UNC v. Dook - Greatest College Rivalry?

This has been quite a week in my college sports life. First, we suffered a quite embarrasing loss to our cross town rival NC State, but we then redeemed ourselves by kicking our other rival's ASS in their own home court. Yes - I am talking about Duke.

Now when I talk about THE rivalry, Carolina and Dook, I am certainly not talking about football. It's all about basketball in both of these schools. If I started talking about football rivalries my boyfriend would be all in my face jabbering on and on about Ohio State and Michigan. See...my boyfriend is a hard-core Buckeye...poor dear. So I am not going to open that can of worms...I'm going to stay in-state.

Speaking of in-state...sure we hate NC State, but it's for different reasons. They make fun of us and say we are a bunch of liberal hippies - we say they're a bunch of rednecks. We claim we're smarter, they claim they can tailgate better than we can. We just have a sibling-type rivalry. Deep down we love NC State, we just don't like them. But we have to love them because they also HATE Duke.

Duke and Carolina are very close...maybe 10 minutes without traffic or stop lights. We have the same schedule and very similar grade requirements. The only thing that is different about us is the simple fact that Duke is a private school and Carolina is public. I mean - we have a much more attractive student body and we don't have to cheer to that weasel Koach K...but that's minute details.

It's that simple fact that we are similar academic programs that fuels the fire for this huge rivalry. We're trying to get the same glory. We're trying to be the biggest basketball program in the state, in the ACC, in the east coast, and in the NCAA. The Triangle is said to be one of the best places to live in the country, so who's gonna win in the fight for the best college basketball team in the best place to live? Well...we did a couple of days ago.

Newsteam Assemble!

Hahahahahaha...such easy marks.

ESPN among many others have quoted the Carolina v. Duke rivalry as the "best" in the nation. In terms of basketball, I think there is NO contest. UNC and Duke have the best college basketball rivalry. Many think of Kentucky v. Louisville, Indiana v. Purdue, Arizona v. UCLA...but nothing beats mine!

I think the greatest way to tell if your rivalry is the best one is to watch the television. If you have a commericial about your rivalry, then your rivalry is iron-clad. Observe the commericial featuring my baby's Buckeyes:



Now, observe some commercials/videos featuring my Tarheels:







Basically...the media doesn't lie. I guess Ohio State v. Michigan for football and UNC v. Duke for basketball. I'm so proud, and my boy is so proud of me.