Duke’s next basketball game tips off Saturday at 6 P.M. That’s an unusual time for a basketball game to start. But on a scale of strange-things-about-this-game, it barely registers. Unranked Duke hosts unranked North Carolina. Going into the February stretch run, neither team is assured of making the NCAA Tournament, assuming there is one. Cameron Indoor Stadium will be devoid of fans and the tent city outside Cameron never even got started this season.
Mike Krzyzewski met—virtually, of course—with the media Thursday afternoon and recognized that this game is unlike any other Duke-Carolina game.
“A lot of things are diminished through our country.