Carolina/Duke Basketball: The 2022-2023 Thread Celebrating the Tarheel Final Four Victory over Coach K in his Final Game

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RDU VOL#14 said:

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You beat me to it by a few hours posting UT and Carolina. I think that it will be a fun matchup to see where both stand early in the year. I like Duke and Arky as well. Glad that they didn't make it predictable by having either one play Kentucky.
 
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Pennheel said:
You beat me to it by a few hours posting UT and Carolina. I think that it will be a fun matchup to see where both stand early in the year. I like Duke and Arky as well. Glad that they didn't make it predictable by having either one play Kentucky.
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UT vs Carolina is a good game. Disappointed that it’s at the Smith Center though . I went to the last one there . I’m a little disappointed that Duke gets Arky. I was hoping for UK, but I guess they’ll try and get that another year. Hopefully Duke goes into Fayetteville and embarrasses Musselman. Again…
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
UT vs Carolina is a good game. Disappointed that it’s at the Smith Center though . I went to the last one there . I’m a little disappointed that Duke gets Arky. I was hoping for UK, but I guess they’ll try and get that another year. Hopefully Duke goes into Fayetteville and embarrasses Musselman. Again…
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Yeah, once I heard that it was in Chapel Hill, I was not as excited because that's a bit more of a drive for me,but I'm considering going. I tried getting tickets to the last game there between them,but I did go to the Davidson game right after it.

I see where you're coming from with Duke and Arky though. I forgot about the last game. Even when Kentucky is underperforming (which is a lot recently) ,two Blueblood programs are a big seller. Definitely would have been interesting.
 
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Yeah, once I heard that it was in Chapel Hill, I was not as excited because that's a bit more of a drive for me,but I'm considering going. I tried getting tickets to the last game there between them,but I did go to the Davidson game right after it.

I see where you're coming from with Duke and Arky though. I forgot about the last game. Even when Kentucky is underperforming (which is a lot recently) ,two Blueblood programs are a big seller. Definitely would have been interesting.
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Duke is 3-1 against Kentucky in the past ten years. I’m glad they chose someone else. I would’ve wanted to see Virginia, but I get choosing Miami based on their recent success and giving us Arkansas based on their success
 
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volfanbill said:
Duke is 3-1 against Kentucky in the past ten years. I’m glad they chose someone else. I would’ve wanted to see Virginia, but I get choosing Miami based on their recent success and giving us Arkansas based on their success
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Duke’s 3-1, but they’ve never been to Rupp vs UK and UK hasn’t been to Cameron . I’ve always wanted to see that. Both venues would ready to go. I think it’s very similar to Carolina and Kansas. I don’t know that they’ve played at Fogg or The Smith Center, but it would be appointment television.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Duke’s 3-1, but they’ve never been to Rupp vs UK and UK hasn’t been to Cameron . I’ve always wanted to see that. Both venues would ready to go. I think it’s very similar to Carolina and Kansas. I don’t know that they’ve played at Fogg or The Smith Center, but it would be appointment television.
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Meh, I understand it, just not enough to move the needle for me. Felt like it was Duke/MSU so the time in the ACC/B1G basically just because. I got bored of it. I like a Duke having different opponents
 
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volfanbill said:
Meh, I understand it, just not enough to move the needle for me. Felt like it was Duke/MSU so the time in the ACC/B1G basically just because. I got bored of it. I like a Duke having different opponents
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Duke vs Michigan State is definitely played out.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Duke’s 3-1, but they’ve never been to Rupp vs UK and UK hasn’t been to Cameron . I’ve always wanted to see that. Both venues would ready to go. I think it’s very similar to Carolina and Kansas. I don’t know that they’ve played at Fogg or The Smith Center, but it would be appointment television.
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Doing some quick digging there is no mention of it ever happening.

But I did find:

James Naismith hired Forrest “Phog” Allen who recruited a kid named Adolph Rupp. Phog would also recruit a young kid named Dean Smith who went on to win a title in 1952 as a reserve.

Larry Brown coached Danny Manning and the miracles

And everyone knows about Roy Williams.
 
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Dudleys87 said:
Doing some quick digging there is no mention of it ever happening.

But I did find:

James Naismith hired Forrest “Phog” Allen who recruited a kid named Adolph Rupp. Phog would also recruit a young kid named Dean Smith who went on to win a title in 1952 as a reserve.

Larry Brown coached Danny Manning and the miracles

And everyone knows about Roy Williams.
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Good stuff. Definitely a lot of connections, especially w/ KU and UNC. I never knew that Naismith, Phoog and Rupp.

That Larry Brown Kansas team beat Duke in the Final 4 in Kansas City and then beat OU I think. Then Roy beat UNC in the 91 Final 4 where Dean got ejected (which was absurd). Duke then beat Roy and KU for K’s first title.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Good stuff. Definitely a lot of connections, especially w/ KU and UNC. I never knew that Naismith, Phoog and Rupp.

That Larry Brown Kansas team beat Duke in the Final 4 in Kansas City and then beat OU I think. Then Roy beat UNC in the 91 Final 4 where Dean got ejected (which was absurd). Duke then beat Roy and KU for K’s first title.
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It’s definitely a rich rich tradition. Almost like a coaching tree of sorts. Kansas also has the edge in overall wins 2100/2090 respectively. UNC holds the edge in titles however 12/10.
 
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Yes, or ones that you’ve seen over the years.
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Wow. That’s really difficult to narrow it down. There were so many really good teams that didn’t win it from each team in the mid to late 90’s. I would take UNC’s 97 or 98 team over their 93 title team. I would take Duke 99 over the 91 Title team and maybe even over 01, definitely over 2010 and 2015. Some of Pitino’s mid 90’s UK teams were very very good. Not trying to bash Roy here, but how he managed to never win a title w/ some of his teams at KU is baffling .

I’ll take Duke 92 w/ Laettner, Hurley and Grant Hill.
Kentucky 96
UNC 82 with Worthy, Perkins and Jordan. ‘09 is not far away
Kansas 08?: Mario Chalmers and those guys were pretty good . Really wanted to pick 97 Kansas with Paul Pierce, Jacque Vaughn, Pollard and Lafrentz. Seriously, how ridiculous was Arizona’s run in 97 beating KU, UNC and Kentucky?

Unc 82 would be really hard to beat out of those 4.
 
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82 UNC
92 Duke
08 Kansas although those Danny Manning Jayhawk teams were unbelievable
12 Kentucky, although the 96 team was insane

I think 92 Duke and 08 Kansas are the best two.
 
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