North Carolina jumped to big leads at the beginning of each half Saturday night in Cameron Indoor Stadium and held off several furious Duke comebacks to take a 91-87 win back to Chapel Hill.
The win ended a three-game Duke winning streak in the rivalry and drops Duke to .500 on the season, 5-5 in the ACC, 7-7 overall.
“They knocked us back at the beginning of each half,” Mike Krzyzewski acknowledged. “And then we came back but not far enough. We kept fighting back . . . . so it was counter-punching the whole game, trying to get back and put some game pressure on them.