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A scramble during a game in the 1944–45 season. 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 1910–11 men's basketball team. The men's basketball team of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is referred to as the North Carolina Tar Heels, and they play in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Tar Heels have played their games at the Dean Smith ...
The following year, North Carolina won their second NCAA championship. On March 29, 1982, Final Four MOP James Worthy scored 28 points and Michael Jordan hit the game-winning shot with 17 seconds to play as Carolina beat Georgetown, 63–62, to win Dean Smith's first national championship. On January 18, 1986, North Carolina beat Duke, 95–92 ...
Below is a list of each of North Carolina-Duke game in which both teams were ranked in the top 10: Dec. 30, 1955: No. 4 North Carolina 74, No. 8 Duke 64 Feb. 4, 1956: No. 10 Duke 64, No. 9 North ...
An all-ACC, Duke vs. UNC title game was averted when Roy Williams coached his Kansas Jayhawks team to victory over his mentor Dean Smith and his Tar Heels squad. In what would become the first of many matchups between Williams (later head coach at North Carolina until his retirement in 2021) and Mike Krzyzewski, Duke finally claimed its first ...
The Duke men's basketball team has been noted as a particularly hated team within the sport. Some of the hate comes from fans of rival teams, most notably the North Carolina Tar Heels. [116] The hate is often tied to Duke's record, as the team has experienced success in most seasons since the late 1980s. The hate is often tied to specific players.
The Wake–Duke rivalry is the oldest basketball rivalry among the four schools in that it dates back to the 1905–06 season and was the first intercollegiate basketball game in North Carolina. The Wake-Duke rivalry is just ahead of the more well known UNC-Duke rivalry in terms of games played by two games.
This is a list of top NCAA Division I Men's basketball teams ranked by the number of wins ... North Carolina: 1910 114 2,372 860 0 .734 4 Duke: 1906 119 2,300 929 ...