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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.
In 1971 the two rivals met in the semi-finals of the NIT, a game also won by North Carolina by a score of 73 - 69. Duke also has rivalries with NC State and Wake Forest, and together with UNC, the 4 schools form Tobacco Road. Duke and North Carolina have combined for 11 national championships, with North Carolina leading Duke 6–5.
The Tar Heels have played their games at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina since 1986. As of the 2009–10 season, North Carolina had the second most wins and the second highest winning percentage of any NCAA Division I men's team with a record of 2,004 wins and 720 losses over 100 seasons. [1]
Duke's Cooper Flagg (2) celebrates after hitting a 3-point basket against North Carolina's Seth Trimble (7) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Saturday, Feb ...
North Carolina and NC State have played 14 times as top-10 squads, followed by Kentucky-Duke; North Carolina-Kentucky; and North Carolina-Maryland, each with 13 top-10 meetings.
Yes, Duke and UNC are basketball schools, in the historic sense and in terms of fan interest. But every major-conference school these days is football-first.
In 1956, the university moved its campus across the state of North Carolina to its current location in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The football rivalry, first meeting in 1888, is the oldest intercollegiate football rivalry in the American state of North Carolina [ 1 ] As of 2021, there have been 109 games between the two teams.
Duke and North Carolina tipoff at the start of their game in the Final Four at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, La., Saturday, April 2, 2022.