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    For The First Time In 76 Years!

    The 2019-20 Duke Basketball team accomplished something that no Duke Basketball team has accomplished since 1944 — end the season with a win over UNC. That’s the only previous time it’s happened in all the years of Duke Basketball. Ending the season with a win over UNC isn’t likely to happen again unless it’s for a national championship but that championship game would be a singularity that could rip a tear in the space-time continuum so we can’t have it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallcity View Post
    The 2019-20 Duke Basketball team accomplished something that no Duke Basketball team has accomplished since 1944 — end the season with a win over UNC. That’s the only previous time it’s happened in all the years of Duke Basketball. Ending the season with a win over UNC isn’t likely to happen again unless it’s for a national championship but that championship game would be a singularity that could rip a tear in the space-time continuum so we can’t have it.
    I approve of this type of thinking. We should do this more often. Post season is stressful anyways.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallcity View Post
    The 2019-20 Duke Basketball team accomplished something that no Duke Basketball team has accomplished since 1944 — end the season with a win over UNC. That’s the only previous time it’s happened in all the years of Duke Basketball. Ending the season with a win over UNC isn’t likely to happen again unless it’s for a national championship but that championship game would be a singularity that could rip a tear in the space-time continuum so we can’t have it.
    I mentioned this in another thread. Didn't know it had been done before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallcity View Post
    The 2019-20 Duke Basketball team accomplished something that no Duke Basketball team has accomplished since 1944 — end the season with a win over UNC. That’s the only previous time it’s happened in all the years of Duke Basketball. Ending the season with a win over UNC isn’t likely to happen again unless it’s for a national championship but that championship game would be a singularity that could rip a tear in the space-time continuum so we can’t have it.
    I think you're absolutely right hallcity.The two fan bases and the whole state of North Carolina couldn't stand the strain. The state would probably break off into the Atlantic Ocean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallcity View Post
    The 2019-20 Duke Basketball team accomplished something that no Duke Basketball team has accomplished since 1944 — end the season with a win over UNC. That’s the only previous time it’s happened in all the years of Duke Basketball. Ending the season with a win over UNC isn’t likely to happen again unless it’s for a national championship but that championship game would be a singularity that could rip a tear in the space-time continuum so we can’t have it.
    Has UNC ever ended their season with a win over Duke? (real question; I haven't looked up the answer)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kedsy View Post
    Has UNC ever ended their season with a win over Duke? (real question; I haven't looked up the answer)
    That could happen in the future, if uNC had a postseason ban, plus beat Duke in the regular season finale. As we all know by now, the NCAA is never going to let that happen.

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    By the way, 1944 was the year of the now famous secret game with what was then North Carolina College but the Duke team that lost that game was from the Med School rather than the official Duke basketball team.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kedsy View Post
    Has UNC ever ended their season with a win over Duke? (real question; I haven't looked up the answer)
    I am sure it has happened, but it has also been at least 75 years since.

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    A successful season

    Duke finished its season with a 13 point win over Carolina, and they finished theirs with a 28-point beat down against Syracuse. Nothing could be finer.

    And speaking of the secret game, every Duke basketball fan should read Scott Ellsworth's book, even though it was the wartime Duke medical school team rather than the varsity:

    https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Game-W...6644098&sr=8-1

    And speaking some more about the secret game, in 1965 St. Augustine High and Jesuit High played their own version, which helped desegregate high school basketball in New Orleans.

    https://www.nola.com/300/article_9a2...915a46685.html

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    1971 was close

    Quote Originally Posted by Kedsy View Post
    Has UNC ever ended their season with a win over Duke? (real question; I haven't looked up the answer)
    In 1971 Carolina finished its season with a victory over GTech in the finals of the NIT - Bill Chamberlain was the star of that game, I believe. And Rich Yunkas was Tech's big scorer that season. Two nights earlier the Heels had beaten Duke in the semifinals. We then lost the consolation game to St. Bonaventure. At least that's my best recollection.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallcity View Post
    By the way, 1944 was the year of the now famous secret game with what was then North Carolina College but the Duke team that lost that game was from the Med School rather than the official Duke basketball team.
    Did the pre-cheats hang a banner?

    [redacted] them and the horses they rode in on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kedsy View Post
    Has UNC ever ended their season with a win over Duke? (real question; I haven't looked up the answer)

    If the internet has not failed me, their last game in both 1940 and 1945 was a win over Duke in the Southern Conference final, followed by no further tournament.

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    Duke and Carolina have met for a NCAA title in a team sport exactly once, in women’s soccer.

    They had Mia Hamm and Kristine Lilly. We had a bunch of good players who overachieved to reach the championship game.

    You can imagine how it went.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jaytoc View Post
    In 1971 Carolina finished its season with a victory over GTech in the finals of the NIT - Bill Chamberlain was the star of that game, I believe. And Rich Yunkas was Tech's big scorer that season. Two nights earlier the Heels had beaten Duke in the semifinals. We then lost the consolation game to St. Bonaventure. At least that's my best recollection.
    I did not remember Duke vs UNC in the NIT. Fuzzy teenage years I suppose.

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