No. 9 Duke (24-6, 15-4 ACC) closes the regular season on Saturday, taking on No. 7 North Carolina (24-6, 16-3 ACC) on March 9. The rivalry game tips off at 6:30 p.m., broadcast on ESPN.
Saturday marks the 262nd meeting in the history of the Duke-North Carolina rivalry.
This will be the 50th time the Blue Devils and Tar Heels have clashed as top-10 teams. The record in those matchups is 25-24, in favor of UNC, with an average score of UNC 77.1, Duke 76.2.
The last 100 games in the series favor Duke, 51-49. In the past 100 meetings, both programs have been ranked in the top-10 38 times, with North Carolina holding a 20-18 edge.
The all-time series favors the Tar Heels, 144-117, with Duke leading 56-51 in Durham and 47-39 in Cameron Indoor Stadium, where the Blue Devils and Tar Heels have split the past eight meetings
1st Meeting:
- Carolina defeated the Blue Devils, 93-84, in Chapel Hill on Feb. 3. Harrison Ingram earned co-ACC Player-ofthe-Week honors after his 21-point, 13-rebound, 4-steal performance vs. Duke. He made a career-high five three-pointers.
About Duke
- Duke is the only team to rank among the top four ACC statistical leaders in both scoring offense (2nd/80.2 points per game) and scoring defense (3rd/66.7 points allowed per game).
- The Blue Devils lead the ACC in scoring margin (+13.6), field goal percentage (.485), 3-point field goal percentage (.380) and assists (15.6 per game).
- Jeremy Roach has scored 20-plus points four times this season and 12 times during his career, including a team-high 21 points in Monday’s win at NC State.
- Among ACC leaders, Kyle Filipowski ranks 10th in scoring (16.5 ppg), seventh in rebounding (8.1 rpg), fifth in blocked shots (1.6 bpg) and fifth in field goal percentage (.507).
- Tyrese Proctor ranks second in ACC in assist/turnover ratio (2.72), and has 24 assists with just eight turnovers in his last five games.
- In conference play, Mark Mitchell is shooting 60% from the field and 44% from 3-point range, averaging 13.2 points and 6.9 rebounds against ACC opponents.
About UNC
- North Carolina is the highest scoring offense in the ACC and 26th in the nation, averaging 81.5 points per contest.
- The Tar Heels rank eighth in the country with a conference-high 41.0 rebounds per game.
- RJ Davis is the ninth-leading scorer in the nation with an ACC-best 21.5 points per contest.
- UNC has clinched at least a share of the ACC regular-season championship, the Tar Heels’ 33rd. UNC has won the regular-season title outright 21 previous times and shared the title 11 times.
- The Tar Heels are 7-2 on the road this season (all in ACC play). It is the second time in three seasons head coach Hubert Davis has led UNC to at least seven ACC road wins (7-3 in 2021-22).
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