Blue vs. Blue vs. Blue vs. Blue.
There’s going to be a whole lot of one primary color this weekend at the men’s basketball Final Four in New Orleans. But don’t you dare say those blues are all the same. Each university has its own shade, a color it reveres and often fiercely protects.
For U.N.C., it’s Carolina Blue, a sky blue color. The other three are darker, but each distinct: K.U. Blue, Duke Navy Blue and Villanova Signature Blue.
North Carolina can trace its link with light blue to the 18th century, when a debating society chose it as its color, said Fred Kiger, a historian of the university.