By Jim Sumner
Duke Basketball Report
April 3, 2022
If you don’t have a rooting interest North Carolina’s 81-77 win over Duke was an instant classic.
But if you don’t have a Duke rooting interest, you’re probably not reading this.
Instead words like “devastating” probably come closer to what you’re thinking.
“Tonight was a battle,” Mike Krzyzewski said. “It was a game that the winner was going to be joyous and the loser was going to be in agony. That’s the type of game we expected. We would like to have been on the other side of it. But I’m proud of what my guys have done. They’ve been an amazing group for me, the youngest team I’ve coached. We had our chances tonight but they made a couple of more plays than we did.”