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North Carolina and Duke battled it out for the first time on January 24, 1920. The two teams have met at least twice a year since then. The games frequently determine the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion; since the ACC's founding in 1953, Duke and North Carolina have combined to win or share 47 ACC regular season titles (80% of the total) and 36 tournament titles (61% of the total), including 14 of the last 15 (the only exception being Maryland in 2004). The final game of the regular season for both schools alternates between Chapel Hill and Durham and has been played in Cameron Indoor Stadium since 1940 and the Dean E. Smith Center since 1986.

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Much like the Alabama-Auburn football rivalry, the North Carolina-Duke rivalry is all the more intense because the two schools have consistently been among the nation's elite men's basketball teams for most of the last 60 years. Both schools are also two of the most victorious programs in NCAA men's basketball history; North Carolina is #3 on the list of all-time winningest programs in Division I Men's Basketball and Duke is #4. Duke has won four NCAA championships and has appeared in fifteen Final Fours, while North Carolina has won five NCAA championships and appeared in a record eighteen Final Fours. Additionally, North Carolina was also awarded a sixth national championship by the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1942 for their undefeated 1924 season.

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Combining for eight national championships over the last 30 years, Duke and North Carolina have captured 27% of the national championships, or greater than one every four years. Over the past 14 years, one of the two teams has been the AP pre-season #1 ranked team in the country seven times (50% of the time). Since 1977-78, Duke or North Carolina has been in the pre-season top three 26 times (72%). Over the entirety of the AP poll (the past 51 years), the teams have been in the pre-season top four 69% of the time. Over this same period, one has been #1 15 times, making it an almost 1 in 3 chance that Duke or North Carolina start the year at #1 in the last 50+ years.