As a superstitious Duke basketball fan, I always break out a rain dance — dark clouds are the ultimate goal — on days of Duke-UNC games. Because wherever I’ve ever been on days like today, I only feel comfortable about the impending outcome when the sky above my head appears anything but Carolina blue.
While I have no official stats to back up the correlation between the Blue Devils’ success rate against the Tar Heels and the weather in my location on days of college basketball’s granddaddy of rivalries, I feel like gloomy conditions have spelled gloom for the evil side more times than not.