If Duke-UNC is going to continue being college basketball’s preeminent rivalry, it can’t live in the the past. It has to earn that juice. Right now? I just don't see it.

Jon Scheyer’s first game as Duke head coach against UNC went perfectly as the youthful Blue Devils proved too much for the veteran Tar Heels. The Duke-UNC rivalry was renewed in 2023 without ...

UNC and Duke women's basketball are carrying the torch of a century's long rivalry into their first ever March Madness meeting.

Duke-UNC is the only conference rivalry in the Sweet 16, but not the only conference rematch. Tennessee and Texas, in its first SEC season, will play on Saturday in the Birmingham 3 regional.

2. High-level basketball A major reason for the rivalry’s national prominence is because of the success of both teams. (At least since 1980, when Krzyzewski was hired; before then, UNC and NC ...

Daily Tar Heel, Duke Chronicle students play Rivalry Challenge basketball game, team up to raise funds for their newspapers ahead of Duke-UNC basketball game.

Cultivating its own brand of Tobacco Road testiness, the Duke-UNC rivalry has been one of college basketball's most celebrated traditions between two schools marked by long-held success and close ...

When people first think of the UNC-Duke rivalry, they most often think about men’s basketball. It is one of the most famous and legendary rivalries in the sports world. While men's basketball ...

UNC leads the all-time series with 145 wins to Duke's 117, but that includes a 16-game winning streak that took place a century ago. Since 1978, the series has stood as Duke 57, UNC 49.

And leaning on the Duke -UNC rivalry is such an easy button for ESPN; it has hosted GameDay on the last weekend of the regular season for 12 of the last 13 seasons.

If Duke-UNC is going to continue being college basketball’s preeminent rivalry, it can’t live in the the past. It has to earn that juice. Right now? I just don't see it.