Recap & Analysis: Duke 69 UNC 53

Posted Mar 10, 2013
This was a nightmare game from the very beginning. It was a convergence of Duke playing as well as they possibly could in the opening minutes and UNC coming out tight then panicked went things turned sour early. Throw in some questionable calls/no-calls not going UNC's way and the recipe for disaster was mixed and baking in the oven by the first TV timeout. (Tar Heel Blog)

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