No. 1 Duke hosted senior night to specially honor National Player of the Year and then-ACC all-time scoring leader J.J. Redick and two-time National Defensive Player of the Year Sheldon Williams.

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.

As long as Duke and North Carolina play each other twice a year, there will never be an argument for the most intense rivalry in college basketball. NCAA college basketball writer Andy Katz ra ...

UNC leaves in one direction, while Duke stays put, the slack on its schedule tightening, as hoops' greatest rivalry delivers once more in a way -- after this season -- we should never have to see ...

North Carolina owns bragging rights over Duke in several other categories, as well. The Tar Heels have six national championships compared to Duke’s five, 51 NCAA Tournament appearances to Duke’s 44, ...

While UNC has reached 18 Final Fours, Duke has reached 15. Eight miles apart on Tobacco Road, the rivalry is real. Since 1920, UNC and Duke have played each other at least once every year.

This opinion of mine doesn't mean that I regard the Duke-North Carolina rivalry as nothing more than an over-hyped, over-analyzed match between two schools that I could honestly care less about.