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The North Carolina Tar Heels made history on Tuesday, finishing a perfect 18-0 at home this season. Those 18 home wins are the most in 116 seasons of Carolina basketball — but the job is far from over. The last game of the ACC schedule is UNC’s annual trip to Durham. Duke is looking to […]
As we enter the final week of ACC play, a lot of things have solidified. Seeding is coming into picture, as well as who is and isn’t making the ACC Tournament. Team’s placements on the bubble or safely in the tournament are similarly becoming clearer, at least for most — for some it is just […]
This weekend, the UNC men’s basketball team will make the famously short trip down to the road to Durham for round two of the annual rivalry clash against Duke. A couple weeks ago in Chapel Hill, the Tar Heels came away with a memorable victory, as a big comeback was capped off by Seth Trimble’s […]
Today’s video offers some wonderful old footage of Duke-UNC in the 1960 ACC Tournament. and in color, no less. At that point, of course, the tournament was still held in Reynolds Coliseum, which explains the red floor. This was Duke’s first year under Vic Bubas, the coach who really established Duke as a national power. […]
As the calendar flips to March, the margin for error has officially evaporated for teams clinging to the NCAA Tournament’s ever-shrinking bubble. While the heavyweights at the top like Duke, UConn, Arizona, Michigan, and possibly Florida have largely turned the race for No. 1 seeds into a private invitational, the real drama is unfolding in […]
In the modern era, with NIL and instant transfers, it’s pretty easy for a coach to win in Year 1. Well, at the top of the sport, that is. When you get down to lower levels, what you find is that a) you don’t have the NIL resources that bigger schools have, and b) players […]
Duke (East), Michigan (Midwest), Arizona (West), and UConn (South) remain the four No. 1 seeds in the first bracket of the Month of Madness, but that seed line is just about the only stable one at the moment. And even it may not remain so, given how Florida (in particular), Michigan State, and Houston are […]
Game Summary: The first half started well, Ven Lubin scored and Darrion Williams hit 3 3PT shots. Able came in and hit another one putting the Wolfpack ahead 14-13 at the 13.20 mark. But then Coach Scheyer yelled, “don’t forget to play defense”, and from that point Duke closed the half 34-16. Duke’s Dame Sarr […]
No change in the top three, as Duke, Arizona, and Michigan had dominant 2-0 weeks where they beat strong competition. The Blue Devils rolled past Virginia, the Wildcats clobbered Kansas, and the Wolverines romped past Illinois 84-70 on the road. Below them, UConn and Florida impressed in the battle for the fourth 1-seed, with the […]
Arizona men’s basketball’s dominant win over Kansas Saturday was enough to keep the Wildcats at No. 2 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25. Duke leads the rankings, followed by Arizona, Michigan, UConn and Florida. Arizona received four first-place votes, with the other 55 going to the Blue Devils. Only seven points separate Arizona and […]
On February 15th, then-#21 UNC went to Durham and outplayed then-#11 Duke, to that point undefeated in ACC play, for about 37 out of 40 game minutes, but those 3 minutes, a 13-0 Duke run to end the first half, proved to be too much to overcome in a game where the Heels didn’t shoot […]
Fresh off a big win against Virginia, Duke has to turn it around very quickly to play NC State in Raleigh. We preview that game along with some other nuggets on DBR Bites #148. Duke has had some stinkers in Raleigh against the Wolfpack, but they’re hoping to buck that trend. NC State has a […]
Outside the top 75 of KenPom, Risk to Miss the ACCT 18. Georgia Tech (Prev: 18, 2-14): The Yellow Jackets lost their 10th straight ACC game, this time in Atlanta vs. FSU. They have also lost 13 of 14 with that inexplicable win over NC State in Raleigh in there. As the only 2-win team […]
Beating UNC is great but never easy, and so it went in Chapel Hill on Sunday night as the Tar Heels upset Duke, 74-69. This was a close game throughout and with just 3:51 to go, it was tied 60-60. UNC made the winning plays down the stretch, outscoring Duke by 5 points. It wasn’t […]
Duke has had a banner year to date, and a big part of why it’s been so great is the defense. And there’s a lot to that. Caleb Foster and Isaiah Evans have vastly improved as defenders. Pat Ngongba is seriously underrated as a defender. And of course, Maliq Brown is a brilliant defender who […]
We thought Virginia was better than that. Whatever else we might have thought, we never thought that Duke would have a 28-point lead on a good Virginia team. And winning 77-51? Not what we expected – not at all. But that’s what happened as Duke wrapped up the #1 seed for the ACC Tournament. And […]
While the membership of the top 16 in today’s NCAA Men’s Tournament bracket remains the same as what the Selection Committee revealed last Saturday, there has been some shuffling outside of a top line that remains stable—with Duke, Michigan, Arizona, and UConn your four No. 1 seeds in that order. This week’s results have led […]
Duke bounced back from a last-second defeat at Clemson with a solid 80-52 win that clinched at least a share of the regular-season ACC championship. The Seminoles kept it close for the first half, down just 33-29 at the break. Duke dominated the third quarter, 22-11, and the fourth quarter as well, 25-12. Toby Fournier […]
Since December, there may not have been a college basketball team hotter than Duke. Head coach Kara Lawson and the Blue Devils had won 17-straight games dating back to Dec. 7, clawing back into the AP Poll after an embarrassing 3-6 record to start the season. Given the height of their impressive peak, not many […]
Way back when, Dean Smith seemed to have plateaued as a coach, while an ascendent Mike Kryzewski took Duke to five straight Final Fours, three title games, and two national titles. “Dean must go!“ talk dominated UNC fan discussions, with the occasional flying object in support of arguments totally based in sound logic. In other […]
What can you say after a game like Duke had against Notre Dame but: wow. The numbers, the history…it’s all staggering. This was the worst loss for Notre Dame in over 100 years….128 to be exact. Think about that for a minute. The only worse loss Notre Dame has ever suffered was in the freaking […]
There all all sorts of records in college basketball that are outstanding achievements — whether that be individual or team achievements. For example, going into Tuesday Notre Dame had won 6 games in a row at home against the number one team in the country — a streak dating back to a historic upset of […]
The results of Saturday’s bracket preview show had barely cooled off before they were made nearly irrelevant by actual games. Sure, you knew that two of the top teams were guaranteed to take losses, with Arizona traveling to Houston and Michigan meeting Duke in Washington, D.C. And indeed, the Blue Devils’ win over the Wolverines […]
We’re understandably a bit prejudiced because we live in ACC territory – in other words, America from sea to shining sea — but the conversation has changed little as the 2025-26 season unfolded. Cameron Boozer has earned mention week in and week out as a favorite, if not the favorite, to win recognition as the […]
Saturday was arguably the most momentous day of the college basketball season thus far—both on and off the court. Hours before Arizona won at Houston, Duke beat Michigan, and Iowa State fell at BYU, the NCAA released its eighth annual in-season look at the Top 16 NCAA Tournament seeds. This oft-overlooked occasion is the only […]