For some Tar Heel alumni living in Washington, D.C., there's always another Blue Cup.
Buffalo Billiards and Ventnor Sports Cafe — two UNC-themed sports bars in the nation's capital — might not be located in the heart of Chapel Hill, but when the seats started filling with UNC alumni on game days, the owners noticed.
Scott Auslander, owner of Ventnor Sports Cafe, said though he had no connection to UNC when the bar opened in 2005, it has always been a UNC-themed place.
“It happened very organically,” Auslander said. “When we first opened, it was just a large group of recent alumni at the time who would come in to watch all the football games and all the basketball games.