Duke's Winning Streak Was Extended To Five Games, North Carolina's Winning Streak Was Halted At Four Games As Duke, North Carolina Met For The First Time This Season Saturday In Chapel Hill
As Duke North Carolina opposed one another for the first time this season Saturday in Chapel Hill Duke, North Carolina both came into the game haven won four games in a row.
Why?
Because Monday Duke won 57-43 at Notre Dame!
In Duke’s 57-43 win over Notre Dame freshman Paolo Banchero scored 21 points, with 14 coming in the second half, and No. 9 Duke held Notre Dame to 27.9 percent shooting in a 57-43 win Monday night at Purcell Pavilion.
Classmate AJ Griffin added 13 points, and he along with Banchero and graduate transfer Theo John each grabbed nine rebounds to help the Blue Devils (18-3, 8-2 ACC) hand the Irish (14-7, 7-3 ACC) their first home loss of the season.
The 43 points allowed marked the fewest Duke has given up to an ACC opponent since a 68-40 victory against Clemson on Jan. 8, 2013.
Though shooting at just a 39.4 percent clip offensively, the Blue Devils outrebounded Notre Dame 51-36. In addition to Banchero, Griffin and John's nine boards apiece, sophomore Mark Williams brought down eight while junior Wendell Moore Jr., had five. Williams also recorded three blocked shots – the 18th game this season with multiple blocks for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year candidate.
The game was the makeup of a Jan. 1 contest postponed due to health and safety protocols in the Duke program. Notre Dame led just once at 2-0, before Duke scored the next seven points and gradually increased their lead against the Irish, who were held to 18.8 percent shooting in the first half. Notre Dame closed the deficit to four, 18-14, on a pair of Atkinson dunks, but Duke finished on a 9-0 run to lead at halftime 27-14.
Duke doubled the score to 40-20 on a Banchero dunk with 14:42 to play and was in control the rest of the way.
”according to an article on goduke.com”
And Miami who was at the top of the Atlantic Coast Conference standings with Duke this week is now behind Duke in the standings because Miami lost to Notre Dame 64-68 in Coral Gables Florida on Wednesday because they couldn’t contain Notre Dame’s 3 point shooting.
“according to an article on miamihurricanes.com”
On Tuesday North Carolina won 90-83 over Louisville in Louisville Kentucky in overtime In North Carolina’s 90-83 overtime win over Louisville Armando Bacot scored 19 points, collected 22 rebounds Leaky Black's 3-pointer with 2:10 left in the extra session broke an 81-all tie and North Carolina led the rest of the way.
The final 1:10 was highlighted by a pair of technical fouls against Louisville that led to four made foul shots for North Carolina to seal the win.
Jae'Lyn Withers was whistled for a dead ball contact technical foul when officials ruled he shoved Bacot to the floor after the whistle blew when Bacot and Louisville's Matt Cross got tied up for a loose ball with 1:10 left. Caleb Love sank the technicals for an 86-81 Carolina lead.
Noah Locke responded with two foul shots for the Cardinals with 59 seconds to go to reduce the deficit to three. North Carolina turned it over, and on the Cardinal's ensuing possession, Cross' deep, straight-on 3 attempt hit the rim and ricocheted to the left baseline. On the bounce, however,
Louisville's Syndey Curry was called for an offensive foul boxing out Bacot. In his irate response, Cardinals interim head coach Mike Pegues was called for a technical foul upon slamming his hand on the scorer's table.
Love then sank two technical foul shots and Bacot made 1 of 2 foul shots for the whistle drawn on Curry for an 89-83 advantage. Love made 1 of 2 with five seconds to go for the game's final margin.
In regulation, after Bacot threw down a dunk to give North Carolina a 55-45 lead with 12:35 remaining, Louisville went on a shooting spree when El Ellis sank three 3s' and Cross another to give Louisville a 57-55 advantage. Neither team led by more than four points to end regulation.
Withers came up with spectacular block on R.J. Davis' wide-open layup attempt to send it to overtime tied at 74.
Ellis scored a career-high 25 points with a career-high five 3s for Louisville.
Pegues took over the Cardinals last week for the second time this season after coach Chris Mack and the school agreed to part ways.
Pegues guided Louisville to a 5-1 start while Mack was suspended and began his second stint with a 74-65 loss to No. 9 Duke on Saturday.
Louisville was without leading scorer and rebounder Malik Williams (10 ppg and 8.7 rpg) due to what Pegues described as an "indefinite" suspension. On his radio show on Monday night, Pegues called the undisclosed suspension "one game for now."
“according to an article by the Associated Press”
On Saturday night Duke’s winning streak was extended to five games!
Why?
Because Duke won the inaugural match up of the regular season defeating 87-57 in Chapel Hill!
In Duke’s 87-57 win over North Carolina AJ Griffin scored a career high 27 points. Duke shot 58% and took all drama out of the renewal of the famed rivalry early in both halves, both in building a big lead and then stretching it back out after the Tar Heels had made a run to climb back in it. Paolo Banchero had a double double with 13 points, 10 rebounds! Wendell Moore Jr. like Paolo Banchero scored 13 points but unlike Paolo Banchero Wendell Moore Jr contributed 8 boards 5 assists.
Meanwhile,
North Carolina’s winning streak was halted at four games as they lost to Duke 67-87.
Duke rolled to a 31-8 lead, then rode a star-level performance from Griffin — a freshman who missed most of his last two high school seasons due to injury. He had 13 points before halftime then put on a show to start the second half with his own 10-0 run that featured two 3s -- one of which had him dribbling between his legs to freeze Manek before burying it from in front of the Duke bench.
By the time AJ Griffin scored over Manek on an off-balance drive, Duke had stretched the lead back to 49-28 to force a North Carolina timeout.
The Tar Heels didn't get closer than 16 again, with the Blue Devils celebrating 3-pointers and dunks on the Tar Heels' homecourt while the fans began fleeing for the exits with 5 minutes left.
“according to an article on goheels.com by the Associated Press”
Duke, North Carolina are going to match up again on March 5, 2022 for their rematch and Mike Krzyzewski final game at Cameron Indoor Stadium as Duke’s Head Coach
Until then Duke has a quick turn around as they host Virginia Monday night for Big Monday match up in Durham!
North Carolina meanwhile doesn’t play until Tuesday when they play at Clemson!
Tip off for Duke’s game Monday night against Virginia is set to tip off at 7:00pm from Cameron Indoor Stadium!
The game is going to be televised on ESPN!
Tip off for North Carolina’s at Clemson Tuesday night is set for 6:00pm from Littlejohn Coliseum on ACC Network!