North Carolina gets the best of Duke as the Blue Devils lose 76-68

Posted On: March 9, 2008 By: Cliff Comments: (more)

It was Senior Night at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday night as the Duke Blue Devils hosted the hated rivals the North Carolina Tarheels.  It and up and down game, it was North Carolina who came out on top with a 76-68 victory over the Blue Devils.  Duke battled back in the second half but a late rally by Carolina pushed them over the edge.

One thing that really hurt the Blue Devils was not making a basket in the last five minutes of the ballgame.  Someone needed to step up and take control to get the ball in the bucket those last five minutes.  I gotta give Carolina credit where it is due, and they shut down the opposing team and ended up winning the ball game.

I really thought that DeMarcus Nelson would come out and have a better game to be honest.  Maybe the Senior had some crazy nerves as it was Senior night but I would have thought he would get rid of those after a few minutes and then play a great game.  Nelson was held to six points on only 3 of 12 shooting.  Not the type of game he wanted to play that is for sure.

We just might see another game between to the rivals during the ACC Tournament in the next week.  Duke will have to battle their way through the tournament to have that shot however.  They need to play a lot better basketball then they have the past two weeks if they want that rematch.

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4 Responses to “North Carolina gets the best of Duke as the Blue Devils lose 76-68”

1. MONGO Says:
   March 9th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

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   http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cs-080308-tyler-hansborough-morrissey,1,5048999.column

2. dukekicks098 Says:
   March 12th, 2008 at 9:43 pm

   I think Nelson had a good game. we need to understand here that nelson is the leader, and possibly the best player on the team, yes everyone wanted a good game out of nelson. But think about, UNC’s main goal was to shut him down and they did it, for duke to win this game other players had to step up and have better games.

3. dukesrockss34 Says:
   March 18th, 2008 at 3:56 am

   Jon Scheyer is amazing!!!!!!!I love him. I want to meet him so bad. and the team did amazing against unc.

4. dukesrockss34 Says:
   March 18th, 2008 at 6:28 am

   UNC is a Great team but we can soo beat them. Pauls is one of the best players on the team but its the team that could have won the game.

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