The Duke-UNC rivalry has always been intense but there have been some exceptional peaks of that intensity. The Heyman vs. UNC era was crazy, the Laettner-Montross era of course, and the Tyler Hansbrough era was also quite dramatic, not least of all because of the time Psycho T’s fan got in the way of Gerald Henderson’s elbow.
But other than than Art Heyman’s conflict with Frank McGuire’s UNC teams, it’s hard to think of a period that was more dramatic and more intense than the mid 1980’s when Duke had Danny Ferry, Robert Brickey and Billy King, and UNC countered with JR Reid, Scott Williams and Steve Bucknall.