Duke won the rematch with NC State, 71-67, and in the process won its fifth straight and finished the regular season undefeated in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Not bad.
You got the distinct feeling that these two teams don’t much like each other. There was plenty of pushing and shoving, particularly between Tyrese Proctor and Terquavion Smith. They were jawing and jostling early and eventually Smith got a technical for knocking Proctor down on an in-bounds play (he pushed Proctor three times; on the third, Proctor fell into the human cushion known as DJ Burns and then to the floor.