Duke Basketball Report · Feb 19, 2019
Sports Illustrated’s Top Ten Duke-UNC Classics
Austin Rivers gets ready to launch the shot that will live forever in Duke basketball lore.Sports Illustrated has posted their Top Ten Duke-UNC games of all time and while it’s pretty good there are a few tweaks we might make.
First of all, who could make this list and leave off the foundational game? We’ve seen pictures of 1940s football with UNC fans outside of what is now Wallace Wade Stadium with signs wishing Duke well in its bowl game. Can you imagine?
Art Heyman put a stop to that.
Originally planning to go to UNC like so many New Yorkers to play for Frank McGuire, Heyman’s father (or stepfather, we can’t recall) couldn’t stand McGuire, so he ended up at Duke instead.