UNC/Dook History

So, to get ready for the game, here is some history of the rivalry (by the numbers): (If there is anything similar from the dookies, I'd actually be interested in seeing it.)
(Posted by Adam Lucas on tarheelblue.com)

http://tarheelblue.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/030708aab.html

Saturday's game marks the fifth winner-take-all ACC regular season battle in the history of the Carolina-Duke series. The other four games:
In 1991, #4 Carolina hosted #8 Duke. The Blue Devils prevailed 83-77 to sweep the regular season series and win the league title with an 11-3 record. But one week later, the Tar Heels claimed a 96-74 decision in the ACC Tournament final.
In 1978, #8 Carolina hosted #13 Duke. The game turned into one of the most memorable senior days in Tar Heel history, as Phil Ford scored 34 points and handed out five assists while playing all 40 minutes to engineer an 87-83 victory. The game marked Ford's last victory at UNC.
In 1967, #4 Carolina toppled unranked Duke 92-79 in Chapel Hill.
In 1958, in the only winner-take-all game played in Durham, #6 Duke toppled #9 Carolina 59-46.
Saturday marks the first time Carolina has gone into Cameron Indoor Stadium as the nation's top-ranked team since Jan. 21, 1984 (a 78-73 victory). Carolina is 3-0 at Duke as the AP's top team; the Tar Heels also claimed victories in 1957 and 1982.
The Tar Heels have lost on four of their last five trips to Cameron Indoor for senior day. The lone victory came at the conclusion of the 2006 regular season.
The last time Carolina played Duke as the nation's top team was on March 7, 1993. The Tar Heels won that game 83-69 over sixth-ranked Duke. Overall, Carolina has won five of its last six games against the Blue Devils when ranked first (A stretch that includes one win in 1986, a pair in 1984, and another win in 1982. Duke upset top-ranked Carolina in the ACC Tournament in 1984.).
The 44.8% Duke shot from the 3-point line in the first meeting is the second-highest figure allowed by Carolina this season (the top was Boston College's 47.4% in the game at Chestnut Hill).


The 17.6% Carolina shot from the 3-point line in the first meeting is the lowest figure of the season and the lowest for Carolina since March 23, 2007, when the Tar Heels shot 14.3% from the 3-point line against Southern Cal in the NCAA Tournament.
Duke has not shot 50% from the floor against Carolina in the Roy Williams era. The last time the Blue Devils broke that mark against UNC was March 15, 2003, in a 75-63 ACC Tournament victory.
Wayne Ellington is 6-27 from the field in his career against Duke.
This season will mark 42 of the ACC's 55 seasons that either Carolina or Duke has won at least a share of the league's regular season title.
Tyler Hansbrough has been the game's leading scorer in three of his five career games against the Blue Devils and is averaging 22.2 points and 11.4 rebounds all-time against Duke.
Danny Green is just 1-9 all-time against Duke from the three-point line.
The current Carolina junior class is trying to go 4-2 against the Blue Devils in their first three seasons. The last class to do better in three seasons was the class of juniors in 1998, which went 5-2 against Duke over three seasons. That class included Antawn Jamison, Vince Carter, and Ademola Okulaja.

 

Duke knocks down 13 3's, ends 3-game skid vs. UNC
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· ESPN's Vitale receives warm reception in return
Team Stat Comparison
DUKE NORTH CAROLINA
Points 89 78
FG Made-Attempted 30-66 (.455) 28-69 (.406)
3P Made-Attempted 13-29 (.448) 3-17 (.176)
FT Made-Attempted 16-27 (.593) 19-30 (.633)
Fouls (Tech/Flagrant) 24 (0/0) 26 (0/0)
Largest Lead 11 5
Game Leaders
DUKE NORTH CAROLINA
Points G. Paulus 18 T. Hansbrough 28
Rebounds K. Singler 10 T. Hansbrough 18
Assists D. Nelson 5 Q. Thomas 7
Steals G. Paulus 4 D. Green 1
Blocks K. Singler 2 A. Stepheson 2
· Team Stats: Duke | North Carolina
Game Flow
2007-08 Season
DATE GAME LINKS
· Feb 6, 2008 DUKE 89, @UNC 78 Recap | Box Score
Mar 8, 2008 UNC @ DUKE 9:00 PM ET
Next 5 Games
DUKE (ET) NORTH CAROLINA (ET)
02/09 BC 1:00pm
02/13 MD 7:00pm
02/17 @WAKE 7:30pm
02/20 @MIA 9:00pm
02/23 SJU 4:00pm

02/10 CLEM 6:30pm
02/12 @UVA 8:00pm
02/16 VT 1:00pm
02/20 @NCST 7:00pm
02/24 WAKE 6:30pm
· Complete Schedule: Duke | North Carolina
Atlantic Coast Conference Standings
TEAM CONF W-L TOTAL W-L
#3 North Carolina 13-2 28-2
#2 Duke 13-2 26-3
Clemson 9-6 21-8
Virginia Tech 9-6 18-11
Miami (FL) 8-7 21-8
Maryland 8-7 18-12
Wake Forest 6-9 16-12
Florida State 6-9 17-13
Georgia Tech 6-9 13-16
North Carolina State 4-11 15-14
Virginia 4-11 14-14
Boston College 4-11 13-15
· View expanded standings

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Duke has spent the entire season erasing memories of last year's un-Duke-like struggles. Now, after an impressive win against their biggest rivals, the Blue Devils are starting to look like a team that fits right in with their storied tradition.

Greg Paulus scored 18 points and was one of six players in double figures in the second-ranked Blue Devils' 89-78 win over the third-ranked Tar Heels on Wednesday night, ending a three-game losing streak in the heated rivalry.

Freshman Kyle Singler added 17 points for Duke (20-1, 8-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), which repeatedly knocked down 3-point shots to control the game almost the entire way. Duke led by as many as 11 points in the first half and never trailed after the break, beating the short-handed Tar Heels for the first time since the 2005-06 season.

Picked to finish second in the ACC, the Blue Devils figured to be too small up front to contend with the favored Tar Heels this year. Yet behind a spread-the-floor attack that creates matchup problems all over the court, Duke is alone atop the league and looking like a good bet to win the regular-season race.

"They're pretty special right now," Blue Devils coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "We know who we are. We're a very unconventional team. We're not a strong physical team, but we are strong team emotionally, a real together group.

"You have to hope you don't get killed by a team for a stretch by their strength. You have to find a way and because we have versatile players we've been able to do that so far."

Duke shot 46 percent and went 13-for-29 from 3-point range, with Paulus going 6-for-8 from behind the arc. That was just too much on the perimeter for the Tar Heels (21-2, 6-2), who played without injured point guard Ty Lawson and seemed like they had to fight the entire way just to stay within reach.

"We definitely drove the ball and got a couple good penetrate and kicks," Paulus said. "I'm not sure what we shot, but it seemed like whenever we needed a 3, we had guys who took big shots and knocked them down."

Tyler Hansbrough had 28 points and 18 rebounds in what became virtually a one-man effort, but the Tar Heels looked a step off all night with Lawson watching from the bench after spraining his left ankle in the weekend win at Florida State.

North Carolina twice closed to within a point early in the second half, but Duke never wavered or looked flustered in a hostile environment.

"We're looking to take over this league," said Gerald Henderson, who had 12 points for the Blue Devils. "We hope that we can continue to play like this and win like this. ... We just want to continue to add in the left side of the column."

It was a surprisingly one-sided outcome in a rivalry that drew plenty of notable onlookers, including former Tar Heels basketball players Raymond Felton and Sean May, former Tar Heels football star Julius Peppers and even former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards.

As if the rivalry wasn't intense enough already, it was the first meeting since the flagrant foul from Henderson that left Hansbrough with a bloodied and broken nose in an ugly scene here last March. The rowdy home crowd obviously hadn't forgotten, booing lustily every time Henderson touched the ball and even holding up "Wanted" signs featuring his picture when he went to the foul line late in the first half.

Hansbrough has repeatedly claimed the incident is behind him, but he played like he hadn't forgotten, either. He scored eight points in the first 5 minutes and ended up surpassing Michael Jordan for 11th on the school's career scoring list.

The problem for the Tar Heels was that no one followed his lead.

Wayne Ellington, who came in second on the team at 16.2 points per game, had a miserable shooting night, finishing with eight points on 3-for-14 shooting, including 0-for-6 from behind the 3-point arc. That included a huge miss late on a 3 that looked good until it rattled around the cylinder and rolled out with the Tar Heels trailing 78-70 with 2:43 left.

Meanwhile, sixth man Danny Green finished with three points on 1-for-10 shooting, far below his season average of 12.1 points.

North Carolina shot just 41 percent for the game, including 3-for-17 from behind the arc.

"It was just one of those nights," Ellington said. "We couldn't get the ball to fall."

At least some of that could be attributed to the absence of Lawson, the speedy sophomore who powers the Tar Heels' fast-paced offense and gets them plenty of easy baskets. Quentin Thomas performed capably in Lawson's absence, finishing with 10 points and seven assists with six turnovers.

The Blue Devils, meanwhile, did exactly what they needed to do to offset the Tar Heels' advantage up front. They repeatedly got open looks off penetration and kickouts. Paulus was the biggest beneficiary, hitting his first five 3-pointers. But, unlike Hansbrough, he had plenty of help.

Freshman Kyle Singler had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and DeMarcus Nelson had 13 points. Duke also got a boost inside from Lance Thomas, who had 10 points and five rebounds while battling North Carolina's bigger front line all night.

"They got any shot they wanted," North Carolina coach Roy Williams said. "I don't know very many times tonight that our defense dictated what shot they got. They had better spacing, more patience."

 

These guys have played before?

 

Cliff Notes would be nice.

 

This was a great year for the series, for a couple of interesting reasons. Duke had beaten UNC by 14 at Cameron, leaving the aggregate score at +20. UNC then beat the living dogshit out of Duke in the ACC Final. That same Duke team went on to one of the biggest upsets in NCAA history when they beat UNLV in the Final Four, and the National Championship. Duke of course won again the next year, while UNC got over the year after that. Those were some really intense (although often not very competitive) games.



edit: Now this is a good topic, I'll add more later.


edit2: Those 1991 battles actually led to some good discussion between my friends and I on what was more important, the regular season or the tournament. Obviously the tournament champion was the ACC Champions, so UNC won the ACC that year while Duke had to settle for the NCAA tournament.

 

Yeah the early 90's were pretty good for dook. UNC got back on track in '93. I'm not sure dook has ever had a better team than the laettner/hurley/hill teams.

 

Another dook/unc matchup in the ACC Finals that sticks out in my mind dispite being a blowout was the 2001 matchup. It came a little over a week after Carlos Boozer broke his foot and Maryland blew out Dook in Durham. Everyone buried Dook but they came out with a new lineup and absolutely demolished the favored Heels in Chapel Hill. They used that momentum to fly through the ACC Tourny before coming up against UNC again in the Finals.

UNC was still unprepared for Dook as they were running circles around the Tarholes. All was good until about 5 minutes left in the game, when Jason Williams severely sprained his ankle going up by himself on a breakaway layup. If I remember correctly, JWill missed the first game of the NCAA tourny, and wasn't full strength until the Final Four if that. He played well in the FF but he didn't have his explosion. Thanks to Dunleavy's 3 threes in about 50 seconds, it didn't cost us the championship.

 

Do you remember when Bobby Boucher showed up at halftime and the Mud Dogs won the Bourbon Bowl?

 

How about this game. I'll always remember the picture of Montross bleeding... And now I'll always remember Hansbrough bleeding as well. Why is it that the dookies always have to try to injure the Heels? (Can't win any other way?)

February 5, 1992: UNC 75, Duke 73
In a rough game between the No. 1 Blue Devils and No. 9 Tar Heels that featured blood and broken bones, Duke used an early 9-0 run to take a 16-11 lead with 12:55 to go in the first half. Hubert Davis' 3-point play capped off a North Carolina run to give the Tar Heels a 20-19 lead. The teams would exchange the lead 10 times before a Thomas Hill baseline jumper gave the Blue Devils a 39-38 halftime lead. The Tar Heels opened the second half with a 10-0 spurt, but then saw its offense disappear. Duke went five minutes before scoring a second-half basket but fought back with tough defense, holding UNC without a field goal over the last 9½ minutes of the game. Carolina hit 12 of 14 free throws during that 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 tie the game in the final 24 seconds, but missed both. However, the lasting image from this game had to be North Carolina's Eric Montross who took a couple rough elbows to the face and looked more like a boxer than a center as he sank two late free throws with blood streaming down his face. Brian Davis led Duke with 16 points, while Davis scored 16 for UNC.