Frisco Dillon's Blog

This Wednesday, the greatest rivalry in sports will once again engage in Chapel Hill.  Duke and UNC are poised for another exhibition of why college basketball is the most pure of all team competition.  It will be the best 2 hours of entertainment this year and then repeated later in March at Cameron.

Let's just hope that Coach K will allow his team to play championship basketball instead of engaging in the kind of "thug fueled" nonsense that occurs so often in this rivalry.  Duke is unquestionably in the top 5 of all programs since K's arrival and the talent and success speaks for itself.  But, Duke seems to think they should be the Detroit Pistons of the ACC.  Let us not forget 1992 when Eric Montross had to leave for a quick 7 stitches due to a flagrant elbow, 1993 when Christian Laettner stepped on Brian Reese's head while he was sprawled on the floor and of course last year when Gerald Henderson showed Duke's true colors with a cowardly and aggressive tomahawk forearm to Tyler Hansbrough.  In each of these games, Duke was trailing UNC and justice was served in each as Carolina prevailed in the end.

It will be a great game, no matter who wins.  Let's just hope K will show a little more class.