Welcome to a special UNC-Duke edition of Tracking the Tar Heels.
Here’s what the Tar Heels (and Blue Devils) have been up to:
- Sports Editor Brandon Moree writes that UNC is getting set to play in the loud, intimidating Cameron Indoor Arena tonight.
- Senior Writer Kelly Parsons looks at the adversity Desmond Hubert has fought through to get to where he is today: in the starting lineup against Duke.
- The (Raleigh) News & Observer’s Luke DeCock writes that there are different stakes for UNC and Duke tonight, but the game is no less important.
- Magic moments have driven the rivalry, the News & Observer’s Laura Keeley and Andrew Carter write.
- Check out this Q&A with UNC alum Ian Williams, who wrote the famous DTH column Why I Hate Duke
- Last night, the UNC and Duke team managers played each other at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke won on a buzzer beater.
- ESPN’s Robbi Pickeral looks at what to watch for in the real game tonight.
- Duke’s Quinn Cook says it’ll be a dogfight between UNC and Duke forwards James Michael McAdoo and Mason Plumlee in the post, The (Durham) Herald-Sun’s Steve Wiseman writes.
- From the UNC perspective, coach Roy Williams is very concerned with how McAdoo will match up with Plumlee, as McAdoo is coming off a back injury, writes Harold Gutmann of the Herald-Sun.
- Last but not least, Andrew Jones of FOXSportsCarolinas.com argues that UNC-Duke is the greatest rivalry in sports.
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