With Duke and UNC trending in opposite directions, you had questions before the first meeting of the rivals this season on Saturday.
Highland School (Va.) five-star Nate Ament was in Knoxville on Tuesday night. The 6-foot-9, 185-pound forward, a longtime Duke basketball offer holder who now ranks No. 4 overall on the 247Sports 2025 Composite, watched the visiting No. 12-ranked Kentucky Wildcats defeat the No. 8 Tennessee Volunteers, 78-73.
The Duke Blue Devils (18-2, 10-0 ACC) will attempt to extend a 14-game winning streak when they host the North Carolina Tar Heels (13-9, 6-4 ACC) on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at Cameron Indoor
Cooper Flagg heads into his first meeting with rival UNC on Saturday leading Duke in scoring, rebounds, assists, steals and blocked shots.
Seth Trimble, considered UNC’s most effective defender, missed games after a concussion and has had a double-double in each of the past two games.
North Carolina coach Hubert Davis chose to downplay the significance of his team's Saturday showdown at No. 2 Duke following the Tar Heels' dispiriting 73-65 loss at Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. The defeat was UNC's third in its last four games and raises the stakes of the upcoming rivalry game for a team that is scrambling to assemble an NCAA Tournament resume.
If you drew up the seed list for the NCAA Tournament, the Tar Heels might be an 11. ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi had North Carolina down as an 11-seed on Tuesday morning — hours before the Tar Heels lost at Pitt, 73-65.
As third-year head coach Jon Scheyer and his crew prepare the No. 2-ranked Blue Devils (18-2, 10-0 ACC) for their home showdown against the struggling archrival UNC Tar Heels (13-9, 6-4 ACC) at 6:30 p.m. ET Saturday (ESPN), here's a look at the Blue Devils' season stat leaders:
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What is going on with the North Carolina Tar Heels? The once-proud program, one of the few true blue bloods in college basketball, lost once again on Tuesday ni