In its storied history, Duke men’s basketball has captured two dozen ACC regular-season titles and 27 conference tournament championships.
Few, if any, of those teams bulldozed through the league quite as convincingly as this year’s Blue Devils have.
Duke’s latest victim was a North Carolina team that entered Saturday evening’s regular-season finale having won six in a row to surge back into contention for an NCAA tournament bid. The Blue Devils withstood a mid-game Tar Heels surge, steadied themselves and sent their Tobacco Road rivals tumbling back to the NCAA tournament bubble with an 82-69 road victory at the Dean Dome.