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[QUOTE="Flacusian, post: 2071410, member: 264"]
Unfortunately the conference realignment phenomenon has had a profound impact on historic rivalries and as a result the answer to this question must be qualified by time. Nowhere has this had a more profound impact than on the dissolution of the Big East. Within a specific timeframe one could certainly advance the viewpoint that the Syracuse Georgetown rivalry was at the apex of the rivalry scale. Upon John Thompsons retirement and the downswing of the Georgetown program the Syracuse / Uconn rivalry began to ascend as the predominant rivalry in the Big East.

Since North Carolina and Duke have been rivals and the conference realignment did not alter that it would seem that they are perhaps unquestionably the biggest rivalry in the modern college basketball era.

For me personally, I just can't imagine a bigger and more intensely contested rivalry than the one that existed back during the heyday of the Big East when Syracuse and Georgetown features such bigger than life combatants as Pearl, Ewing, Coleman, Mourning , Reggie Williams, Sherm, etc...There was a genuine sense of vitriol and loathing which existed not only between the teams and coaches but extended in a palpable manner to the fanbases of each team as well. Those halcyon years of the Syracuse / Georgetown rivalry for me personally, represent the epitome of competitive intensity which elicited a level of enthusiasm, anticipation  and emotional investment that I don't think can be again attained.

For me... it was SO MUCH MORE...than a basketball game or a rivalry... as the game approached... it was EVERYTHING!
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