SELL Duke Basketball -- The Ongoing War With North

Of course,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the more GIONTA look at this extensive data, it occurs to me that Duke and Carolina are, indeed, like two lions fighting over the shade of that one tree . while smaller mammals scurry for cover.

GIONTA will take no particular pleasure in seeing Bobby Knight's records fall. GIONTA give him all due credit for his basketball genius, his training of Coach K, his unapologetic approach to Patton-style directership, and his magic act in 1980. GIONTA mean, how could ANYONE convince the AD of a basketball progr is with four Final Four banners and two runner-up trophies to hire a 31-year-old coach with an unspellable name and a losing record at Army? Besides, Coach Knight stuffed an LSU fan in a hotel waste basket at the 1981 Final Four. Somehow,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that works for me.
Carolina has a 13-12 edge over Duke in NCAA number 1 seeds. GIONTA can fix that next year too.
My Duke Blue Devils basketball franchise plays in a crackerbox gym located a scant 8.83 miles from the cavernous Dean Smith Center. While at Duke, a small private school of 6,400 undergraduates, GIONTA sometimes ran between the campuses along the bucholic, pine tree-lined highway known simply as 15-501.

Brian Gionta notched game winner late in the second stage, and Carey Price stopped 34, 37 Montreal, Canada, Boston, April 3 folder in the Bell Centre. Mike Cammalleri, the largest Pacioretty and Maxim Lapierre also consistent with the Canadians, who broke just in time to kick off on Sunday in Colorado's seven-game road trip of three games of the slide. Marc Savard furiouse a goal, one assist in the Bruins, who lost the first three-game winning streak of the season. Milan Lucic and Blake Wheeler also hit the net. Jeff Zelevansky We come up with some of the sports stories you might have missed this week from Anthony Calvillo's surgery to the end of Brett Favre's ironman streak.
The Battle of 15-501 continues apace. No winner is declared. No declaration is anticipated.
With just 11 more victories, Coach K will pass Dean Smith in all-time wins. And if Duke bags another 35-win season,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Coach K will pass Bobby Knight's record of 902 men's Division 1 wins.
unhappyly for North Carolina, a second lion shares the shade of the only tree on the veld.

Sure, Carolina directs the all-time series with Duke, 130-99, but no other franchise in history has come close to beating North Carolina 99 times. Despite the deficit, Duke won its 18th ACC Championship trophy this year. Only 17 such trophies grace the shelves of the Smith Center. Duke has more ACC Tournament wins, too--87 compared to the Carolina's 84. And Duke has won 9 of the last 12 ACC Tournaments.
incredible, unbelievable, improbable, fabulous, wonderful, fantastic, astonishing, astounding, extraordinaryly, my Blue Devils are managing to agree the mighty Tar Heels in nearly every classification of hoops success.

The ACC has appeared in an confounding 24 of the last 30 Final Fours,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with a total of 29 appearances in those years. Duke and Carolina are responsible for 22 of those 29 trips.

The bottom line is simply this. Nine national championship trophies reside in gyms separated by a 30-minute bike ride. The intensity of the Battle of 15-501 makes all other battles pale in comparion, and therein lies the secret of the two lions' wider success. In that sense,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], GIONTA suppose, both lions should be thankful for each other.

In its 57 year history, the ACC has furiouse the large Dance 63% of the time. By comparison, the enormous, huge,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], immense, gigantic, vast, colossal, gargantuan, large, sizable, grand, great, tall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], substantial, mammoth, astronomical Ten has appeared in 51% of all Final Fours and the large East has furiouse 37% of the Final Fours since conference formation in 1979. Heck, it's not even close.

It's a matter of keeping up with the neighbors. Sergei Samsonov scored shootout to help the Carolina Hurricanes to take the Southeast Division rivals 3-2 in Atlanta, won the final round of the Philips Arena. Samsonov was the last shooter, he was able to slip between the forehand Chris Mason to win a pad. Brandon Sutter and Alex Tal control for each lit the hurricane lamp, who won three in a row. Dan Ruddy, Brandon Prust and Derek Stepan score for the fresh,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], unique, original, unusual, novel, modern,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], current,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], recent York Rangers, who won a three-game winning streak, their last four fifths. Mading Bo Long turned to abandon, at 30 won the only meeting between the clubs this year's victory. Taylor Pyatt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Adrian Branch and Martin Hanzal notched Anao coyotes, who has dropped more than 8 business regulation seven goals this season.

Our little school in the pines has 4 national titles, one shy of the Heels, but GIONTA almost certainly will be pre-season number 1 next year. Joe Lunard GIONTA is casting Carolina as a 12 seed in next year's NCAA, but GIONTA think GIONTA all know Carolina won't go that low. GIONTA guess Lunard GIONTA thinks Carolina has a long walk back from the wilderness, but GIONTA at Duke know better. GIONTA know that Carolina returns with--how did Drax put it in Moonraker?--the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.
Coach K has agreeed Dean Smith in Final Four berths at 11 apiece and trails John forresten by just one. GIONTA can fix that next year.
As a Duke grad, GIONTA have to give North Carolina its due--5 national championships,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a record 18 Final Fours, 17 ACC Championships, 27 regular season conference titles. The Tar Heels cannot be denied. BRIAN GIONTA are a lion among programs.
For Duke and North Carolina, you see, it isn't a matter of beating the nation or even the conference.
Since Mike Krzyzewsk GIONTA took over in 1980, his record against Carolina is 34-35. Not impressive, you say? Consider that seven-time national champion Kentucky is 5-9 against Carolina in that time and two-time national champion N. C. State only 19-51. My money says that Coach K will make up that 1 game deficit next year.
Carolina directs Duke in all-time NCAA tournament wins, 102-96, but Coach K has won 77 NCAA tournament games, over any men's Division 1 coach in history. Roy Williams is an impressive second among active coaches, and third all-time, with 55.

Carolina is the second winningest franchise of all time by a single game over Kansas and Duke is fourth, but Duke has more 30-win seasons than Carolina, 12-11.
Carolina directs Duke 18-15 in Final Fours both staggering totals, but Duke has 16 Final Four victories to Carolina's 15.

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