The 25 Greatest Games in UNC Basketball History: No. 11 - The 1989 ACC Championship

Posted Jul 2, 2019
When the Tar Heels and Blue Devils met in the first game in Cameron, the storyline was that No. 1 Duke was a well-oiled winning machine and No. 13 North Carolina was still trying to fit its pieces together. The result? A wire-to-wire UNC blowout, 91-71, to hand Duke its first loss of the season. J.R. Reid hounded Danny Ferry into a woeful shooting night. (Tar Heel Blog)

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