Carolina-Duke rivalry

Achievements By Season (1985-2007)

Football

The football rivalry has been less intense recently due to the fact that Duke does not typically field competitive football teams (the Blue Devils have had only one winning season since tying for the ACC title in 1989). North Carolina has won 17 of the last 18 meetings with Duke, and leads the series (North Carolina claims a 54-36-4 lead). Nonetheless there is some tradition behind the rivalry. In the 1920s Duke began appearing as the last game of the North Carolina football season with some regularity Virginia being the other team with that spot (see the North Carolina Media Guide [cite web
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Other Sports

The rivalry between Duke and North Carolina has spilled over into other arenas. Beginning in 2001, the rivalry has been strengthened by the creation of the Carlyle Cup. This cup is given each year to the school that has the most combined head-to-head wins against the other school in all of the shared varsity sports. UNC has claimed the cup 4 times, winning in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2008. Duke has won the cup 3 times, in 2001, 2003, and 2004. UNC and Duke tied for the cup in 2007. [cite web
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Duke and North Carolina have also developed a strong women's college basketball rivalry since the 1990s as Duke and North Carolina field two of the strongest women's basketball teams in the nation. Duke made four Women's Final Four appearances in 1999, 2002, 2003, and 2006. North Carolina won its first NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship in 1994, and made three Women's Final Four appearances in 1994, 2006, and 2007.

Twenty four students from the two schools got together from January 14-16, 2006 in order to attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous game of basketball ever recorded. The game set a new world record at 57 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds with Duke winning the game 3699-3444. All $60,000 raised from the marathon benefited the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, an organization which helps children with life-threatening illnesses develop successful life skills through basketball. [cite web
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School Newspapers

As a tradition, one day prior to a Duke-North Carolina basketball game, "The Chronicle", Duke's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title "The Daily Tar Hole". Contained within are fake news stories poking fun at "The Daily Tar Heel" and the North Carolina Tar Heels. "The Daily Tar Heel" typically publishes former columnist Ian Williams' "Insider's guide to hating Duke" for the two basketball match-ups each year. There is a longstanding agreement that if Duke wins, "The Daily Tar Heel's" masthead is printed in Duke's royal blue, and if North Carolina wins, "The Chronicle's" masthead is painted Carolina blue. The losing school's paper also has to put the other school's logo in a conspicuous location and claim that the winning school is "still the best." [cite web
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quote = So this is my request, boys of basketball: Tonight, I not only want you to win, I want Krzyzewski calling home to his mother with tears in his eyes. I want Alaa Abdelnaby to throw up brick after brick. I want Rick Fox to take Christian Laettner to the hoop so many times that poor Christian will be dazed on the bench with an Etch-a-Sketch and a box of Crayola Crayons. I want Bobby Hurley to trip on his shoelaces and fly into a fat alumnus from Wilmington! Send Thad and Lorna home with their blue tails between their legs! God bless them Tar Heel boys!
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