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The 2022 Final Four brought us one of the more anticipated fields in recent memory, with the highlight between the first-ever meeting between bitter rivals Duke and North Carolina. Through one half of play on Saturday in New Orleans, we have the fight everyone expected on our hands with the Blue Devils taking a 37-34 lead into the locker room. Leading the way through the first 20 minutes for the Blue Devils has been stud freshman Paolo Banchero, who has dropped in 10 points along with six rebounds. For the Tar Heels, RJ Davis has carried the load to the tune of 14 points. This is a meeting of historic proportions, and we're 20 minutes away from one of these rivals moving on to face Kansas in the NCAA championship game on Monday night. LIVE updates: Score, highlights and analysis as Duke battles North Carolina in the Final Four on Saturday How to watch Duke vs. North CarolinaDate: Saturday, April 2 | Time: 8:49 p.m. ET Duke vs. North Carolina: Need to KnowsAbout the Blue Devils: For Mike Krzyzewski to walk off the court in New Orleans as a national champion for the sixth time, closing his career with a title, would be among the best stories in all of American sports. Duke's expectation is to compete at a high level and be in a position to win two games in the Final Four and do so, and there's plenty of evidence to suggest they've got what it takes. Beating two of the best defensive teams in the NCAA Tournament eliminates the idea that there's some secret to stopping Duke's success, which means the onus is on the coaches and players to be in position to make history. -- Chip Patterson About the Tar Heels: According to BartTorvik.com, where you can not only check out season-long adjusted efficiency numbers but also sort the data set by date, North Carolina is the No. 1 team in the country in adjusted offensive efficiency since March 1. The seven-game run is absolutely up for critique because of the small sample size, but it backs up what our eyes have told us as well. North Carolina may not be the absolute No. 1 team in the country right now, but it's been playing as well as the best teams in the country since the calendar turned from February to March. The Tar Heels are a No. 8 seed in the tournament but the quality of play represents a team that does not check in as the No. 29 to No. 32 team in the field of 68. Still, the task of winning the next game is the largest at hand. Duke will be uniquely motivated having learned the lessons of how this current version of the Tar Heels handle business, and this time the pomp and circumstance is going to be evenly divided and not one-sided. After being 11-point underdogs in Durham, now it's North Carolina that has to handle expectations of being ready to compete on a big stage. . -- Patterson Duke vs. North Carolina: PredictionsDuke and North Carolina split the regular-season series, but UNC played spoiler in its win beyond winning on Duke's home court. That's because the Tar Heels' win came in Coach K's finale at Cameron Indoor. So as silly and cliche as it sounds, the revenge narrative for Duke here makes me a believer. Likely to be a close one -- almost certainly will be a close one -- but Blue Devils by a field goal feels like the number. Take the points. Kyle Boone's Pick: North Carolina +4
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This article needs additional citations for verification.(September 2019) This article's tone or style may not reflect the encyclopedic tone used on Wikipedia.(September 2019) The Carolina–Duke rivalry refers to the sports rivalry between the University of North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke University Blue Devils, particularly in the sport of basketball. It is considered one of the most intense rivalries in all of US sports: a poll conducted by ESPN in 2000 ranked the basketball rivalry as the third greatest North American sports rivalry, and Sports Illustrated on Campus named it the #1 "Hottest Rivalry" in college basketball and the #2 rivalry overall in its November 18, 2003 issue. The intensity of the rivalry is augmented for many reasons. One reason is by the proximity of the two universities—they are located only ten miles apart along U.S. Highway 15–501 (also known as Tobacco Road) or eight miles apart in straight-line distance. In addition, Duke is a private university whereas Carolina is a public school; the vastly different funding structures and cultures between the two further contribute to the intensity of the rivalry.[2] However one of biggest reasons for this rivalry lies in their respective basketball programs. Almost every year at least one of the schools is a contender to win the national championship.
SportCollege basketballFirst meetingJanuary 24, 1920 North Carolina 36, Duke (Trinity College) 25[1]Latest meetingApril 2, 2022 North Carolina 81, Duke 77Next meeting2023StatisticsMeetings total258All-time seriesNorth Carolina leads, 143–115Largest victoryNorth Carolina: 37 points (1921) Duke: 35 points (1964)Longest win streakNorth Carolina, 16 (1921–28)Current win streakUNC, 2
Carolina leads the rivalry 143-115.[3] Duke and North Carolina played their first basketball game on January 24, 1920.[3] The two teams have met at least twice a year since then. The games frequently determine the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion; since the ACC's founding in 1953, Duke and Carolina have combined to win or share 49 ACC regular season titles (77.7% of the total) and 38 tournament titles (59.4% of the total), including 14 of 15 from 1996 to 2011. The final game of the regular season for both schools alternates between Chapel Hill and Durham and has been played in Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1940 and the Dean E. Smith Center since 1986. The Carolina–Duke rivalry is all the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 40 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; Carolina is third on the list of all-time winningest programs in Division I history, while Duke is fourth.[4][5][6][7] Carolina has won six NCAA championships and appeared in a record 21 Final Fours,[5][8] Additionally, Carolina was also retroactively awarded a national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1942 for their undefeated 1924 season. Combining for eleven national championships over the last 36 years, Duke and Carolina have captured 28% of the national championships, or greater than one every four years. Over the past 18 years, one of the two teams has been the AP pre-season #1 ranked team in the country 8 times (44% of the time). Since 1977–78, Duke or Carolina has been in the pre-season top three 28 times (70%). Over the entirety of the AP poll (the past 69 years), the teams have been in the pre-season top four 69% of the time. Over this same period, one has been pre-season #1 18 times, making it an almost 3 in 10 chance that Duke or North Carolina starts the year at #1 in the last 50+ years. One of the two teams has peaked at AP #1 in 32 separate seasons since 1977, a 7 in 10 chance that Duke or Carolina peaked as the top-ranked team in the country at some point in the season since 1977. HistoryThough the two schools have always had the great emotion born of familiarity and proximity, some of the earliest roots of the modern basketball rivalry occurred in the early 1960s when Art Heyman reneged on his commitment to play for North Carolina in order to commit to playing for Duke.[9] After a brawl between the two universities' freshman teams during the 1959–60 season involving Heyman and North Carolina's Dieter Krause, tensions heightened further during a February 4, 1961, varsity game when a brawl occurred initiated by Heyman and North Carolina's Larry Brown, which resulted in suspensions for both players. The rivalry reached unprecedented heights in the mid-1980s under head coaches Dean Smith of North Carolina and Mike Krzyzewski of Duke, thanks to the emergence of cable channels such as ESPN and the increasing coverage of the ACC in national broadcasts by the three major networks, giving a vast national audience more opportunities to witness the two teams and their coaches. Indeed, the two teams have been fixtures on national television since the early 1980s, and their final regular season clash has been nationally televised for most of the last 30 years. When Smith retired after the 1997 season, he held what was at the time the record for most wins by an NCAA Division I men's head coach, with 879 wins. On December 29, 2010, against the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski passed coach Smith with his 880th win to become the 2nd all-time winningest coach in Division I men's basketball,[10] (a mark he has since surpassed). In 1982, with players Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins and James Worthy, coach Smith won his first national championship and second overall for UNC that year. In 1991 Duke won its first national championship and then with most of their team returning, won another national championship in 1992. North Carolina then won the championship the next year in 1993. Since then, Duke won the national championship in 2001, 2010 and 2015 while North Carolina won national championships in 2005, 2009, and 2017. In 2011, Krzyzewski became the new holder of the record for most career wins by a D-I men's coach, surpassing his mentor Bob Knight (who had surpassed Smith in 2007).[11] On January 25, 2015, Krzyzewski also became the first NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball head coach to reach 1,000 career wins after Duke defeated St Johns in Madison Square Garden 77–68. On February 16, 2019, Krzyzewski won his 1,123rd game to become the all-time winningest coach in college basketball history at any level (men's or women's), passing Harry Statham of Division II McKendree University. After Smith's retirement 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. The six seasons between Bill Guthridge and Matt Doherty from 1997 to 2003 Duke won 13 of 17 games against North Carolina and some said that the rivalry was on the decline. However, with the arrival of North Carolina's alumnus Roy Williams as head coach in 2003, North Carolina won six regular season titles in eight years (2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012), won the ACC tournament in back to back years in 2007 and 2008 and won its fourth, fifth, and sixth NCAA championships in 2005, 2009, and 2017 respectively. North Carolina also won 6 of 8 games against Duke from 2005 to 2009.[12] Erik Spanberg of The Christian Science Monitor even argued in 2008 that the rivalry has tilted towards North Carolina in recent years.[13] However, since 2009 and as of March 11, 2017 Duke has won 13 of the past 18 games against North Carolina including 3 season sweeps over North Carolina in 2010, 2013 and 2015 and Duke has won 2 national championships since then in 2010 and 2015. During the 2009–2010 season, Duke won the regular season finale by 32 points, which was the second largest Duke win in series history.[14] Following that game, Duke went on to win a fourth National title in 2010. Former Esquire editor and author (and North Carolina graduate) Will Blythe argues that the rivalry's passion can be attributed greatly to class and culture in the South.
The rivalry has been the subject of various books and articles, including To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever by Blythe and Blue Blood by Art Chansky.[16] Further illustrating the intensity of the rivalry, U.S. Representative Brad Miller, a die-hard Carolina fan, told an Associated Press writer in 2012, "I have said very publicly that if Duke was playing against the Taliban, then I'd have to pull for the Taliban."[17] NCAA Tournament/Postseason NITPrior to their meeting in the 2022 NCAA Final Four, they have met once in the 1971 National Invitation Tournament, with North Carolina winning 73–67 in the semifinals at Madison Square Garden. Under current bracket rules, if both teams qualify for the NCAA Tournament, the earliest both teams would be able to meet in the NCAA Tournament is the Regional Semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) due to facing each other at least twice per season. If both teams meet three or more times (typically by meeting one another in the ACC Tournament), then the earliest both teams can meet in the NCAA Tournament is the Regional Finals (Elite Eight). In 1991, the teams came within one game of playing each other for the national championship, as both advanced to that year's Final Four at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Chansky writes in Blue Blood that Carolina fans chanted "0-for-4!" at the Duke fans, while Duke responded with "Long time, no see!" In the first semifinal, North Carolina was upset 79–73 by a Kansas team coached by Roy Williams, who would later return to Chapel Hill to take the head coaching job. Some Duke fans had already arrived for their team's game by the time Dean Smith was ejected for arguing with the officials, and Chansky writes that they were ecstatic at the ejection, waving their hands and yelling, "See ya!" as they normally did at Cameron for a player or coach who was ejected or in foul trouble. Below, in the Duke locker room, the Blue Devils were preparing for a rematch of the 1990 title game with UNLV in their semifinal. UNLV had won that game by 30 points and had come in undefeated in 1991, with many wondering if they were the best college basketball team ever. When the Carolina-Kansas result news got through, Mike Krzyzewski asked the team if they felt it was okay to lose since that meant they would do no worse than the Tar Heels, and some nodded. Krzyzewski understood but then added, "Flush it. Let's go kick their ass." Duke then stunned the sports world by defeating UNLV 79–77 and then went one better by beating Kansas 72–65 in the championship game to win its first national title. Chansky writes that one UNC athletic department staffer in Indianapolis was so distraught that he did not leave his hotel room the day after the national championship game, while when Duke arrived back in Durham, Krzyzewski is said to have asked the team at a turnoff to Chapel Hill if the team wanted to cruise down Franklin Street. In the wake of the Final Four, when talking about how close the two rivals came to meeting for the national championship, Krzyzewski said that he never wanted to see it happen because regardless of who won, the pain of losing that game would be unbearable for the defeated school and its fans.[16] Memorable games and incidentsMarch 2, 1968: #10 Duke 87, #3 North Carolina 86 (3OT)At Duke Indoor Stadium, Durham March 25, 1971: #13 North Carolina 73, Duke 67At Madison Square Garden, New York City (National Invitation Tournament Semifinals) March 2, 1974: #4 North Carolina 96, Duke 92 (OT)At Carmichael Auditorium, Chapel Hill January 3, 1975: Duke 99, #8 North Carolina 96 (OT)At Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro (Big Four Tournament) February 24, 1979: #6 Duke 47, #4 North Carolina 40External video Video highlights from Duke University Libraries on YouTubeAt Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham Duke coach Bill Foster wasn't amused by Smith's tactics in the first half and the next day said, "I've been doing this a long time, but during the first half last night I began to think maybe I've been doing it for too long." He then added this infamous dig: "I thought Naismith invented basketball, not Dean Smith." December 5, 1980: #10 North Carolina 78, Duke 76At Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro (Big Four Tournament) February 28, 1981: Duke 66, #11 North Carolina 65 (OT)External video Late-game video highlights on YouTubeAt Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham March 3, 1984: #1 North Carolina 96, Duke 83 (2OT)At Carmichael Auditorium, Chapel Hill March 10, 1984: #16 Duke 77, #1 North Carolina 75At Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro (ACC Tournament Semifinals) January 18, 1986: #1 North Carolina 95, #3 Duke 92External video The opening ceremony for the Dean Smith Center at the start of the game on YouTubeAt the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill January 21, 1988: #9 Duke 70, #2 North Carolina 69At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill March 12, 1989: #9 North Carolina 77, #7 Duke 74At the Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Georgia (ACC Tournament Championship) February 5, 1992: #9 North Carolina 75, #1 Duke 73At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill February 2, 1995: #2 North Carolina 102, Duke 100 (2OT)External video Jeff Capel's buzzer-beater to send the game to overtime on YouTubeAt Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham January 31, 1996: #8 North Carolina 73, Duke 72At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill February 28, 1998: #1 Duke 77, #3 North Carolina 75At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham February 3, 2000: #3 Duke 90, North Carolina 86 (OT)At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill March 4, 2001: #2 Duke 95, #4 North Carolina 81At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill February 4, 2004: #1 Duke 83, #17 North Carolina 81 (OT)At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill March 6, 2005: #2 North Carolina 75, #6 Duke 73At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill March 4, 2006: #13 North Carolina 83, #1 Duke 76At Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham March 4, 2007: #8 North Carolina 86, #14 Duke 72At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill February 8, 2012: #9 Duke 85, #5 North Carolina 84At the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill Rameses, UNC's famed live mascot, died the next day. Ann Leonard, Rameses' owner, said the 8-year-old ram died peacefully, most likely of old age.[25] February 18, 2015: #4 Duke 92, #15 North Carolina 90 (OT)External video Video highlights on YouTube Full game broadcast on YouTubeAt Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham March 4, 2017: #5 North Carolina 90, #17 Duke 83External video Video highlights on YouTubeAt the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill March 10, 2017: #14 Duke 93, #6 North Carolina 83External video Video highlights on YouTubeAt the Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York (ACC Tournament Semifinals) February 20, 2019: #8 North Carolina 88, #1 Duke 72External video Video highlights on YouTubeAt Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham March 15, 2019: #5 Duke 74, #3 North Carolina 73External video Video highlights on YouTubeAt the Spectrum Center, Charlotte (ACC Tournament Semifinals) February 8, 2020: #7 Duke 98, North Carolina 96 (OT)External video Video highlights from the end of the game on YouTube Full game broadcast on YouTubeAt the Dean Smith Center, Chapel Hill March 5, 2022: North Carolina 94, #4 Duke 81External video Video highlights on YouTube Full game broadcast on YouTubeAt Cameron Indoor Stadium, Durham April 2, 2022: (#8 East) North Carolina 81, #9 (#2 West) Duke 77External video Video highlights on YouTube Full game broadcast by CBS on YouTubeAt the Caesars Superdome, New Orleans, Louisiana (NCAA Tournament Final Four) During the tournament, Mike Krzyzewski passed UCLA's John Wooden for the most Final Four appearances by a single head coach, while North Carolina also set a record with their 21st Final Four appearance and beat two Final Four teams from the previous season in UCLA and reigning national champion Baylor. In a thriller that included 18 lead changes, Carolina overcame a 3-point halftime deficit to win 81-77.[3] It was Carolina's 7th win vs Duke in their previous 11 meetings. North Carolina was led by sophomore Caleb Love, whose 28-point performance included a clutch 3-point shot that stretched the North Carolina lead to 4 with only 24.8 seconds remaining and signaled the conclusion of both Duke's season and Krzyzewski's career. Having bested him for the second game in a row in his rookie season as head coach, Hubert Davis led North Carolina into the national championship against Kansas. Route to the game
Student engagement and tentingIn order to get standing room in the annual Duke-UNC game in Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke students set up tents and sleep outside in a grassy area outside of the stadium known as Krzyzewskiville and named after head coach Mike Krzyzewski. The process of lining up for tickets can last up to two months depending on the level of tenting the students choose to do and whether the game in Cameron Indoor is the first or second meeting of the teams during the season. The complex tenting rules are enforced by a set of students known as Line Monitors who regulate the tents and serve as leaders for the student section during the games.[citation needed] Duke students who regularly camp in Krzyzewskiville are known for their methodical preparedness, bringing headlamps, portable chargers, shoe bins, and many layers of clothing to endure the North Carolina winters (games are typically played in February or March, when the average low in Durham is 29.5 and 37 degrees Fahrenheit, respectively[31]). In the hours leading up to the game, students play music and put on dark blue and white paint (Duke's colors). After the game, dependent on a win by the Duke Blue Devils, students rush out to their main residential quads (only a short distance from Cameron Indoor Stadium), and burn benches. Many residential communities at Duke traditionally build and paint benches for day-to-day use in the hopes of burning them in celebration of a win over Carolina. The students then rebuild benches shortly after in hopes of being able to burn them again the next year.[32] At Carolina, a win over Duke typically results in students rushing Franklin Street, the main thoroughfare just north of UNC's campus and the commercial heart of Chapel Hill. Police block off the street before the game in anticipation of thousands of students celebrating the win. Bonfires are also a feature of these celebrations, often using Duke gear as fuel.[citation needed] ResultsScores of games (1920–2022)Complete List of Scores
Ranking of the team at the time of the game by the AP poll is shown in parenthesis next to the team name (failure to list AP ranking does not necessarily mean the team was not ranked at the time of the game).
Achievements by season (1975–2022)Achievements by Season
* This was the last year of a balanced regular season schedule (each team played a home-and-away series with every other conference foe). In subsequent years, this was not possible due to conference expansion.[33] † The NCAA tournament was canceled in response to the COVID-19 global pandemic of 2020. The ACC tournament was canceled after the second round after North Carolina was eliminated and Duke had yet to play a game. The football rivalry is also intense, although not as intense as the basketball rivalry. While both schools agree that Carolina holds a large lead in the series, the two schools disagree on an 1889 game in which both teams thought they were supposed to be the home team. Carolina claims a 58–36–4 lead; Duke claims UNC leads 57–37–4. On 10/20/12, Duke beat UNC in football for the first time since 2003. On 11/30/13, Duke beat UNC in football for the second straight year, 27–25, winning back to back games in the series for the first time since 1989. That year, Duke won its seventh ACC Championship, while UNC has won five times. The 2013 win also gave Duke the outright Coastal Division championship and sent Duke to the ACC Championship Game for the first time since its 2005 inception and became the first Coastal Division representative other than Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech. Duke is the last university in the North Carolina Triangle region to win an ACC football championship. The two game win streak by Duke was snapped in 2014 on a nationally televised Thursday game when the Tar Heels beat Duke 45–20 at Wallace Wade Stadium. The upset loss took the Blue Devils out of a second ACC Championship game and allowed Georgia Tech to win the Coastal Division. Nonetheless, there is some tradition behind the football rivalry. The two teams first met in 1888, and the rivalry has been renewed every year since 1922. In the 1920s Duke began appearing as the last game of the Carolina football season with some regularity, Virginia being the other team with that spot.[34] The Tar Heels-Blue Devils matchup would be the last regular season game for both teams for all but a few years from the 1930s until the ACC split into two divisions in 2005. Now the schedules are less predictable. The matchups at Wallace Wade Stadium in 2014 and 2016 took place on Thursday night and were televised on ESPN, adding national exposure to the rivalry.
The rivalry between Duke and Carolina has spilled over into other arenas. From 2001 until 2011, the rivalry was strengthened by the awarding of the Carlyle Cup. This cup was given each year to the school that had the most combined head-to-head wins against the other school in all of the shared varsity sports. UNC claimed the cup 7 times, winning in 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Duke won the cup 3 times, in 2001, 2003, and 2004. UNC and Duke tied for the cup in 2007.[35] Duke and Carolina have also developed a strong women's college basketball rivalry since the 1990s as Duke and Carolina field two of the strongest women's basketball teams in the nation. Duke made four Women's Final Four appearances in 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2006. Carolina made three Women's Final Four appearances in 1994 (winning its only NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship), 2006, and 2007. In 1992 North Carolina defeated Duke by a 9–1 score in the NCAA championship game in women's soccer in a game played in Chapel Hill's Fetzer Field, a decided home advantage for the Tar Heels. UNC was led by future Team USA legends Kristine Lilly and Mia Hamm. This is the only time the two schools have ever met for a national championship in any sport. In men's lacrosse the two schools have developed a fierce rivalry that carries national implications. Duke has won national championships in men's lacrosse in 2010, 2013, and 2014, while North Carolina has five titles. In 2007, 2008, and 2010, Duke and North Carolina played each other in the NCAA lacrosse quarterfinals, with Duke winning each time. The programs have also met 13 times in ACC postseason play, with UNC leading the overall rivalry 42–33 through 2020. For further information, see Duke–North Carolina lacrosse rivalry. Twenty four students from the two schools got together from January 14–16, 2006 in order to attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous game of basketball ever recorded. The game set a new world record at 57 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds with Duke winning the game 3699–3444. All $60,000 raised from the marathon benefited the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, an organization which helps children with life-threatening illnesses develop successful life skills through basketball.[36] As a tradition, one day prior to a Duke-Carolina basketball game, The Chronicle, Duke's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title The Daily Tar Hole. Contained within are fake news stories poking fun at The Daily Tar Heel and the North Carolina Tar Heels. The Daily Tar Heel typically publishes former columnist Ian Williams' "Insider's guide to hating Duke" for the two basketball match-ups each year. There is a longstanding agreement that if Duke wins the first matchup, The Daily Tar Heel's masthead is printed in Duke blue, and if Carolina wins the first matchup, The Chronicle's masthead is painted Carolina blue. The losing school's paper also has to put the other school's logo in a conspicuous location and claim that the winning school is "still the best."[37]
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