It’s here! The biggest basketball game of the year...until the one next month...has arrived as the “Coach K Retirement Tour” rolls on into Chapel Hill tonight. For the last time, the Duke Blue Devils will stroll into the Dean Smith Center with Mike Krzyzewski on the bench, and say what you will, it is at least a little bitter sweet to realize that with both Roy Williams and K gone, an era will have passed both in the rivalry and in college sports.
All of that is big on its own, but this game-as it usually does-matters
Currently, the Tar Heels (8-3) sit just half a game behind the Blue Devils (8-2) in the ACC standings, meaning a win would vault them into at least a tie for first depending on how the rest of the games in the league shake out.