Look what I found! The 82-50 game.

Things I remember: Nolan faking a crossover so hard that LD II fell on his keister, Jordan Davidson stripping John Henson as Henson tried to dunk in the closing minutes, and Duke scoring more in the first half than UNC did in the entire game. Oh, and Scheyer being upset because he or a teammate gave up a 3 to UNC at the end of the first half.
 
what a great game. But what do you expect when one team is 35-5, 13-3 T-1st in a conference, National Champions and had 7 future NBA players on the roster (would have been 8 if Scheyer hadn't gotten that eye injury) and the other is 20-17 (after starting 11-3) 5-10, 10th in conference, NIT runner-ups and led by Larry Drew II? Well, maybe not a 32 point margin--but Duke should have beaten them handily. And this game they did what they should have done. Very satisfying.
 
what a great game. But what do you expect when one team is 35-5, 13-3 T-1st in a conference, National Champions and had 7 future NBA players on the roster (would have been 8 if Scheyer hadn't gotten that eye injury) and the other is 20-17 (after starting 11-3) 5-10, 10th in conference, NIT runner-ups and led by Larry Drew II? Well, maybe not a 32 point margin--but Duke should have beaten them handily. And this game they did what they should have done. Very satisfying.
Small nugget that I have always looked back fondly on - during the pre-game show, current coach of the Hated Heels Hubert Davis, after noting that the team was on a two-game winning streak, picked the Heels to win. At halftime he was shown ripping up his notes and tossing them aside. Wonderful stuff.
 
There was a brief period of time where the iTunes store allowed you to purchase recordings of sporting events for download. This game was the first and only purchase I ever made, and it still exists on my apple account and my very outdated PC version of the iTunes application. Best $2.99 I ever spent.
 
There was a brief period of time where the iTunes store allowed you to purchase recordings of sporting events for download. This game was the first and only purchase I ever made, and it still exists on my apple account and my very outdated PC version of the iTunes application. Best $2.99 I ever spent.
I bought three games on iTunes: this one, 1998 uNC at Duke, and 2012 Duke at uNC.
 
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