BROOKLYN—This is how it was.
When your parents or your favorite TV analyst tell you about how the Carolina-Duke rivalry was even more intense in the 1980s and 1990s, they're talking about games like Friday.
They're talking about games that had staredowns, like the Joel Berry-Gary Trent Jr. dust-up. And they mean games that had flagrant fouls, like Grayson Allen's hip check on Garrison Brooks. They're talking about games with the head coaches meeting at midcourt to sort through the latest altercation, and a coach stalking the officials at halftime, and dunks you'll never forget and assists delivered while sitting on the floor and sacrificing bodies to take key charges.