Final Four that year at Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Chansky writes in Blue Blood that Carolina fans shout "0-for-4!" in Duke's fans, while Duke responded with "Old, no look!" In the first semi-final, North Carolina was furiously 79-73 by a Kansas team coached by Roy Williams, who would then return to Chapel Hill to take on the head coach's job. Some Duke fans had already arrived for their team matches when Dean Smith was expelled for arguing with officials, and Chansky wrote that they were happy when they came out, waving their hands and shouting, "See you later!" as they used to do to Cameron for players or coaches issued or in dirty matters.
Below, in the Duke dressing room, Blue Devils is preparing for a rematch of the 1990 title game with UNLV in their semi-final. UNLV has won the game with 30 points and came unbeaten in 1991, with many wondering if they're the best college basketball team ever. When the Carolina-Kansas news was finished, Mike Krzyzewski asked the team if they felt it was okay to lose because it meant they would not do anything worse than Tar Heels, and some nodded. Krzyzewski understands but then adds, "Throw in. Let's kick their ass." The Duke then shocked the sporting world by beating UNLV 79-77 and then getting better by beating Kansas 72-65 in a championship game to win its first national title. Chansky wrote that one of UNC's athletic department staff at Indianapolis was very confused that he did not leave his hotel room the day after the national championship game, while when the Duke arrived back in Durham, Krzyzewski was said to have asked the team at the turn to the Chapel. Hill if the team wants to explore Franklin Street. Behind the Final Four, when talking about how close the two rivals came to meet for the national championship, Krzyzewski said that he never wanted to see it happen because regardless of who wins, the pain of losing that game would be unbearable for a losing school and his fans.
Impressive games and incidents
March 2, 1968: # 10 Duke 87, # 3 North Carolina 86 (3OT)
Duke defeated North Carolina 87-86 in three hours overtime at Duke Indoor Stadium (later renamed the Cameron Indoor Stadium) when rarely used Duke junior Fred Lind erupted for 16 points, 9 rebounds, and 3 blocks after only scoring 21 points total across his career. When Mike Lewis's central Duke All-American took his third offense in the first round (and Warren Chapman, his reserve, suffered a knee injury), Duke coach Vic Bubas asked Lind to fill the void against UNC's tops Rusty Clark and Bill Bunting. Lewis back in the second half, but fouled (four Blue Devils and one Tar Heel fouled the game) with about five minutes left in the rules when Duke went down five minutes, and Lind returned to court. Lind went on to carry the Blue Devils in three overtimes, blocking North Carolina's shot attempt at the end of the regulation, making two free throws at the end of his first overtime, and dropping a 15-foot jumper on the bell to send him into a third overtime. At the end of the game, the students take Lind to the Duke's main quad.
March 2, 1974: # 4 North Carolina 96, Duke 92 (OT)
8 Pts in 17 Seconds. Duke leads UNC 86-78 with 17 seconds left. Despite the deficit and despite the fact that the game took place before the execution of a three-point shot, Carolina rallied with a pair of free throws by Bobby Jones, then a basket by John Kuester and Jones after stealing by Walter Davis and Turnover on an inbounds effort. After Duke Pete Kramer lost the front end one-on-one, UNC tied the score on a 30-foot Davis bank shot as time expired. The match ended with an extension of time, in which the UNC won, 96-92. To this day, many consider this comeback as the largest in college basketball history.
January 3, 1975: Duke 99, # 8 North Carolina 96 (OT)
In the Big Four Tournament match between North Carolina and Duke, the two teams played a saw-saw game until the Duke 10-0 run in the second half made the score 64-56. North Carolina finally tied the score at 70-70 with four minutes left. The Duke climbed back with four with 1:41 to go, but the driving layup by Phil Ford with eight seconds to go in regulation tied the score at 82 and extended the game for extra time. The Blue Devils got a quick basket from Kevin Billerman and Bob Fleischer to open overtime but Tar Heels answered and eventually led, 89-88, on two free throws Ford in two minutes. The Duke replied with four straight points and North Carolina came back to tie the score at 92, and then Tate Armstrong converted the three-point game to put the Blue Devils forward for good. The team combined for eight points in the last 20 seconds of the game, but Duke's free throw kick gave them a 99-96 victory. Fleischer led the Duke with 26 points and Phil Ford scored 22 for North Carolina.
February 24, 1979: # 6 Duke 47, # 4 North Carolina 40
Jim Spanarkel's Senior Day Games turned into one of the most bizarre afternoons in the history of ACC basketball as Duke held off Carolina's half goalless before dropping No. 4-ranked Tar Heels 47-40. Dean Smith committed a four-pronged offense and Tar Heels held off the ball throughout the first half, but Duke led 7-0 as Spanarkel forced two turnovers, assisted on a basket for Mike Gminski and scored the final bucket of half on the short jumper. (Smith then said, "It's supposed to be 2-0, or something like that, in half.") Only two shots of Carolina in the first half were the air ball, which produced the first song "Air Ball".... Air ball! "from Cameron Crazies.Spanarkel added 15 points in the second half and finished with a 17-ball high, hitting 8-of-9 field-goal efforts.These wins allowed Duke to tie North Carolina to the regular season ACC title.
Duke coach Bill Foster was not happy with Smith's tactics in the first half and the next day said, "I've been doing this for a long time, but during the first half last night I started thinking maybe I've been doing it for a long time." He then added this famous excavation: "I think Naismith created the basketball, not Deansmith."
December 5, 1980: # 10 North Carolina 78, Duke 76
Carolina led by as many as 11 in the first half of the Big Four Tournament contest before the Duke trimmed the lead five in the first half. Carolina played most of the second half when Al Wood and Sam Perkins got dirty trouble; Perkins will foul 7:55 to go. James Worthy did his best to pick up the slack, leading Tar Heels on 26 points and hitting eight straight shots at one point in the second half. Nevertheless, Gene Bank was able to give Duke only a second lead of the game, 73-71, with 2:36 left. Carolina returns to tie it on 76. Future Tar head coach Heel Matt Doherty, a student at the time, then fouled, and struck a free throw with the rest to deliver a 12-second winning margin. Jimmy Braddock's free throw in the final seconds gave Carolina a 78-76 victory.
February 28, 1981: Duke 66, # 11 North Carolina 65 (OT)
Duke struggled in his first season under Coach Mike Krzyzewski, going 17-13 overall and 6-8 at ACC. However, the end of Blue Devils' regular season is one to keep in mind. On Senior Night, Duke's Gene Banks wears a tuxedo and throws roses into the crowd at Cameron Indoor Stadium before the game. Carolina controlled the game early, then went scoreless for four minutes of second-half stretch to allow Duke to take the lead at the end of the 46-45 rule. The Tar Heels fought back for a 50-49 rally, and teams traded the basket until two free throws of Sam Perkins gave Carolina a 58-56 lead with two seconds to play. Duke goes into midcourt and calls time with one second left. Banks take inbounds pass and nail jumper in bell to force overtime. The Blue Devils led 62-59 early in the extra session, but Carolina rallied to take a 65-64 lead on the power of Al Wood's jumper and two free throws by Mike Pepper. Duke Vince Taylor failed on a short jumper, but Banks rebounded and deflected the match-winner home with 19 seconds left. Banks led the Duke with 25 points, while Perkins scored 24 for Carolina. Perkins also has 10 assists.
March 3, 1984: # 1 North Carolina 96, Duke 83 (2OT)
The last home game for Matt Doherty, Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins is impressive for Tar Heels fans. Carolina seemed to be finished when Duke Mark Alarie converted the game three points with 20 seconds to go in the rules and Tar Heels missed the jumper that would tie the game. However, after the Blue Devils missed the front end one-on-one, Matt Doherty took inbounds past the field and hit 15 feet with one second left to force overtime. The teams traded the basket during the first overtime and headed for a second extra session tied at 79. Michael Jordan opened the second overtime with allies and free throws, but Johnny Dawkins cut North Carolina's lead to 82-81 with a short jumper. Duke will only get one more basket when Jordan and Sam Perkins bring the Tar Heels to the final 96-83, and Carolina becomes the first ACC team in 10 years to unbeaten in the conference game (14-0). Alarie led all the scorers with 28 points, while Jordan topped Carolina with 25 points.
March 10, 1984: # 16 Duke 77, # 1 North Carolina 75
After losing two close matches to Carolina in the regular season, the Duke finally upset the Tar Heels in the ACC semi-finals of the tournament. Johnny Dawkins and Tommy Amaker led the Blue Devils to a 40-32 first-half lead. Nevertheless, Carolina went on 12-2 to open the second half, tying the score in 44 in the game that closes the rest of the way. David Henderson hit four free throws to make Duke excelled, but Michael Jordan closed the gap to 77-75. Carolina regained the ball with three seconds remaining in the game, but the return offer of the Tar Heels ended with Matt Doherty's drowsy inability. Jordan led all the scorers with 22 points, while Doherty scored 20 and grabbed 10 rebounds.
January 18, 1986: # 1 North Carolina 95, # 3 Duke 92
The number 1 ranked Tar Heels opened the new Dean Smith Center against the 3rd ranked Blue Devils with the winner likely to be the number 1 ranking team in the country. In one of the closet games in the competition, North Carolina survived the late Blue Devil rally to win 95-92.
January 21, 1988: # 9 Duke 70, # 2 North Carolina 69
Duke opened the game with a 11-2 run and eventually led 29-15, but Carolina slashed the lead three before the Blue Devils led 44-39 in the first half. Carolina still lags 55-44 with a time of 12:53 left when J.R. Reid took over the game. Reid scored 14 of Carolina's last 16 points to help Tar Heels tie the score on 69 by 1:24 to go. A Danny Ferry free throw with 52 seconds left gave Duke a margin of victory, but not before Carolina forced a turnover and failed to convert on four field goals in the last 30 seconds. Kevin Strickland scored 22 points and Ferry added 19 points for Duke, while Reid dropped in 27 for the Tar Heels. This will be the first of three Duke wins in the Carolina sweeping season in 1988, including the ACC Tournament.
March 12, 1989: # 9 North Carolina 77, # 7 Duke 74
In one of the most intense games in the history of the competition, Carolina defeated Duke 77-74 in the ACC Tournament final at Omni in Atlanta to secure the first ACC Tournament title in seven seasons. The team has divided two regular season meetings; Carolina beat the top-ranked and then undefeated Duke 91-71 at Cameron in January (a famous match for "not Reid" featured by some Duke fans) then Duke rewarded at Chapel Hill at the end of the season, tapping off Carolina 88-86. The tension between coach Dean Smith and Mike Krzyzewski boiled during the Tournament week, derived from Reid's sign at Durham in January, and as the two teams meet in the conference championship, the game has developed a battleground atmosphere of heavyweights. Carolina led many matches, including a 39-35 lead in the first half, but could never withdraw. Carolina J.R. Reid, however, defeated the Duke Naismith Award-finalist and ACC MVP Tournament Danny Ferry. This game witnessed 49 tremendous violations called between two squads, and Carolina won, but only when the 3/4 Ferry court shot sounded when the time was over.
February 5, 1992: # 9 North Carolina 75, # 1 Duke 73
In a rough game between Blue Devils and Tar Heels featuring blood and broken bones, the Duke used an early 9-0 to lead 16-11 with 12:55 to go in the first half. Hubert Davis's three-point game closed Carolina's run to give Tar Heels a 20-19 advantage. The team exchanged 10 times before the Thomas Hill baseline jumper gave the Blue Devils a 39-38 advantage in the first half. The Tar Heels opened the second half with a 10-0 spike, but then saw his attack go missing. Duke went five minutes before scoring a second-half basket but struggled back with a difficult defense, keeping Carolina scoreless field for the final 9Ã,½ minutes of the game. Carolina hit 12 of 14 free throws during the stretch; including two by Derrick Phelps with 44.5 seconds remaining to give the Tar Heels a 75-73 lead. Christian Laettner had two shots to equalize in the last 24 seconds, but missed both. However, the eternal image of the game is Carolina Eric Montross who takes some rough elbows to his face and looks more like a boxer than a center as he sinks the final two free throws with blood running down his face. Bobby Hurley broke his leg during the game, but continued to play. Brian Davis led the Duke with 16 points, while Davis scored 16 for Carolina.
February 2, 1995: # 2 North Carolina 102, Duke 100 (2OT)
With Mike Krzyzewski leaving on leave for the year, the Blue Devils suffered through their worst season in more than a decade. They looked unmarked on the pitch of their home from the opening tip, trailing behind 26-9 in the first half, highlighted by alley-oops by Carolina Rasheed Wallace and an upside-down jam by Jerry Stackhouse over two Blue Devils. However, the Duke rallied in the second half and led by as many as 12, before North Carolina held its own rally. Both teams exchanged directives four times at the end of the rule before heading to overtime. With three seconds left in the first overtime, Carolina leads 95-92 and sends Serge Zwikker to the line of offense with a chance to freeze the game for the well-liked Tar Heels. However, Zwikker missed two free throws, setting Duke Jeff Capel to run, a 37-foot heave that tied the game when the bell rang, sending Cameron into a state of euphoria. With the game still tied at the end of the second overtime, Donald Williams scored for Heels and Jeff McInnis stole inbounds pass for an easy layup, putting Carolina up 102-98. The Dukes respond with their own baskets and after stopping the Tar Heel, have a chance to force a third overtime or win the game straight away. Nevertheless, jumper Steve Wojciechowski and Greg Newton's pullback pulled nothing but the air, keeping Carolina's victory 102-100.
January 31, 1996: # 8 North Carolina 73, Duke 72
Duke took a 42-30 advantage into the dressing room at half-time, and led 37-20 over the Carolina with less than five minutes to go in the first half. Carolina managed to close the gap to 44-42 with 14:14 remaining in the game, but the Blue Devils stretched the lead back to 11 with 8:44 left. The Tar Heels fought back and pulled in one behind scoring from six different players over the next few minutes. Steve Wojciechowski scored a three-point throw to give the Duke a 72-68 advantage with 1:13 to advance. Shammond Williams responded with three to cut the Duke's lead for one with 58 seconds remaining, and Carolina forced a turnover on subsequent inbounds pass. Jeff McInnis drove the lane and fed Serge Zwikker, whose shot was blocked by Greg Newton, but Dante Calabria was there to tip and lead 73-72 Carolina. Duke's Ricky Price can not connect with the jumper in the buzzer, and Tar Heels runs away.
February 28, 1998: # 1 Duke 77, # 3 North Carolina 75
Just two months removed from the most assumed broken leg would have ruled out him for the season, Duke freshman Elton Brand rallied the Blue Devils from a 64-47 second-half deficit with 12 minutes left to a 77-75 victory over Carolina. The win earned Duke regular season ACC and coach Mike Krzyzewski his 500th win in the most memorable game of the college season. Duke tied the game at 75 on the floater strike by sophomore Chris Carrawell with 2:00 remaining and took the lead for the first time on a driving basket by Roshown McLeod a minute later as Carolina's offense fell to a series of turnovers and a wrong shot. Both point guard Ed Cota and new center Brendan Haywood had the chance to tie the game from the free-throw line in fading seconds, but both missed the first two free throws, and the Tar Heels could not turn a deliberate mistake on the second attempt into points.
February 3, 2000: # 3 Duke 90, North Carolina 86 (OT)
The Tar Heels did not get a red card entry into the game for the first time since 1990. Shane Battier scored 14 points the first half for Duke and Carolina reversing the ball over 14 times to give the Blue Devils a 17-point advantage at halftime. Duke eventually led 19 points early in the second half. Carolina then reverses the stretch, scoring on 19 of the 22 final possession, including a three-pointer by Joseph Forte with 5.2 seconds left to send the game into an extra period at 73. The Blue Devils scored on their first six possessions in overtime and got seven points from Carlos Boozer in extra framework to maintain a 90-86 win.
February 4, 2004: # 1 Duke 83, # 17 North Carolina 81 (OT)
In the first match of the Carolina-Duke competition that pitched Mike Krzyzewski against new UNC head coach Roy Williams, reverse layup Chris Duhon with 6.5 seconds remaining in extra-time gave the 16th straight victory for his team and a fifth win in six years on the grounds of Carolina's home.. Duke turned up the defense at the end of the rule and went on 10-0, taking a 72-69 lead on two free throws by Luol Deng with 1:06 remaining. Sean May scored on the rebound with 53 seconds to go, but J.J. Redick returned a three-point lead on the drive with 38 seconds remaining. After Carolina's timeout, Jawad Williams made a three-pointer with 18 seconds to go and Daniel Ewing missed a potential winner of the match for Duke with 3 seconds left. In extra-time, Shelden Williams had two blocks and his defense forced Carolina to break a 35-second shot with 22 seconds left. Redick then made two free throws to make it 81-78 and Rashad McCants drilled three matches that set the stage for Duhon's heroics.
March 6, 2005: # 2 North Carolina 75, # 6 Duke 73
On Senior Day at Chapel Hill, before the biggest crowd to see college matches on campus in the state of North Carolina (22.125), Tar Heels had a chance to win their first regular ACC season title since 1993. However, they trailed the Duke 73-64 with 3:07 left after Duke Lee Melchionni made 3 offensive rebounds and subsequent retaliation by Carolina Jawad Williams and Marvin Williams, the latter formed by the Duke's turn, cut off the fifth lead with two minutes to go. Duke DeMarcus Nelson then missed the front end one on one. Sean May then bounced back on his own, and fouled back; he struck a free throw to make 73-71 with the remaining 1:44. Missed by Melchionni and J.J. Redick gave the ball back to the Tar Heels, but Duke Shelden Williams came up with a big block to regain ownership for the Blue Devils with less than a minute to go. Duke inbounded the ball and seemed to move quickly up the court, but Carolina David Noel chased after Daniel Ewing from behind and knocked the ball before he could get a pass. Raymond Felton came up with the loose ball in the scrum and asked for time, arranging game ownership for Tar Heels - an equally frightening scenario with the game a month earlier at Cameron Indoor Stadium. This time, he brought the ball into the ring and got the error with 19.4 seconds left. Felton hit the first, but skipped the second. However, he redeemed himself for his failure at Cameron, and managed to tip Marvin Williams, who took it straight back, violated with 17 seconds remaining and deflected it, giving Tar Heels the edge and blowing the roof of the Smith Center in the process. The free throw makes it 75-73; Duke calls time to organize one last game. Duke's sniper, Redick, got the ball, but his 3-rim rings with 6.7 seconds left. Ewing's hopeless jumper with 4 seconds left is an air ball; Can grab a rebound to run out of time and seal a comeback victory 75-73.
March 4, 2006: # 13 North Carolina 83, # 1 Duke 76
Coming to game # 1 in both polls, Duke hosted a senior night, honoring the Best National Player of the Year and ACC's all-time leading scorer J.J. Redick and twice Defensive National Player of the Year Shelden Williams. North Carolina, the defending national champions, had lost all the core of the team that won it all the previous year, but got into the game on a 7-match winning streak. Freshman Tyler Hansbrough and Danny Green lead the Carolina as well as veterans Reyshawn Terry and David Noel. ESPN broadcasts games on all three channels as part of the first coverage of the ESPN Full Circle , which shows the game's previous marathon a few hours before giving information. Duke led an early 13-2 when Redick fired and shot his first five shots. The Tar Heels fight, cutting the deficit into one with halftime. The Tar Heels stormed out for a 72-62 lead as Hansbrough and Terry started hitting their shot in the second half. After the deadline, Duke hook Williams pulled the Duke back in the eighth, but Hansbrough recovered a 25-foot loose ball from the ring which was answered with a three-pointer to beat the clock shot. DeMarcus Nelson then pressed 3-pointers on 3 consecutive possessions to put the Devil back into 3 with the remaining 1:31. However, it's as close as it will be. The Heels hit their free throw in the stretch, Redick losing 15 of his last 16 shots, and DeMarcus Nelson fired an aerial ball which resulted in a shot clock violation that prevented the Duke rally late, leading to a final score of 83-76. This game was watched by 3.78 million households on ESPN and ESPN2.
March 4, 2007: # 8 North Carolina 86, # 14 Duke 72
Carolina defeated Duke at Dean Smith Center 86-72, finishing the season sweeping the Blue Devils. The most impressive part of the game was an aggressive breach by Gerald Henderson when his elbow contacted Tyler Hansbrough's nose on a hard effort with 14.5 seconds on the clock and the outcome of the game was clearly defined. The contact broke Hansbrough's nose, drawing blood. Officials accused Henderson of aggressive offenses and expelled him from the match. After the offense, Hansbrough jumped with blood flowing from his nose, but was soothed by his teammate, Dewey Burke, before heading to the locker room for medical treatment. Since then, both Hansbrough and Henderson have stated the violation was unintentional. To protect his broken nose, Hansbrough wore a face mask throughout the ACC tournament, and to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
February 8, 2012: # 9 Duke 85, # 5 North Carolina 84
UNC led 10 points or more for most of the second half and took the lead with 10 points until 2:09 when Duke Tyler Thornton hit a 3 point shot quickly followed by 3 others by Seth Curry to seal the 4th margin. With just 14 seconds left inside game, Tyler Zeller accidentally drove the ball into the Duke basket on a 3-point Duke shot by Ryan Kelly. Duke was awarded 2 points in the end by Zeller leaving Carolina with a 1 point lead. Duke Tyler Thornton fouled Zeller who made his first shot but failed to leave Carolina with a 2 point advantage. The Duke took the ball into the field following a defensive rebound from Zeller's free throw and Duke's guard Austin Rivers struck a 3rd win in stoppage time. Rivers completed the game with a career high of 29 points, including six three-point throws.
Rameses, UNC instantly famous mascot, died the next day. Ann Leonard, the owner of Rameses, said the 8-year-old ram died peacefully, most likely due to old age.
February 18, 2015: # 4 Duke 92, # 15 North Carolina 90 (OT)
Entering the match at Cameron Indoor Duke Stadium by passing North Carolina legendary coach Dean Smith a few days earlier, both Duke and UNC coaches, players and staff all gathered in midfield and silent for Smith. After the game started, Duke jumped out of the gate with an 18-6 advantage early in the game thanks to a hot shot. UNC will respond by beating Duke 30-22 for the next few minutes in the first half to cut Duke's lead to 40-36 with about 4 minutes remaining in the first half. The Duke then went on with 9-0 for the next 2 minutes to get their biggest advantage in the match at 49-36 with 2 minutes remaining in the half. The UNC will score the last 6 points of the half to cut the Duke's lead to 49-42 in the first half. In the second half almost everything went by the way the UNC began to dominate the post and eventually built their biggest advantage of the 77-67 game over Duke with 4 minutes left in the rules to complete 41-18 runs over Duke in the 18-minute span. With Duke still trailing UNC 79-72 with about 2 1/2 minutes left in Duke rule Tyus Jones will help Duke complete the rules on 9-2 run over UNC to tie the game at 81 points each to send him overtime. In extra-time, the game is filled with free throws, missed shots, fouls, turnover, lead changes and ties with Duke who eventually won the 92-90 game.
March 4, 2017: # 5 North Carolina 90, # 17 Duke 83
On a senior night at Chapel Hill, UNC has locked the number one seed on the ACC by losing Louisville to Notre Dame, but Duke still has to win to clinch a double-bye in the ACC Tournament. Joel Berry II, who came from the bench so seniors can start, and Luke Kennard leads the way for each team and will score 28 points each. Berry made each of five three-point trials in the first half to complement Isaiah Hicks's success in the post for UNC, while Duke Kennard, Grayson Allen, and Jayson Tatum enjoyed success from outside the bow, including bank shots for Kennard and four points for Allen. No team led more than four points in the first half, which ended with a 48-46 lead for UNC. In the second half, the UNC stays ahead or tied until Frank Jackson will give Duke the lead on free throw with fifteen minutes left in the rules. In a game that ultimately featured 24 lead changes and 14 ties, Justin Jackson made the UNC ride 74-71 with a three pointer straight after losing its first six attempts from outside the bow. After Jackson's shot, the Duke will be as close as one but Berry scored seven straight points to keep UNC forward. Allen did not normally miss three free throws in a row for Duke in the final minute and UNC won 90-83.
March 10, 2017: # 14 Duke 93, # 6 North Carolina 83
Six days after North Carolina avenged their previous defeat at Duke in February with a 90-83 victory at Dean Dome, the two teams will play in the ACC ACC semi-finals, this time in Brooklyn, New York at the Barclays Center. This game is the fifth new Duke and North Carolina play outside the state of North Carolina. North Carolina controlled the first half by beating Duke in paint 32-10, with Kennedy Meeks from North Carolina leading the charge. North Carolina was led by as many as 13 points and threatened to turn the game into an explosion, but Duke Grayson Allen made four 3-pointers to earn the Duke in 7 points in the half, with North Carolina leading 49-42. In the second half, with North Carolina leading the Duke 56-48 with the remaining 15: 4, North Carolina's Joel Berry II took his fourth offense, which forced North Carolina to take him out of the game. Though North Carolina leads with 13 points at 61-48 with 13:53 left, Duke uses 20-4 runs for the next five minutes, thanks to a steal and three-pointers from Duke Jayson Tatum and Luke Kennard, to put the Duke up 68 -65 to North Carolina with 8:24 left. The Duke then pulled away and won 93-83 to finish 45-22 through North Carolina in the final 14 minutes of the game.
Engagement and Tenting Students
To get a standing room in the annual Duke-UNC game at Cameron Indoor Stadium, students of Duke set up tents and slept outside in a grassy area outside the stadium known as Krzyzewskiville and named after head coach Mike Krzyzewski. The process of queuing tickets can last up to two months depending on the level of tenting that the student chooses to do and whether the game at Cameron Indoor is the first or second meeting of the team during the season. Tenting, as it is called, is governed by a complex set of rules that many Duke students can say. The rule was enforced by a group of students known as the Path Watch who set up tents and served as leader for the students section during the game.
Duke students regularly camped at Krzyweskiville are known for their readiness of the method, bringing headlights, portable chargers, shoe bins, and many layers of clothing to survive in the winter of North Carolina (games usually played in February or March, when the average is low in Durham are 29.5 and 37 degrees Fahrenheit respectively). In the hours leading up to the game, students play music and wear dark blue and white paint (Duke's color).
After the match, depending on the victory by Duke Blue Devils, students rush to their main residential quads (just a short distance from Cameron Indoor Stadium), and set fire to the bench. Many residential communities in Duke traditionally built and painted benches for everyday use in the hope of burning them to celebrate the victory over Carolina. The students then rebuild the benches soon after with the hope of burning them again next year.
In Carolina, the victory over Duke usually resulted in students "rushing" Franklin Street, the main road north of the UNC campus and the commercial heart of Chapel Hill. Police blocked the road before the game to anticipate thousands of students celebrating victory. The bonfire is a feature of this celebration, often using Duke's teeth as fuel.
Results
Game Score (1920-2018)
Achievements by season (1975-2018)
Maps Carolina-Duke rivalry
Football
Football competition is also intense, though not as strong as basketball competition. While both schools agree that Carolina holds a big lead in the series, the two schools disagree on the 1889 match in which both teams think they should be the home team. Carolina claims to lead 58-36-4; Duke claims UNC leads 57-37-4. (Two UNC wins, in 2008 and 2009, have been vacated and awaiting the final NCAA decision coming from 20 years of academic fraud.) On 10/20/12, Duke beat UNC in football for the first time since 2003. At 11/30/13, Duke beat UNC in football for the second consecutive year, 27-25, winning back the back of the game in the series for the first time since 1989. That year, Duke won the seventh ACC Championship, while UNC has won five times. The 2013 victory also gave the Duke Coastal Division championship and sent Duke to Dr Pepper ACC Championship Game for the first time since early 2005 and became the first Coastal Division representative besides Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech. Duke is the last university in the North Carolina Triangle region to win the ACC football championship. The two-game winning streak by Duke was struck in 2014 in a nationally televised game on television when Tar Heels defeated the Duke 45-20 at Wallace Wade Stadium. The commotion left Blue Devils out of the second ACC Championship game and allowed Georgia Tech to win the Coastal Division.
Nevertheless, there are some traditions behind the football competition. The two teams first met in 1888, and the competition has been renewed annually since 1922. In 1920 Duke started appearing as the last game of the Carolina football season with some regularity, Virginia being the other team with the place. The Tar Heels-Blue Devils bet will be the last regular season match for both teams for all but a few years from the 1930s until the ACC was split into two divisions in 2005. Now the schedule is less predictable. The battle at Wallace Wade Stadium in 2014 and 2016 took place on Thursday night and broadcast on ESPN, adding national exposure to the competition.
Other sports
The rivalry between Duke and Carolina has spread to other arenas. From 2001 to 2011, the competition was strengthened by the award of the Carlyle Cup. This cup is awarded annually to the school which has a combined head-to-head victory against other schools in all the university sports. UNC claimed the trophy 7 times, winning in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Duke won trophies 3 times, in 2001, 2003, and 2004. UNC and Duke tied for the trophy in 2007.
Duke and Carolina have also developed a strong female college basketball competition since the 1990s when the Duke and Carolina became the two strongest women's basketball teams in the country. Duke made four Final Four Women appearances in 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2006. Carolina made three Final Women's Four appearances in 1994 (winning the only NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship), 2006 and 2007.
In 1992, North Carolina beat Duke 9-1 in the NCAA championship in women's soccer in a game played at Chapel Hill's Fetzer Field, a home advantage set for Tar Heels. UNC is led by the legend of the future USA Team of Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm. It is the only two schools that have ever met for a national championship in any sport. In 2007, 2008, and 2010, Duke and North Carolina played each other in the Lacrosse NCAA Quarterfinals, with Duke winning every time. Duke has won the national championships in the men's lacrosse in 2010, 2013, and 2014.
Twenty-four students from two schools gathered from 14-16 January 2006 to try to break the world record for the longest basketball game ever recorded. This game sets a new world record in 57 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds with Duke winning the 3699-3444 game. All $ 60,000 raised from marathons benefited the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, an organization that helps children with life-threatening illnesses develop successful living skills through basketball.
School papers
As a tradition, one day before the Duke-Carolina basketball game, The Chronicle , Duke's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for today's edition under the title The Daily Tar Hole
References
Further reading
- Hate Like It Is Forever Forever: A Very Obsessive, Occasionally Stuffy, and Sometimes Not Rendering Story from the Duke-North Carolina Basketball Competition by Will Blythe [1]
- Blue Blood: Duke-Carolina: Inside the Most Roaring Rivalry in College Hoops by Art Chansky
External links
- Duke-UNC Dashboard Metric Dashboard
- HBO Documentary Battle for Tobacco Road
- UNC vs. Duke: Gerald Henderson Speaks About The Biggest Competition of College Basketball
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