On Thursday, Brandon made the case that UNC Basketball fans and certain players have been making since the mid-2000’s, when Roy Williams’ tenure was in full swing: NC State is not our rival. It’s fun to say and even pretend to believe, not least because of the reaction it elicits from a significant segment of the NCSU fanbase for whom hating UNC might be more important than supporting the school they’ve chosen to back. And it’s easy to get suckered into it when the gold standard for rivalries in all of American sports is sitting right there, in the form of the UNC-Duke.
UNC vs NCSU: Rivalry
