For everyone in the state of North Carolina, except Wake Forest and North Carolina State fans, tomorrow night will see yet another installment of the backward brawl between the University of North Carolina Tarheels and the Duke BlueDevils' men's basketball teams.
The game will be played in Chapel Hill, NC, at 9 pm (eastern time) and it will air nationally on ESPN. We expect vocal commentator Dick Vitale will be coming in with the camera crews from Bristol, Conn.
Duke, which features star players Jon Scheyer and Nolan Smith, is having the significantly better year as they are ranked in the top ten in both college basketball polls.
But, UNC, which is now 2-6 in ACC conference play desperately wants a win especially after a disastorous loss to the Univeristy of Maryland on the road by a 92-71 margin on Super Bowl Sunday.
The Tarheels, which feature star players Ed Davis and Larry Drew II, hope to also recover from an off-the-court fiasco in which their team bus was stuck for several hours in their hotel room just outside College Park, Md., as they were trying to get to the gym to practice for their game with the home-team 'Terps.
As far as I can tell the weather crew at WRAL-TV in nearby Raleigh is not calling for any snow in the Triangle, so the game should tipoff on time. We presume it will be a good time for all, especially BlueDevil fans as many of us who watch college hoops expect Duke to win. My guess is that the final score will be in the vicinity of 84-69, but I'm not placing a wager on that as anything can happen in ACC play!
Tomorrow night, the Virginia Tech Hokies' men's baskebtall team will also try to top the home-team North Carolina State Wolfpack for the first time in Raleigh since 1917!
UPDATE: Both Duke and Virginia Tech won their respective games last night.
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