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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 2071547, member: 652"]
Duke-UNC is the Ohio State-Michigan of College Football rivalry.
It gets over-hyped but the games live up to the hype.
The stat that impressed me is that JB-John Thompson have the record for ranked vs. ranked coaching matchups at 29.
Coach K and Roy Williams are up to 26 and that includes games from when Roy was at Kansas.
JB has the top 2 matchups until Roy-K passes them. JB-JT 29 times, and JB-Jim Calhoun 28 times.

Every Duke-UNC matchup since 1980 has featured one ranked team.
It is the best rivalry in college hoops. Louisville-Kentucky is 2nd IMO.
There aren't many real rivalries because of one and dones. It is now more coaching rivalries.

When the Big East started in 1980- in the 80's Georgetown-Syracuse became an elite rivalry because of the new Big East getting all the publicity and coverage from ESPN and CBS. The game was the rivalry of the new league. UNC-Duke was still an elite rivalry. What hurts GU-SU is that Georgetown doesn't have a fanbase. It is tiny all it is are alums and the school is tiny. The people in DC are Maryland/Virginia fans as well.

SU has non-alum fans in CNY. Georgetown doesn't. UNC-Duke is miles better than SU-GU.
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