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One of college basketball’s preeminent rivalries is the Tobacco Road clash between North Carolina and Duke, two institutions of the sport and — recently — two programs in the early stages of new eras with relatively inexperienced coaches at the helm.
The Tar Heels and Blue Devils will play at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday night for the first of two regular season meetings. Though they currently sit in seventh and sixth in the ACC, respectively, both teams are just two games in the loss column behind conference leaders Clemson. That being said, this matchup is about much more than conference standing.
This is the first meeting between North Carolina and Duke since the Tar Heels’ dramatic 81-77 win in the 2022 Final Four — the final game in the career of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and the only time to date the rivals have met in the NCAA tournament.
Tip-off between UNC and Duke is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. ET. The game will be broadcast on ESPN (click or tap here to stream). Click or tap here for live scoring, play by play and statistics during the game.
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North Carolina: The Tar Heels are led in minutes and scoring by largely the same group that led them to the national title game last year. Armando Bacot leads in both points and rebounds at 17 and 11 per game, along with 16 points per game by from the backcourt duo of Caleb Love and RJ Davis.
Duke: The Blue Devils are anchored in the middle by freshman center Kyle Flipowski, who leads the team in scoring and crashing the boards (15 points and nine rebounds per game). The seven-footer has formed a two-man game with guard Jeremy Roach, who averages 12 points and just over three assists per outing.
Alberto Camargo is the lead reporter for NCAA men’s and women’s soccer. He has worked at the USF Oracle and the Knoxville News-Sentinel. His writing has appeared in several newspapers around the USA Today South Region. Follow him on Twitter @albaretoe.
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