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UNC-Duke Rivalry [Long post, you're warned!]

So as you, my few readers, may have noticed, I just posted about Duke University of Durham, North Carolina. If you are from the Tobacco Road area, you are very familiar with the rivalry between Duke and UNC, which I discussed a bit on my very first post of this blog. Even if you aren't from the Chapel Hill-Durham area, you've heard of this rivalry, especially during basketball season. It's in the air we breathe around here. So without further ado, I bring you: ( Source ) THE UNC - DUKE RIVALRY ( Source ) [By the way, the color used to highlight UNC is the WRONG color. Technically, the blue used for Duke is also wrong, but they're more willing to use royal blue as "Duke blue". However, "Duke blue" is a different, darker shade of blue than royal blue. Fun fact.] So the first matchup between the two schools happened in basketball on January 24, 1920 . That's all that started it. That, and the fact that there two distinctly diffe