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Duke basketball uses strange earthquake as cruel reminder to Tar Heels

The 2020 Duke basketball win at UNC (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

It’s no wonder Duke basketball puts foes to shame at the social media game.

Around 8 a.m. Sunday, North Carolina experienced its strongest earthquake since 1926, per the North Carolina Geological Survey. Perhaps the sight of the Richter scale reading — 5.1-magnitude — reminded Duke basketball’s official Twitter account of the “win probability over time” graph from the last minutes of regulation and overtime the last time the Blue Devils visited Chapel Hill.

Or maybe the creative minds running the account felt their earth trembling, which would naturally bring to mind the eruption that followed the 98-96 overtime win at UNC.