Take landslide wins in which Carolina’s football team had pounded Duke by a combined total of 111-51 over the last two years ...
Take a 2016 season in which the Tar Heel offense was humming by land and by air, with power and assorted bait-and-switch schemes, with everyone from the established wizards like Elijah Hood to the colts like Thomas Jackson having a voice ...
Take those same two months when Duke had nary a win in the ACC, had lost to middling Northwestern and Virginia teams and had watched three of four senior captains banished to the injury list with Achilles tendon or knee injuries .