Seriously, is there any better sporting event than UNC - Duke at Cameron?

[taterguy]

No luxury suites

No Jumbotrons

All the good seats go to passionate students instead of fat-cat alums

Two really talented basketball teams that really don't like each other.

Color me psyched.

If you've ever been to one of these epic clashes live you know what I'm talking about. Watching it on the tube just doesn't do it justice.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

1. Oh yeah...

Been to Cameron a few times, but I'm not wealthy or connected (or a Duke student) for a Duke-Carolina showdown, but I have to say that it's one of the most amazing sports environments. Part of it is that Cameron is a very small venue, with room for about 9,300 people, and it gets incredibly hot as in 'oven hot.'

Tonight's game and my obsession with Lost will have to fight it out...

[underpants]

42. Okay tell me

I have heard from other people who have been there and the some sportsreporters who dare tell the story

That the side of the court we don't see on TV (across from the "Crazies") is the big donors/alums as well as some profs. Is that true?

Apparently Coach K's office in the top of Cameron is harder to get into that the Pope's living quarters--very tight security and complete secrecy about all preparation (including practice)

:shrug:

BTW I despise Duke basketball.

[taterguy]

45. Duke Students get all the seats in the lower level

The only exception is that they give the visiting teams a few rows behind their bench.

They only started doing that when Duke Students would chant what the opposing coach was saying during timeouts.

[motely36]

2. I'll be watching

and rooting for Duke!

That is once Dayton defeats Xavier :)

[taterguy]

4. Nixon went to Duke. Paul Wellstone went to UNC

You've just outed yourself as a Freeper

:P :P :P

[motely36]

5. blah, blah, blah

:eyes:

[taterguy]

6. NC State is the blah school in North Carolina

Duke and UNC have lovely campuses.

Kind of ironic since State has a great architecture program

[mnhtnbb]

7. Liddy Dole went to Duke, too.

[KamaAina]

12. Which would explain why Coach (R) threw fundraisers for her

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Go Heels, and whoever else plays Puke!

[taterguy]

16. Coach (R) is a Republican

Meanwhile the icon of UNC basketball Dean Smith is a staunch progressive. He even set aside the rivalry to help Duke Poli Sci Prof David Price get elected to Congress.

[KamaAina]

19. Jim Calhoun of present-day (tournament) rival UConn is a Dem, too

Suck it, Coach (R)!

[Blue_Tires]

3. excellent - you've just described the border war

and i've also known plenty of small colleges that get rockin for their rivals

[mnhtnbb]

8. Smashing Duke at the Dean Dome is A-OK.--but we'll take humiliating them on their home court.

:applause:

[taterguy]

20. Pop quiz: Who was the star the first time UNC smashed Duke at the Dean Dome?

If you can't answer you're not a real fan

[mnhtnbb]

38. Humiliation completed. Answer not required.

[taterguy]

39. You are obviously not a true fan or you would just answer

Looser

[mnhtnbb]

40. I'll take a wild guess and say Kenny Smith. I can't help it if I've adopted the Tar Heels

only recently.

I'm really a Bruin fan from the Walton days under John Wooden at Pauley Pavilion . Glory days.
Bill and his friend, Greg Lee, were good friends with one of my roommates.

So, Dukie, use your spell check next time you want to call people out, because you obviously
want to revise history.

Check the facts on the basketball rivalry between Duke and UNC. The Tar Heels lead in every category.

Duke Blue Devils–North Carolina Tar Heels
Duke Bluedevils Logo North Carolina Tar Heels Logo
Men's Basketball Regular Season History
First Meeting January 24, 1920
First Result UNC 36 - Duke 25
Latest Meeting February 11, 2009
Latest Result UNC 101 - Duke 87
Next Meeting March 8, 2009
Largest Victory UNC: 37 points (1921)
Duke: 35 points (1964)
Current Streak UNC 2
All-time Series UNC leads 129-97
Men's Basketball Conference Success
ACC Regular Season Championships

* North Carolina - 26 (1st)
* Duke - 18 (2nd)

ACC Tournament Championships

* North Carolina - 17 (1st)
* Duke - 16 (2nd)

Men's Basketball National Success
NCAA Final Fours

* North Carolina - 17 (1st all-time)
* Duke - 14 (3rd all-time)

NCAA Tournament Championships

* North Carolina - 4 (4th all-time)
* Duke - 3 (tied for 5th all-time)

[taterguy]

48. Bzzzzzt, the correct answer is Steve Hale

Dude dropped 28 points on the Dookies in the first game ever played in the Dean Dome

It was a thing of beauty.

You shoulda been there.

[Mudoria]

9. Go Heels!

[Bake]

10. I'll love it as long as Duke gets humiliated.

I love to see Coach K sitting on the bench with his head in his hands ... like he did last week when Wake Forest beat them like rented mules.

Bake

[taterguy]

11. Wake beat them on a lucky last second shot

Definitely a beating but it didn't exactly rise to the level of rented mule status

[11 Bravo]

44. Yeah, it was Clemson that treated the Dookies like a red-headed stepchild.

[Iggo]

13. Just as nauseating as Yankees/Red Sox.

Maybe if people would just stfu about it, I could watch the coverage and see what's so goddam special about it.

[taterguy]

27. Public university vs. school named after a tobacco monopoly

One school represents everything that's good and great about this land. Achieving all that you can no matter what your socio-economic status is.

The other school represents greed and poisoning your fellow man, and a bunch of spoiled brats that weren't quite smart enough to get into the Ivy League, no matter how rich their parents were.

(Ok, that is the alcohol talking, it's really not quite that simple)

[Iggo]

29. Oh, yeah, I get that.

UCLA/USC is public school against rich kids. And it's a great rivalry...locally.

It's just that wall to wall coverage of every-fucking-body and his goddam mother on the sports channels telling me that this is the greatest thing since someone invented great things...well, that just gets on my nerves is all.

I guess I'm just a hater...lol.

[tigereye]

41. a good friend of mine went to Duke - she's not a snob, though

I seem to recall that she didn't like it much.



I still like to see Duke get beat, though. I guess I tend to pay attention more for the cool writers that reside there, though.

[crimsonblue]

14. the UNC-Duke rivalry ain't got shit on the KU-Mizzery Rivalry

Ours is the only one based on an actual war.

[taterguy]

17. Not much of a rivalry if only one team is decent in hoops

For classic rivalries both teams have to be really good

Besides, most of the players from those teams aren't from Kansas or Missouri anyway

[crimsonblue]

21. and most of the players for Duke or UNC are from North Carolina?

Rivalry isn't made by the quality of the teams. It is made by the hatred of the teams and the quality of games played. Every year with the Border War, you can throw record aside.

[taterguy]

22. Quality of the games is determined by quality of the teams

Lots of Junior High basketball games are close, but who would want to watch one unless you're related to one of the players.

[crimsonblue]

23. quality of games in a rivalry is determined by hatred for the other team

it elevates your play. your home crowd becomes the 6th man. The Dean Dome is anything but an awesome basketball venue.

[taterguy]

24. That's why my OP says Cameron

:eyes:

[crimsonblue]

25. I'll take the Cathedral of Basketball anyday over Cameron. n/t

[taterguy]

26. People who have nothing turn to religion because they're bitter

That must be why you call a gym a cathedral

:sarcasm: in case anyone couldn't tell

[tekisui]

15. I'm looking for a place to watch it.

I don't have cable.:-(

Do I have to go to a bar?

[taterguy]

18. It's on Raycom

Should be on broadcast in NC depending on where you live

[Zomby Woof]

28. Go 'Heels!

[KitchenWitch]

30. Go Tarheels!

man I hate Coach K.

[sasquatch]

31. UD arena, as much as I hate to admit it, is one helluva arena too

[motely36]

32. Yep!

and they used it to beat Xavier tonight!

:bounce:

[sasquatch]

34. They pummeled the X tonight

[sasquatch]

33. Go UNC, fight for Dean Smith's honor

[tekisui]

35. Carolina up 5, 7:41 to go!!!

[taterguy]

36. What's the score now?

:shrug:

[Mudoria]

37. 101-87 Nice to shut the Cameron Crazies up..

[Deep13]

43. Championship lumberjacking at Cherry Springs, PA. nt

[Threedifferentones]

46. Yeah, if youre DICKY V or ONE OF HIS FANS, BABY

But if you realize college basketball is meaningless before March, not so much.

[taterguy]

49. I despise Dickie V and I don't even get ESPN

But like I said in the OP, if you've ever experienced it live you know it's not meaningless

[enigmatic]

47. yes

http://www.seasonofchampions.ca/2009brier/