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The Duke–North Carolina Semifinal Is a Hoops Dream (And One Team’s Nightmare)

The stakes have never been this high for these bitter rivals … but 31 years ago, they almost were even bigger.

Sports Illustrated

Greg Cote: NCAA Final Four: Coach K on a ladder. Why is America rooting against the perfect ending?

MIAMI — There is one and only one perfect ending that can come out of this men’s NCAA Final Four, and it is Coach K up on a ladder just before midnight Monday, snipping pieces of the basketball net in his final game as Duke coach. (A falling tear will…

Miami Herald

The Biggest Question for Each Team Heading Into the Men’s Final Four

What could prove to be their downfall?The Final Four is just two days away! With four of the sport’s biggest brands convening in New Orleans and story lines galore around these outstanding matchups, it’s hard to wait until Saturday evening. Here are four big questions heading into those two games…

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Duke, UNC arrive in New Orleans and Final Four party begins ahead of historic meeting

NEW ORLEANS — It was a mostly quiet and gray Wednesday afternoon along Bourbon Street, the calm before the storm. No crowds packing the street between the sidewalks, at least not yet. No lines to get into the music joints or the bars, and plenty of room in the places…

Tribune News Service

Scott Fowler: Jay Bilas has thoughts on how much Duke-UNC in the Final Four really matters

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jay Bilas is a former Duke player, a current Charlotte resident and ESPN’s leading college basketball voice.

Tribune News Service

Purdue’s Jaden Ivey Announces He is Declaring for 2022 NBA Draft

The Boilermakers point guard is forgoing his final two collegiate years to go pro.

Sports Illustrated

The Best Wins and Most Infamous Games of the Duke-UNC Rivalry

Before these two meet in the Final Four, we’re looking back at their unmatched history.

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Super Seniors Are All Over the Men’s Final Four—and Making All the Difference

Given the opportunity for the rare five-year career, players like Brady Manek, Collin Gillespie and Remy Martin are playing a unique role this March.

Sports Illustrated

NC Governor Declares State as ‘Center of the College Basketball Universe’

With the Tar Heels and Blue Devils set to face-off in the Final Four, governor Roy Cooper signed a proclamation, and a few states may want a word.

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Bunkers, dread and drinking: The unspeakable anxiety of Duke-UNC in the Final Four

RALEIGH, N.C. — In the span of about an hour on Tuesday, in buildings about 10 miles apart, in rooms connected to the home courts where their basketball teams play, Hubert Davis and Mike Krzyzewski attempted to make the same point — that their players must somehow find a way…

Tribune News Service

John Clay: With Final Four approaching, just who qualifies as an actual basketball blue blood?

LEXINGTON, Ky. — You’ve probably read the story line. Saturday’s Final Four is full of basketball blue bloods. Duke and North Carolina meet in one national semifinal. Kansas plays Villanova in the other. Blue bloods all.

Tribune News Service

Eric Church reveals ‘most selfish’ reason for cancelling huge stadium show

‘How about you refund my f***ing airfare and condo rental too? Four day vacation you just s*** on because you’re selfish,’ an angry fan wrote

The Independent UK

Kansas Jayhawks arrive in New Orleans with ‘some Cajun food’ on the immediate agenda

NEW ORLEANS — Kansas’ men’s basketball players and coaches filed off a charter bus — one decorated with both a Jayhawk and NCAA logo — in front of the JW Marriott in the heart of the Big Easy to the applause of hotel employees and fans Wednesday afternoon, including one…

Tribune News Service

Paolo Banchero Poised to Become Seattle’s Favorite Son

Seattle is proud of its underrated hoops heritage. If Banchero continues on the path that started at O’Dea High School, he’ll be primed to be the city’s best basketball export.

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Country Music Superstar Cancels Concert To Watch Duke Vs. UNC

Musicians cancel tour dates for various reasons including illness, death in the family, issues with venues or a worldwide pandemic. Have you ever heard of a musician canceling a tour date to attend a Final Four basketball game?

Sports Illustrated

Hubert Davis Repeated a Dean Smith Inspiration Tactic From His Playing Days

In his first year at the helm of the North Carolina program, Davis started the journey to the Final Four with the same approach as his former coach.

The Independent UK

March Madness paying off for players under mishmash of rules

This week, Kansas, Villanova, North Carolina and Duke will play in the first Final Four to take place under the new world of “name, image and likeness” endorsements in college sports

Tribune News Service

Luke DeCock: Amid coaching transitions, Duke-UNC Final Four meeting could change rivalry forever

The photo was taken in a back hallway of the Smith Center, out of public view, two generations of coaches standing together. Who could have imagined, when Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams and Hubert Davis and Jon Scheyer all posed before the first Duke-Carolina game in February, that it could…

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Catching our Collective Breath Before the Final Fours

ICYMI: The biggest story for each Final Four teamWith our writers traveling to the men’s and women’s Final Fours in New Orleans and Minneapolis, respectively, today’s edition of the Morning Madness newsletter is coming a bit later. And while we all get ready for a weekend full of basketball, take…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Eric Church fans are rightfully furious after he canceled a San Antonio concert to watch Duke – North Carolina

Yes, this really happened.

Sports Illustrated

JJ Redick Says His ‘Inferiority’ Dig At North Carolina Was a Joke

The Blue Devils great-turned-ESPN analyst turned some heads ahead of Saturday’s Final Four showdown between the hated rivals.

Sports Illustrated

Where Are the Doubters Now? Coach Hubert Davis at the Heart of Tar Heels’ Tourney Run

With determination and an unwavering positivity, the first-year head coach has silenced his critics as North Carolina prepares to play rival Duke in the national semifinals.

Tribune News Service

Luke DeCock: Why the Duke-UNC Final Four game is North Carolina’s biggest sporting event ever

RALEIGH, N.C. — This is the Big One, some 70 years in the making, the unthinkable and the unimaginable.

The Guardian - US

Why Duke-UNC’s Final Four game could be the biggest in college basketball history

The Blue Devils and Tar Heels play each other in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a century-long rivalry. And a storm is gathering

Chicago Sun-Times

45th annual McDonald’s All-American Game played in front of a nearly sold-out crowd

Illinois had no representation in the girls’ or boys’ game this year, but Wintrust Arena had a near-sellout crowd of 8,261.

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