Lucas: Decades In The Making

Ralph Sampson and Sam Perkins had some classic duels in the early 1980s.With just a week left in the Atlantic Coast Conference regular season, Carolina travels to Charlottesville tomorrow for what appears to be the conference’s game of the year. With the Tar Heels and Cavaliers both in the nation’s top ten, it’s a game that will be featured on ESPN College Gameday, will be pivotal in determining the league’s regular season champion, and also has major implications for a plum top seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Those are all attributes the Tar Heels are accustomed to seeing assigned to the traditional regular season finale with Duke, not a one-week-earlier trip to John Paul Jones Arena. But…