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Under The Radar Keys To Duke-UNC

If you’ve followed any of the media coverage hyping up the latest matchup along Tobacco Road tonight, you might be convinced it will simply be a game of one-on-one between Cameron Boozer and Caleb Wilson. Certainly, those freshman stars will surely play a major part in deciding the victor. However, games between Duke and UNC […]

From Duke Basketball Report | about 8 hours ago | 0 reads

What are your top three most memorable UNC-Duke games?

The first matchup between Carolina and Duke this season has finally arrived, and the stage looks set for an exciting evening. Both teams are ranked inside the top 15 and feature projected top-five NBA draft picks. On paper, it’s a game that could very well end up among the highlights of college basketball’s greatest rivalry.  […]

From Tar Heel Blog | about 8 hours ago | 0 reads

YouTube Gold: Austin Rivers Becomes Legend

For Game Day, we thought we’d feature arguably the greatest buzzer beater for Duke in the history of the Duke-UNC thang. Candidates include Gene Banks’ 1981 thriller and the double buzzer beaters by Tre Jones and Wendell Moore, but Austin Rivers’ buzzer beater just had…so much…swagger. When UNC misses, Miles Plumlee gets the rebound and […]

From Duke Basketball Report | about 11 hours ago | 0 reads

YouTube Gold: Duke-UNC, 1998 In Cameron

One of the better Duke-UNC games, at least from Duke’s point of view, came on February 28th, 1998, when Carolina visited Cameron. UNC was ranked #3 and Duke #1, but the Tar Heels took a 12-point lead into halftime before stretching it out to 17 after the break. But Duke wasn’t giving up. It had […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 1 day ago | 0 reads

Three things to watch as UNC Basketball takes on Duke

There may only be nine games left in the college basketball regular season, but with the NFL season ending on Sunday, Saturday night marks the actual start of the college basketball season for a lot of people. It is, of course, Carolina vs Duke Round 1. It’s the best rivalry in college basketball if not […]

From Tar Heel Blog | 2 days ago | 0 reads

YouTube Gold: Gene Banks Saves The Day In 1981

When we posted this yesterday, we knew some of you would have memories that we didn’t mention and sure enough, John wrote in to remind us of the 1981 classic. This was the final home game for Kenny Dennard and Gene Banks and Banks, who was one of the most charismatic players ever at Duke, […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 2 days ago | 0 reads

DBR Bites #141 – The Big Carolina Preview

With BC in the rear view, the Duke world can officially turn our attention to the hated Tar Heels. The Duke Basketball Roundup is going to have multiple previews of this weekend’s big game and it all starts with Jason and Donald doing a deep deep deep dive into this year’s Carolina team. What are […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 3 days ago | 2 reads

Cooper Flagg Continues To Silence Doubters

There are apparently some people who still think that Cooper Flagg is the product of hype, the latest Great White Hope, but the facts on the court show how lazy that sort of thinking is. Because Flagg is just killing it. These are some stats from the last three games: Over his last 10 games, […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 3 days ago | 1 read

ACC Men’s Basketball Power Rankings: Week 6

Several years ago, the ACC made a move that would change the sports world as we know it and make one weekend in February one of the greatest in all of sports. The first UNC/Duke matchup was historically on a weekday night up until the 2020 season when the ACC moved it to the first […]

From Tar Heel Blog | 3 days ago | 1 read

Twitter Gold: Kyrie Irving Destroys Michigan State

There are some great what-ifs in Duke Basketball history. What if Bob Verga hadn’t gotten sick just before the 1966 Final Four? What if Duke had played Texas Western instead of Kentucky? Could Mike Lewis have dealt with Big Daddy Lattin? We’ll never know. What if Bob Bender hadn’t had appendicitis during the 1980 NCAA […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 3 days ago | 0 reads

An Up And Down Duke Knocks Off BC, 67-49

You know that concern/complaint Duke fans have had this season about the Blue Devils starting slow? For at least one night, you can strike and reverse that, because Duke started Tuesday’s game against Boston College brilliantly, but trailed off significantly later. Not that it mattered. Duke was by far the better team in this one […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 4 days ago | 0 reads

UNC men move up again, as women re-enter AP Top 25 poll

As of Sunday, the calendar has now flipped to February. We are inching towards crunch time on the 2025-26 college basketball season. You know things are starting to heat up when the first UNC-Duke men’s game comes on the calendar, as it will this week. As we continue to get closer to March and the […]

From Tar Heel Blog | 4 days ago | 0 reads

Caleb Wilson earns Player of the Game in UNC’s win over Syracuse

This weekend, the North Carolina men’s basketball has quite the important event. On Saturday, they’re set to take on Duke in the first rivalry clash of this season. However before that, they had a game on Monday night against Syracuse to get through. There were two main objectives for UNC against the Orange. One was […]

From Tar Heel Blog | 4 days ago | 1 read

Bracketology 2026: Six Weeks Of Sorting Left

Today’s four No. 1 seeds, Arizona, UConn, Duke, and Michigan, have a combined record of 83-3 heading into the first week of February, with the Wolverines solidifying their place among the elite of the elite by defeating both 2 seed Nebraska at Crisler and 3 seed Michigan State in East Lansing. The quartet of No. […]

From Blogging the Bracket | 4 days ago | 0 reads

Three Takeaways from UNC Basketball’s home win over Syracuse

The game before the first Duke game has not been kind to North Carolina of late. In it’s past six contests before the Duke game leading up to the game against Syracuse, the Tar Heels were 1-5 with the one win being an overtime road win against Louisville. The five losses were mostly to not […]

From Tar Heel Blog | 4 days ago | 0 reads

Outside of men’s basketball, can UNC vs NC State ever compete with UNC vs Duke?

It’s Duke week. In fact, with last night’s game thankfully behind us, the countdown to Saturday’s UNC-Duke game has officially begun. We’re all working ourselves up in anticipation of the biggest rivalry in American sports and we’ll have plenty of coverage leading up to that big night. Of course, on another corner of the Triangle, […]

From Tar Heel Blog | 4 days ago | 0 reads

Next Up – Boston College In Cameron

Next up for Duke is Boston College and while BC is struggling again, the culture of this program is hard work. Earl Grant has not been able to recruit top-shelf talent, but he gets guys who are willing to play hard and that sometimes lead to surprises. In their last four games, the Eagles took […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 5 days ago | 0 reads

Duke Blows Wake Forest Out, 80-44

Duke ran its already impressive win streak to 13 with an 80-44 Sunday win over Wake Forest. Perhaps most impressive was forcing 31 turnovers from the Demon Deacons. It was a tough day for freshman guard Milan Brown, who had 7 personally. Obviously Wake wasn’t able to get much of a rhythm going; the Deacs […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 6 days ago | 2 reads

Boozer Just The Latest Duke Big Man Free To Shoot From Outside

If it’s not stunning, it’s only because it’s become familiar. Still, it remains striking every time 6-9 freshman Cameron Boozer, one of the ACC’s rebounding leaders, steps out to the perimeter and calmly, smoothly launches and makes a 3-pointer as an organic part of Duke’s offense. Boozer, as is well known by now, possesses a […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 10 days ago | 1 read

YouTube Gold: 25 Years Ago Tuesday, Duke Fans Got A Treat

For people who never saw him play, it would be hard to explain Duke’s Jason Williams. Built like a fireplug with a low center of gravity and also strong and explosive, Williams could do anything he wanted on the basketball court. Once against UCLA, he scored 17 straight points. And while he could be flakey […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 10 days ago | 1 read

Cruise Control: Duke Smokes Louisville By 31

This time was supposed to be different. Louisville with Mikel Brown was supposed to be a much tougher out. That’s what we thought, anyway. We thought it would be a really tight, challenging game. Not so much, as Duke ran the Cardinals out of the gym, 83-52. And Brown wasn’t much of a factor at […]

From Duke Basketball Report | 12 days ago | 2 reads

Duke demolishes Louisville by 31

Well, at least Louisville doesn’t have to worry about how they blew a sizable halftime lead after this one. Duke led by 10 at the break and did what they have done consistently to the Cardinals in the second half, rolling to an 83-52 rout that marked the largest margin of defeat of the Pat […]

From Card Chronicle | 12 days ago | 1 read