Duke vs UNC

Duke and North Carolina battling in the NCAA Tournament for the first time? In Mike Krzyzewski's final season? With a spot in the championship game on the ...

9:25 p.m. — And now Theo John has three fouls. Duke and North Carolina battling in the NCAA Tournament for the first time? Here's one of the makes, courtesy of Leaky Black: Duke and North Carolina have missed 11 of their first 14 field goal attempts. Villanova on Saturday. Mike Krzyzewski clearly wanted an offensive foul to be called on Armando Bacot, but John appeared to make contact with Bacot first. Duke has won six of its last seven games since that tough loss, including a 78-69 win over Arkansas in the Elite Eight. College basketball fans can watch Duke vs. UNC is hoping it can end the Coach K retirement tour after impressively navigating its way through the East Region of the NCAA Tournament bracket. He didn't put much weight on that foot initially, but he's moving a little bit better now. Theo John picks up his fourth foul. In Mike Krzyzewski's final season?

The Blue Devils and Tar Heels are set to square off in one of the biggest college basketball games of all-time and have never met in the NCAA tournament.

Television ratings for the game are expected to be massive. Saturday night’s matchup between the Blue Devils and the Tar Heels will now tip off at 8:51 pm ET. It will be the second game of this year's Final Four—the first being a Kansas victory over Villanova. Duke and North Carolina are set to do battle for the first time in the NCAA tournament, but fans will have to wait just a little longer to see the two squads tip off against one another.

No. 8 North Carolina defeated No. 2 Duke 81-77 in the nightcap of the men's Final Four. The Tar Heels advance to the national championship where they will ...

North Carolina is out to a 10-6 lead after seven minutes, despite shooting just 25 percent from the field (and 1 of 7 from 3). That’s because Duke is shooting 33.3 percent and committed the first five fouls of the game. It's 24-all with 5:17 to go in the first half and now two Blue Devils big men are in foul trouble. R.J. Davis leads the way for UNC with 10 points, shooting 2-for-3 from deep.Duke leads 22-18 with 7:51 left in the first half.OK, now we're having fun in NOLARJ Davis is a bucket: 10 points in 12 minutes on 4-of-5 shooting. Love has all six of his points in the final 4:29 of the half after missing his first five shots. Theo John has racked up FOUR first-half fouls.Duke clings to a slight 28-26 lead with 3:54 left in the first half.Theo John just picked up his fourth personal foul. He's up to 21 rebounds but missed two tries in the paint for the lead and the Tar Heels missed a third shot on that same possession. In the first half of his Final Four debut, Banchero has drilled a pair of 3-pointers and thrown down a Shaq-style slam. He has 10 points and six boards and it's 34-all with 26 seconds left in the half. He's up to 10 points and 18 rebounds in this game, good for his national-best 30th double-double of the season. He missed his first five shots of the game, didn't score a point for the first 15 minutes. He'll leave college basketball with 101 victories as a head coach in the NCAA Tournament.In his first season as North Carolina's head coach, Davis spoiled Mike Krzyzewski's final home game, then ended his career with an 81-77 thriller of a win over Duke tonight in the Final Four. In those two games against the Blue Devils, Love had 22 points, five rebounds and five assists at Cameron Indoor, then 28 points (all in the final 25 minutes) and drilled the dagger 3-pointer with 25 seconds to go in the national semifinals. How North Carolina beat Duke to advance to the national title gameNo. 8 North Carolina defeated No. 2 Duke 81-77 in the nightcap of the men's Final Four. The Tar Heels advance to the national championship where they will take on No. 1 Kansas. Caleb Love led the way for North Carolina with 28 points.

A closer look at the two Final Four games on Saturday's NCAA Tournament slate.

Maybe Caleb Daniels steps up for Nova and Jay Wright rides five or six guys for 35+ minutes with success, but I'm skeptical the injury doesn't tilt this one heavily in favor of the Jayhawks. Pick: Kansas -4.5 However, it may just be this simple: Villanova, already thin on depth, is even more razor-thin after losing second-leading scorer and minutes leader Justin Moore to an Achilles injury in the Elite Eight. KU has the depth advantage, and it's pretty close to a draw in terms of talent. TBS, March Madness Live: It's impossible to boil down any matchup to one specific injury or facet of the game ... in most cases. Likely to be a close one -- almost certainly will be a close one -- but Blue Devils by a field goal feels like the number. TBS, March Madness Live: Duke and North Carolina split the regular-season series, but UNC played spoiler in its win beyond winning on Duke's home court. And yet ... our experts are close to a consensus on who will advance into Monday's national championship game.

Duke and North Carolina's first ever matchup in the men's NCAA tournament was always going to be historic. The fact that we finally got it in the Final Four ...

This Tar Heels team was in jeopardy of missing the NCAA tournament midway through the year after Duke beat them by 20 points on their home floor. Carolina’s Sweet 16 win over UCLA was convincing enough, but there were still some questions of whether this was a Final Four caliber team after easily advancing past No. 15 seed Saint Peter’s in the Elite Eight. At 6’10, 250 pounds, he hit pull-up threes, scored in the post, and showed dynamic driving ability. They knocked off No. 1 seed Baylor in the round of 32, but almost blew a 25-point lead before doing it. Trevor Keels was fouled and split his own free throws to keep Duke down two. Duke and North Carolina’s first ever matchup in the men’s NCAA tournament was always going to be historic. On UNC’s next possession, Caleb Love hit a ridiculous pull-up three-pointer to put the Heels up four. Duke’s Jeremy Roach drove down and scored a layup to cut the lead to two. Duke came down and found Keels for a three that missed, but Duke grabbed the offensive rebound, swung the ball to Wendell Moore, and saw him hit another go-ahead three. This was the biggest shot of the night. With UNC as a No. 8 seed and Duke struggling entering March, this matchup simply felt too good to be true. North Carolina beat Duke, 81-77, to punch their ticket to the national championship game.

NPR's Miles Parks speaks with author and University of North Carolina graduate Will Blythe about the Duke-UNC basketball rivalry ahead of their highly ...

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One of the most widely anticipated contests in Final Four history till take place in the second game from New Orleans Saturday night when arch-rivals Duke ...

Interestingly though, when UNC stunned Duke, 94-81, at Cameron Indoor back on March 5, the three-point shot wasn’t a weapon that really fueled that upset. In their upset wins over Baylor and UCLA, that number jumped to 44 percent and 47 percent, respectively. North Carolina’s surprise run to the Final Four has been fueled primarily by red-hot three-point shooting. The over has hit in the last six meetings between these two arch-rivals. We know this Carolina team can outplay this Duke team because we all saw it with our own eyes just a month ago. Duke lit up UNC in Chapel Hill on Feb. 5, shooting 57.6 percent from the field overall and racking up 87 points in a 20-point demolition of their Tobacco Road Rivals. The Tar Heels one-upped the Dukies a month later by hanging 94 on the Devils in Coach K’s last game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

This Tar Heels vs. Blue Devils game in the Final Four is the most anticipated national semifinal in NCAA Tournament history.

The fact is it's right here, right now — what a blessed bending of this year's bracket. It's almost like Duke will need to win two championship games in a three-day span to get K, and the program, a sixth national title. North Carolina colliding amid the cacophony in the Crescent City. You only get it for the first time one time. This is the biggest stage, the first time they've met in the NCAAs, and it's K's retirement in the balance. "We'd be foolish to let any other storylines play a part of how we're going to go out there and play." "I feel like that's when we play our best basketball, when the stage is bright, the lights are on. The task will be sizable, but if Carolina manages to beat Duke for a second consecutive time and end Krzyzewski's career in the process, that is for the ages. We're gonna have to play a great game, probably our best game of the year, to beat these guys." And I think when you have great kids and great players like Armando (Bacot) and Brady (Manek) that understand that what is real for us to have success on Saturday is our preparation, is our practice and how hard we play. So, for us, that puts us as the underdog and it gives us that chip on our shoulder that we need. So definitely just understanding that feeling, keeping (it) in the back of our minds every time we play." It was his last face-to-face with the horde of hacks prior to the game.

The Duke Blue Devils and UNC Tar Heels face off on Saturday in the Men's Final Four in the NCAA Tournament. We break down everything you need to know to ...

The Tar Heels are off to a good start in Year 1 of the Hubert Davis era and a victory over their rival in this spot would make him an instant coaching legend for UNC fans. North Carolina (28-9) is the closest to a Cinderella in the Final Four even as a blue blood, checking in as a No. 8 seed, and they defeated the No. 9 seed Marquette Golden Eagles 95-63, No. 1 Baylor Bears 93-86, No. 4 UCLA Bruins 73-66 and No. 15 Saint Peter’s Peacocks 69-49. The Blue Devils have a chance to send Mike Krzyzewski out a winner with a couple more victories. March Madness will be streamed in its entirety on NCAA.com, with subscriptions not necessary. Duke (32-6) is in the Final Four for the first time since they won it all in 2015 and to get here, they defeated the No. 15 seed Cal State Fullerton Titans 78-61, No. 7 Michigan State Spartans 85-76, No. 3 Texas Tech Red Raiders 78-73 and No. 4 Arkansas Razorbacks 78-69. Duke is a 4-point favorite at DraftKings Sportsbook. The point total sits at 151.

The Jayhawks and the Wildcats are underway in the first national semifinal. The Blue Devils and Tar Heels will play in the second game of the night.

Villanova needs to keep him from establishing post position so close to the basket when he returns in the second half. The game changed when McCormack picked up his second foul. But the Jayhawks didn’t force the ball to him, allowing them to find open three-point shooters and make seven of their first 10 from outside the arc.

Duke's loss to arch-rival North Carolina produced a startling scene and the end of Mike Krzyzewski's remarkable career.

But, as Krzyzewski said postgame in a reference to a famous Teddy Roosevelt quote, simply being in the arena is all he could have asked for. He may not want to get caught up in the history, but everyone else will, and they’ll remember this night for as long as people are talking about college basketball. Davis went from some perceiving him as a failure 20 games into his tenure to beating perhaps the sport’s greatest coach ever twice in a month in the two most-anticipated games of the season. Regardless of what happens in Monday’s championship game, this game and this moment will be the one remembered from this tournament forever. He was uninterested in discussing his career or his legacy or even the emotions of it all coming to an end. He stood waiting for the Carolina players to shake hands, which they eventually did after sprinting to celebrate with family and friends.

North Carolina won its second straight game over Duke, beating its greatest rival in their first NCAA Tournament meeting.

Coaches talk at times about how difficult it is to refocus quickly after a huge, emotional win, and this was one of the hugest and most emotional one could imagine. That mercurial duo needs a foundational piece next to them, and that's where Armando Bacot comes in—the North Carolina big man added his 30th double-double of the season, passing Tim Duncan and setting a new record for an ACC player. He deserves a mountain of the credit, as he empowered a less-than-traditional backcourt of Love and R. J. Davis to be themselves. In the second half, Caleb Love came alive for the Tar Heels, hitting a number of monster shots to keep North Carolina close. North Carolina is heading to the national championship to take on Kansas after defeating Duke 81-77 in the 2022 Final Four on Saturday night. And he set things up well for his successor, with Jon Scheyer bringing in the nation's top-ranked recruiting class, according to the 247Sports Composite.

The Sporting News has everything you need to watch the Duke-UNC rivalry in Saturday's Final Four matchup.

Duke vs. Duke vs. The Tar Heels, meanwhile, are playing some of their best ball, too. He also averages 51.0 percent field goal shooting and 53.3 percent from beyond the arc. What else is there to say about this game?

The Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tarheels meet in the Final Four of the 2022 NCAA Tournament. We've got everything you need on both teams ahead of ...

More possession plays in Duke’s favor and when you combine the Tar Heels’ style with the Blue Devils top-rated offense, the over is a good play. The Duke Blue Devils kept the Krzyzewski era going with a 78-69 victory over the Arkansas Razorbacks last weekend in the Elite Eight round. If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/MI/NJ/PA/WV/WY), 1-800-NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/NH), 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 1-877-770-STOP (7867) (LA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), call/text TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA).21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/LA/MI/NH/NJ/NY/OR/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. First round result: Won over Marquette, 96-63 Second round result: Won over Michigan State, 85-76 First round result: Won over CSUF, 78-61