The ACC–Big Ten Challenge (or Big Ten–ACC Challenge as it was called in alternating years) was an in-season NCAA Division I men's college basketball series that matched up teams from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Big Ten Conference (B1G). ESPN was a key part of the creation of the challenge and held the broadcast rights to all the games. The ACC–Big Ten Challenge occurred early in the non-conference season, typically around late November/early December. Each game was hosted by one of the participating schools, with teams typically alternating home and away status in each successive year.
75-688: Played yearly from 1999 to 2022, the ACC held a record of 13–8–3 in the series and 152–127 in games. The ACC won the first 10 consecutive challenges, but only two of the next 13 challenges. In the 24 years of the event, 17 of the Challenges were decided by a single game or ended in a tie. Six of the other seven Challenges were won by the ACC by larger margins. The popularity of the Challenge led other conferences to form similar partnerships in which their members go head-to-head against each other. Examples include
150-558: A .500 record. Purdue (13–9) was the Big Ten team with the best record in the Challenge and the only Big Ten team with an overall winning record. Four schools had a .500 record. Source: Source: Source: Source Source Source Big 12 The Big 12 Conference is a college athletic conference headquartered in Irving, Texas . It consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in
225-864: A best-in-class team to build a best-in-class business strategy for the Conference". November 14, 2022 Big 12 formed a comprehensive business advisor board composed of over three dozen entrepreneurial icons and respective industry leaders. From the likes of Monte Lipman the Founder/CEO Republic Records , Steve Stoute Founder/CEO UnitedMasters & Translation, Mark Shapiro President of Endeavor, Gary Vaynerchuk ’s VaynerMedia, singer Garth Brooks , NBA legend Jason Kidd , Keith Sheldon President of Entertainment for Hard Rock Cafe International, and Ross Levinsohn Chairman and CEO - The Arena Group & Sports Illustrated . The Big 12 partnered with creative agency Translation to help build
300-626: A buyout agreement that allowed those schools to join the Big 12 in 2023. On February 9, 2023, Oklahoma and Texas announced they had reached a settlement with the conference that allowed them to join the SEC on July 1, 2024. On July 27, 2023, Colorado , a former member of the Big 12, announced it would rejoin the conference from the Pac-12 beginning in the 2024–25 academic year. The following week, Arizona , Arizona State , and Utah announced they would leave
375-1422: A coach and a player. Former Duke stars such as Jim Spanarkel , Gene Banks , Alaa Abdelnaby , Johnny Dawkins , Cherokee Parks , Bobby Hurley , Antonio Lang , Roshown McLeod , William Avery , Trajan Langdon , Grant Hill , Danny Ferry , Christian Laettner , Kenny Dennard , Brian Davis , Elton Brand , Shane Battier , Carlos Boozer , Chris Duhon , Mike Dunleavy Jr. , Dahntay Jones , Daniel Ewing , JJ Redick , Shavlik Randolph , Shelden Williams , Corey Maggette , Luol Deng , Josh McRoberts , Gerald Henderson , Andre Dawkins , Austin Rivers , Lance Thomas , Kyle Singler , Miles Plumlee , Mason Plumlee , Marshall Plumlee , Bob Verga , Quinn Cook , Nolan Smith , Jason Williams , Jabari Parker , Rodney Hood , Seth Curry , Kyrie Irving , Matt Jones , Amile Jefferson , Jahlil Okafor , Tyus Jones , Justise Winslow , Grayson Allen , Brandon Ingram , Luke Kennard , Jayson Tatum , Harry Giles , Frank Jackson , Gary Trent Jr. , Trevon Duval , Marvin Bagley III , Wendell Carter Jr. , RJ Barrett , Marques Bolden , Cam Reddish , Zion Williamson , Tre Jones , Vernon Carey Jr. , Cassius Stanley , Jalen Johnson , Paolo Banchero , Mark Williams , Wendell Moore Jr. , Trevor Keels , AJ Griffin and Dereck Lively II have gone on to play in
450-708: A conference version of the NFL combine , the Pro Day would be televised on NFL Network . In March, the Big 12 Conference announced a partnership with the legendary Rucker Park for a community engagement event. In June the event was officially announced as "Big 12 Hoops in the Park", to host men's and women's summer exhibition games. Throughout the event, the Big 12 is also preparing a number of entertainment activities and community engagements. The activities include youth clinics, meet-and-greets, live music, and food. Early June 2023,
525-564: A decided home-court advantage for many years, thanks to the diehard students known as the Cameron Crazies . The hardwood floor has been dedicated and renamed Coach K Court in honor of head coach Mike Krzyzewski , and the tent city outside Cameron where students camp out before big games is known as Krzyzewskiville . In 1999, Sports Illustrated ranked Cameron the fourth best venue in all of professional and college sports, and USA Today referred to it as "the toughest road game in
600-780: A loss to Wake Forest , 24–10. The game was played in the Angier B. Duke Gymnasium, later known as The Ark. The Trinity team won its first title in 1920, the state championship, by beating the North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering (now NC State ) 25 to 24. Earlier in the season they had beaten the University of North Carolina 19–18 in the first match-up between the two schools. Trinity college then became Duke University. Billy Werber , Class of 1930, became Duke's first All-American in basketball. The Gothic-style West Campus opened that year, with
675-575: A more contemporary audience and brand. Soon after Big 12 Conference made a deal with A Bathing Ape (BAPE) for Championship games. The Conference and BAPE worked together to create limited-edition clothing and a camouflaged Big 12 logo throughout the stadium, arena, and uniforms. The Big 12 has 11 official corporate partners: Allstate , Children’s Health , Dr Pepper , Gatorade , Grand Caliber, Old Trapper, On Location, Phillips 66 , Sonic Hard Seltzer , Sprouts Farmers Market , and Tickets For Less. There are dozens of other companies engaged as sponsors of
750-471: A new gym, later to be named for Coach Card. The Indoor Stadium opened in 1940. Initially it was referred to as an "Addition" to the gymnasium. Part of its cost was paid for with the proceeds from the Duke football team's appearance in the 1938 Rose Bowl . In 1972 it would be named for Eddie Cameron , head coach from 1929 to 1942. In 1952, Dick Groat became the first Duke player to be named National Player of
825-522: A non-conference game at Cameron from 2000 until 2019, when SFASU beat Duke in overtime (85–83). Duke maintains a tradition of hosting the previous season's Division II national champion in an exhibition game each November. Cameron Indoor Stadium was completed on January 6, 1940, having cost $ 400,000. At the time, it was the largest gymnasium in the country south of the Palestra at the University of Pennsylvania . Originally called Duke Indoor Stadium, it
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#1732797763664900-638: A record 22 times, and also lays claim to 19 ACC regular season titles. Prior to joining the ACC, Duke won the Southern Conference championships five times. Duke has also finished the season ranked No. 1 in the AP poll eight times and is the all-time leader in total weeks ranked as the number one team in the nation by the AP with 145 weeks. Additionally, the Blue Devils have the third longest streak in
975-580: A separate table below). Men's (and Coed – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities: Below are the women's sports sponsored by each member institution. The only women's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, cross country, soccer, tennis, indoor track and outdoor track. Oklahoma State is the only member that does not sponsor volleyball, and only Utah and West Virginia do not sponsor golf. Beach volleyball (4 full members) and equestrian (3 full members, 1 affiliate) have
1050-684: A turn-around jumper at the buzzer to send Duke into the Final Four with a 104–103 victory (The Shot) . Duke went on to defeat sixth-seeded Michigan , led by the Fab Five as freshmen starters including Chris Webber , Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard , 71–51 to repeat as national champions. Following the successful repeat, Laettner was the only collegiate player to be chosen for the Dream Team that won Olympic gold in Barcelona, while Krzyzewski
1125-583: Is "still the best." The Michigan Wolverines and the Maryland Terrapins basketball teams have also claimed rivalries against the Blue Devils, but Duke has long rejected both claims and considers North Carolina to be its only rival. The Duke men's basketball team has been noted as a particularly hated team within the sport. Some of the hate comes from fans of rival teams, most notably the North Carolina Tar Heels . The hate
1200-503: Is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals against outsiders, elitists against populists, even good against evil... The rivalry may be a way of aligning oneself with larger philosophic ideals — of choosing teams in life — a tradition of partisanship that reveals the pleasures and even the necessity of hatred. The rivalry has been the subject of various books and articles, including To Hate Like This Is to Be Happy Forever by Blythe and Blue Blood by Art Chansky. Further illustrating
1275-466: Is a private university whereas North Carolina is a public school; the vastly different funding structures and cultures between the two further contribute to the intensity of the rivalry. Former Esquire editor and author (and North Carolina graduate) Will Blythe argues that the rivalry's passion can be attributed greatly to class and culture in the South. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it
1350-694: Is in Manhattan, Kansas , which is part of the Topeka, Kansas media market, but it is close to the Wichita market, which encompasses two-thirds of the state (stretching to the border with Colorado ), including the cities of Dodge City , Garden City , Hutchinson and Salina . While the University of Kansas is in Lawrence, Kansas , it has close proximity to the Kansas City television market, increasing
1425-403: Is often tied to Duke's record, as the team has experienced success in most seasons since the late 1980s. The hate is often tied to specific players. Christian Laettner , who played for Duke from 1988 to 1992 as they won two national championships, is often named as one of the most hated players in college basketball. The 2015 documentary I Hate Christian Laettner names five main reasons for
1500-613: Is one of the Power Four conferences , the four highest-earning and most historically successful FBS football conferences. Power Four conferences are guaranteed at least one bid to a New Year's Six bowl game and have been granted exemptions from certain NCAA rules. The Big 12 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization . Brett Yormark became the commissioner on August 1, 2022. The Big 12 was founded in February 1994. All eight members of
1575-589: The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The team is fourth all-time in wins of any NCAA men's basketball program, and is currently coached by Jon Scheyer . Duke has won 5 National Championships (tied with Indiana for fifth all-time behind UCLA , Kentucky , North Carolina , UConn ), and appeared in 11 Championship Games (third all-time) and 17 Final Fours (tied for third all-time with Kentucky and only behind North Carolina and UCLA ). Additionally, all of Duke's championships were won after
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#17327977636641650-716: The Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series (2007–2010), SEC–Big East Challenge (2007–2012), Mountain West–Missouri Valley Challenge (2009–2018), Big 12/SEC Challenge (2013–2022), Big East–Big 12 Battle (2019–present) and the Gavitt Tipoff Games between the Big East and Big Ten (2015-2022). A sister series to the Challenge featuring women's basketball called the ACC–Big Ten Women's Challenge (2007–2022)
1725-712: The Big Eight Conference Timeline which predates the Big 12 timeline for founding members: Click here for the Southwest Conference Timeline which predates the Big 12 timeline for founding members: Current members with the longest continuous association with the Big Eight Conference / Southwest Conference / Big 12 Conference. The Big 12 Conference sponsors championship competition in 10 men's and 15 women's NCAA sanctioned sports. Source : Below are
1800-493: The North Carolina Tar Heels twice each year during ACC play, with thousands of Duke undergraduate students participating in an annual tradition of camping out in Krzyzewskiville , a lawn in front of Cameron Indoor Stadium , for months to line up for admission into the rivalry game. The two teams always face each other for their last game of the regular season, with the home team hosting their Senior Night. Some years,
1875-651: The "Big 12 Mexico" was announced, which will include men's and women's soccer, baseball, basketball, and football games and an international media rights strategy. The Big 12 Mexico will debut in December 2024 with men's and women's basketball games between Kansas and Houston at the Arena CDMX in Mexico City . The Big 12 will also consider hosting a football bowl game in Monterrey beginning in 2026. This would be
1950-472: The 14 presidents and chancellors of SEC member universities voted unanimously to invite Oklahoma and Texas to join the SEC. The following day, the Texas Board of Regents and Oklahoma Board of Regents each accepted the invitation to join the SEC from July 1, 2025. On September 10, 2021, the Big 12 announced that invitations had been extended to and accepted by BYU (a football independent and member of
2025-858: The 1996 tournament with an 18–12 record, 8–8 in conference play. They would also fall in the 1999 title game, this time to Jim Calhoun and the UConn Huskies. Duke defeated Arizona 82–72 to win its third NCAA Championship in 2001, becoming one of a handful of teams in NCAA Tournament history to defeat all of their tournament opponents by double digits. Krzyzewski was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame later that year. On April 5, 2010, Duke Men's Basketball won their fourth NCAA Championship by defeating Butler 61–59. On April 6, 2015, Duke's Men's Basketball won their fifth NCAA Championship by defeating Wisconsin 68–63. Coach K announced that
2100-449: The 2021–22 season would be his last coaching for Duke. Making it to the Final Four one last time, Duke fell just short of the championship game losing to the North Carolina Tar Heels 81–77 in the first ever meeting between the rivals in the NCAA Tournament. On June 2, 2022, Scheyer was named as the new head coach at Duke following Krzyzewski's retirement. On March 11, 2023, he became the first person to win an ACC tournament title as both
2175-425: The 4 schools form Tobacco Road. Duke and North Carolina have combined for 11 national championships, with North Carolina leading Duke 6–5. The intensity of the rivalry is augmented by the proximity of the two universities, located only ten miles apart along U.S. Highway 15–501 (also known as Tobacco Road ) or eight miles apart in straight-line distance in the cities of Durham and Chapel Hill . In addition, Duke
2250-495: The ACC replacing Maryland and maintaining the conference's 15-team membership. The conference realignments have thus led to the challenge being expanded to 14 games. When the challenge was expanded to 12 games, and later 14 games, the changes resulted in the possibility that the challenge could end in a tie. In the event of a tie, the previous year's winner retains the Commissioner's Cup. This scenario occurred most recently when
2325-468: The ACC retained the Cup in 2018 based on its 11–3 win in 2017, while the Big Ten retained the Cup in 2012 and 2013 based on its 8–4 win in 2011. The University of Maryland, College Park has a unique record in the Challenge, having competed for both sides after switching conferences in 2014. The Terrapins established a 10–5 record representing the ACC against Big Ten teams, but had just a 2–7 record representing
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2400-563: The AP Top 25 in history with 200 consecutive appearances from 1996 to 2007, trailing only Kansas' 231 consecutive polls from 2009 to 2021, and UCLA's 221 consecutive polls from 1966 to 1980. In 1906, Wilbur Wade Card, Trinity College's Athletic Director and a member of the Class of 1900, introduced the game of basketball to Trinity. The January 30 issue of The Trinity Chronicle headlined the new sport on its front page. Trinity's first game ended in
2475-486: The Big 12 and not its new conference". GOR is seen by league members as a "foundation of stability" and allowed the Big 12 to be "positioned with one of the best media rights arrangements in collegiate sports, providing the conference and its members unprecedented revenue growth, and sports programming over two networks." All members agreed to the GOR and later agreed to extend the initial 6-year deal to 13 years to correspond to
2550-409: The Big 12. The unique arrangement potentially allows Big 12 members to remain some of college sports' highest revenue earners. Other conferences' cable deals are subject to value reductions based on how people acquire cable programming; Big 12 universities' tier 3 deals are exempt. Texas alone earned more than $ 150 million of that total from their Longhorn Network before it was shut down with its move to
2625-440: The Big Ten against ACC teams. Maryland's overall record is 12–12 but is listed below according to its relevant conference affiliations. Duke was the most successful team in either conference in Challenge competition by a large margin, holding a 20–4 record. Two other ACC schools ( Virginia and Wake Forest ) won more games in the Challenge than any Big Ten school. Seven ACC schools overall had winning records while two others have
2700-498: The Big Ten, it was announced that the series would be discontinued after the 2022–23 season . ESPN arranged an ACC–SEC Challenge as a replacement beginning in the 2023–24 season . Typically, match-ups are selected for their expected interest in the game. Higher profile teams are chosen to play each other to enhance television ratings for ESPN. Minnesota and Florida State have had the most matches together, with six games. Seven other pairs of teams have faced each other five times in
2775-407: The Challenge. With the exception of two years (2011–12), the imbalance of the number of teams in each conference result in up to three teams not playing. Nine games were scheduled for each of the first six challenges, leaving two teams from the 11-team Big Ten without an opponent. With the expansion of the ACC to 12 teams with the addition of Boston College , Miami , and Virginia Tech , the field
2850-830: The NBA, while Pete Gaudet is now the head coach of the India women's national basketball team . National champion Postseason invitational champion Conference regular season champion Conference regular season and conference tournament champion Division regular season champion Division regular season and conference tournament champion Conference tournament champion The NCAA began seeding
2925-633: The NBA. Many of Krzyzewski's assistants and former players, such as Tommy Amaker ( Seton Hall , University of Michigan and Harvard ), Bob Bender ( Illinois State University and University of Washington ), Chuck Swenson at William & Mary, Mike Brey ( Delaware and Notre Dame ), Jeff Capel ( VCU , Oklahoma and Pittsburgh ), Chris Collins ( Northwestern ), Johnny Dawkins ( Stanford , UCF ), Quin Snyder ( Missouri , Utah Jazz , Atlanta Hawks ), and Steve Wojciechowski ( Marquette ) have become head basketball coaches at major universities and
3000-659: The NCAA instituted a shot clock. Duke has an NCAA-best .755 NCAA tournament winning percentage. Eleven Duke players have been named the National Player of the Year, and 71 players have been selected in the NBA draft . Additionally, Duke has had 36 players named All-Americans (60 total selections) and 14 players named Academic All-Americans . Duke has been the Atlantic Coast Conference Champions
3075-602: The Pac-12 for the Big 12, also effective for the 2024–25 academic year. The largest media markets represented by the Big 12 are, ranked nationally: Although West Virginia University is based out of Morgantown, West Virginia (officially part of the Pittsburgh (26th) media market), the TV market encompasses the majority of West Virginia's TV viewership and also reaches well into Western Pennsylvania . Kansas State University
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3150-533: The SEC, ESPN also ran a dedicated cable network for the Texas Longhorns known as Longhorn Network , as a joint venture between the university and Learfield . The Big 12 has a sponsorship rights partnership with Learfield IMG College . The Big 12 announced on September 9, 2022, that it appointed WME Sports and IMG Media , Endeavor companies, to facilitate its global content and commercial strategy. Commissioner Brett Yormark stated "We have aligned with
3225-401: The SEC. As of 2022, all of the Big 12's tier 3 rights are held by ESPN; it bought the tier 3 rights to most Big 12 teams (besides Oklahoma) in 2019, moving the events exclusively to ESPN+ . The Oklahoma Sooners retained an agreement with Bally Sports Oklahoma (which distributed its football game via pay-per-view ) until 2022, when it also sold its rights to ESPN+. Prior to its departure to
3300-605: The Texas Tech vs. Kansas State football game being the first-ever sports event staged by the conference. From its formation until 2011, its 12 members competed in two divisions in most sports. The two Oklahoma universities and the four Texas universities formed the South Division, while the other six universities of the former Big Eight formed the North Division. Between 2011 and 2012 four charter members left
3375-490: The Washington Huskies (having earned a first-round bye). In 1985 Duke defeated Pepperdine in the first round of the NCAA tournament, for Krzyzewski's first tournament win, but lost to Boston College in the second round 74–73. The next season the Blue Devils made their first Final Four under Krzyzewski. They beat Kansas to advance to the title game against Louisville, where they ultimately lost 72–69. Duke upset
3450-520: The Year. Duke left the Southern Conference to become a charter member of the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1953. The Duke team under Vic Bubas made its first appearance in the Final Four in 1963 , losing 94–75 to Loyola Chicago in the semifinal. The next year , Bubas' team reached the national title game , losing to the Bruins of UCLA , which claimed the first of that program's 10 titles in
3525-439: The base into western Missouri . * Arizona State University * University of Utah Member universities granted their first and second tier sports media rights to the conference for the length of their current TV deals. The Grant of Rights (GOR) deal with the leagues' TV contracts ensures that "if a Big 12 school leaves for another league in the next 13 years, that school's media rights, including revenue, would remain with
3600-564: The conference. On March 15, 2023, before the NFL Draft , the Big 12 announced the first of its kind across all college conferences , being a conference-wide Pro Day . Instead of schools hosting separate pro days for their football players, there will be only one conference-wide scouting event before the 2024 NFL draft. The event will be held at the Dallas Cowboys training complex, Ford Center at The Star . What essentially would be
3675-507: The conference: In 2012, two universities joined the conference: On July 26, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas notified the Big 12 Conference that the two universities did not wish to extend their grant of television rights beyond the 2024–25 athletic year. On July 27, 2021, Oklahoma and Texas sent a joint letter to the Southeastern Conference requesting an invitation for membership beginning July 1, 2025. On July 29, 2021,
3750-702: The distribution was 76 percent equal and 24 percent based on television appearances. Changing the arrangement requires a unanimous vote; as a Big 12 member, Nebraska and Texas A&M had withheld support for more equitable revenue distribution. With this model, larger universities can receive more revenue because they appear more often on television. In 2006, for example, Texas received $ 10.2 million, 44% more than Baylor University's $ 7.1 million. Duke Blue Devils men%27s basketball The Duke Blue Devils men's basketball team represents Duke University in NCAA Division I college basketball and competes in
3825-549: The first-ever bowl game in Mexico. Conference revenue comes mostly from television contracts, bowl games , the NCAA , merchandise, licensing and conference-hosted sporting events. The Conference distributes revenue annually to member institutions. From 1996 to 2011, 57 percent of revenue was allotted equally; while 43 percent was based upon the number of football and men's basketball television appearances and other factors. In 2011,
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#17327977636643900-453: The floor. Mike Krzyzewski was at Duke from 1980 to 2022. Krzyzewski's teams made the Final Four in 1986 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1994 , 1999 , 2001 , 2004 , 2010 , 2015 and 2022 . In Krzyzewski's first season , the Blue Devils would finish the season with a 17–13 overall record and 6–8 record in ACC play. The team would later play in the NIT tournament advancing to
3975-603: The former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor and Texas Tech ) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. Arizona , Arizona State , Colorado , and Utah joined the conference on August 2, 2024, as part of a more extensive NCAA conference realignment . Full members Other Conference Other Conference Affiliate member (other sport) Founding members from Big 8 Conference Founding members from Southwest Conference Click here for
4050-514: The former Big Eight Conference joined with half the members of the former Southwest Conference ( Texas , Texas A&M , Baylor and Texas Tech ) to form the conference, with play beginning in 1996. The Big 12 does not claim the Big Eight's history as its own, even though it was essentially the Big Eight plus four of the Texas universities. The Big 12 began athletic play in fall 1996, with
4125-563: The greatest college basketball game ever played," according to ESPN . In the Elite Eight, Duke met the Rick Pitino -led Kentucky Wildcats. It appeared Kentucky had sealed the win in overtime when guard Sean Woods hit a running shot off the glass in the lane to put Kentucky up by one with 2.1 seconds left on the clock. After a timeout, Duke's Grant Hill threw a full-court pass to Christian Laettner. Laettner took one dribble and nailed
4200-452: The hate: "privilege, race, bully, greatness and looks". JJ Redick , who played at Duke from 2002 to 2006 also experienced hatred and animosity from fans during his tenure. Another particularly hated player is Grayson Allen , who played for Duke from 2014 to 2018. In addition to many of the reasons Laettner was hated, Allen was also targeted after several incidents in which he deliberately tripped opposing players. Duke has 10 victories over
4275-427: The heavily favored UNLV Runnin' Rebels 79–77 in the Final Four in 1991, a rematch of the 1990 final in which Duke lost by 30 points. The team, led by Christian Laettner , Bobby Hurley , Grant Hill , and Thomas Hill, went on to defeat Kansas 72–65 to win the university's first NCAA Championship. Ranked #1 all season and favored to repeat as national champions in 1992, Duke took part in a game "acclaimed by many [as]
4350-543: The intensity of the rivalry, U.S. Representative Brad Miller , a die-hard Carolina fan, told an Associated Press writer in 2012, "I have said very publicly that if Duke was playing against the Taliban , then I'd have to pull for the Taliban." However, also due to the close proximity of the two schools, there is respect and collaboration within the rivalry. Inspired by the men's basketball teams, twenty-four students from
4425-669: The length of their TV contracts. Prior to this agreement, the Big Ten and Pac-12 also had similar GOR agreements. The Big 12 subsequently assisted the ACC in drafting its GOR agreement. Three of the four major conferences now have such agreements, with the SEC the only exception. The Big 12 is the only major conference that allows members to monetize TV rights for tier 3 events in football and men's basketball. This allows individual Big 12 member institutions to create tier 3 deals that include TV rights for one home football game and four home men's basketball games per season. Tier 3 rights exist for other sports as well, but these are not unique to
4500-436: The lowest participation, each with 4 total members. Lacrosse (3 full members, 3 affiliates) and rowing (4 full members, 2 affiliates) follow with 6 total members. The affiliate members are listed in a separate table below. Women's (and co-educational – see Rifle) varsity sports not sponsored by the Big 12 Conference which are played by Big 12 universities: The Big 12 Conference was founded in February 1994. All eight members of
4575-581: The men's sports sponsored by each member institution. The only men's sports with full participation by the entire conference are basketball, football, and golf. Swimming and diving has the lowest participation with only seven universities fielding a team. The Big 12 fields 14 teams for wrestling. Before the conference's 2023 expansion, it had the most competing schools of any Big 12 sport, with 13 members at that time. The 2022–23 and 2024–25 wrestling lineups both included only 4 full conference members; all remaining wrestling schools were affiliate members (listed in
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#17327977636644650-524: The nation". (since 2005) The following 78 McDonald's All-Americans have signed and played for Duke. As of October 7, 2024, these former Blue Devils players were in the NBA: The Duke–North Carolina rivalry is often ranked among the top rivalries in both college basketball and all North American sports. Entering the 2023 - 2024 season, North Carolina leads the rivalry, winning 141 games to Duke's 115. The Duke Blue Devils face
4725-472: The next 12 years. Bob Verga was Duke's star player in 1967. The basketball program won its 1000th game in 1974, making Duke only the eighth school in NCAA history to reach that figure. In a turnaround, Coach Bill Foster 's 1978 Blue Devils , who had gone 2–10 in the ACC the previous year, won the conference tournament and went on to the NCAA championship game , where they fell to Kentucky . Gene Banks , Mike Gminski ('80) and Jim Spanarkel ('79) ran
4800-679: The non-football West Coast Conference ) and three members of the American Athletic Conference in Cincinnati , UCF , and Houston . These moves, combined with the impending departure of Oklahoma and Texas, would once again increase the Big 12's membership to twelve schools. All four schools began competing in Big 12 athletics beginning in summer of 2023. BYU had initially announced that it would join in 2023, and Houston indicated it could do so as well. On June 10, 2022, The American and its three departing members announced
4875-450: The quarterfinals. Despite having a good record the previous season, the Blue Devils would struggle during the next two seasons finishing with 10 wins in 1982 and 11 wins in 1983. The 1984 team , led by Tommy Amaker & Johnny Dawkins , would bounce back in strong fashion finishing 24–10 and was ranked the No.14 in the AP and Coaches poll, but lost in the second round of the NCAA tournament to
4950-480: The school papers have also engaged in the rivalry. As a tradition, one day prior to a Duke-North Carolina basketball game, The Chronicle , Duke's student newspaper, publishes a spoof cover page for the day's edition with the title The Daily Tar Hole . Contained within are satirical stories poking fun at The Daily Tar Heel and the North Carolina Tar Heels . The Daily Tar Heel typically publishes former columnist Ian Williams' "Insider's guide to hating Duke" for
5025-645: The states of Arizona , Colorado , Florida , Iowa , Kansas , Ohio , Oklahoma , Texas , Utah , and West Virginia . The Big 12 is a member of the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) for all sports. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A), the higher of two levels of NCAA Division I football competition. The Big 12
5100-436: The tournament with the 1978 edition . The Blue Devils have appeared in the NCAA tournament 46 times. Their combined record is 122–40. The Blue Devils have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) five times. Their combined record is 5–6. As of the 2017–18 season, the Blue Devils' program record is as follows. Duke has been ranked as the #1 team in the nation 235 weeks in their history. Duke had not lost
5175-405: The two basketball match-ups each year. There is a longstanding agreement that if Duke wins the first matchup, The Daily Tar Heel ' s masthead is printed in Duke blue, and if North Carolina wins the first matchup, The Chronicle ' s masthead is painted Carolina blue. The losing school's paper also has to put the other school's logo in a conspicuous location and claim that the winning school
5250-493: The two schools got together from January 14–16, 2006 in order to attempt to break the world record for the longest continuous game of basketball ever recorded. The game set a new world record at 57 hours, 17 minutes and 41 seconds with Duke winning the game 3699–3444. All $ 60,000 raised from the marathon benefited the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, an organization which helps children with life-threatening illnesses develop successful life skills through basketball. Beyond athletics,
5325-483: The two teams meet for a third game in the ACC tournament . The teams have met twice in post-season tournament play. In 2022, the two schools met in the Final Four to face each other in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. In that game, the Tar Heels defeated the Blue Devils 81–77. In 1971 the two rivals met in the semi-finals of the NIT, a game also won by North Carolina by a score of 73 - 69. Duke also has rivalries with NC State and Wake Forest, and together with UNC,
5400-591: Was an assistant coach under Chuck Daly of the Detroit Pistons in a precursor to his becoming Team USA coach in 2006 and coaching them to two gold medals. They would later meet Kentucky for another classic regional final game, but blow a 17-point second half lead in losing to the Wildcats. The Blue Devils would lose the 1994 title game to Arkansas and their "Forty Minutes of Hell" defense. The next two seasons would see them fall to just 31–31, though they made
5475-481: Was expanded to 11 games in 2006, meaning that one ACC team would not play. With Nebraska joining the Big Ten in 2011 , the challenge expanded to 12 games and every member from both conferences participated. In 2013, Syracuse , Pittsburgh , and Notre Dame joined the ACC , leaving three ACC teams excluded from the competition. In 2014, Maryland withdrew from the ACC and joined the Big Ten along with Rutgers , giving that conference 14 teams, and Louisville joined
5550-516: Was held for all but the first eight years. The ACC initially played a short-lived interconference basketball series called the ACC–Big East Challenge (1989–1991), Big East coaches such as the late Georgetown coach John Thompson voted to end the ACC–Big East Challenge in 1991, which led to the ACC immediately looking to schedule a new series with the Big Ten as its preferred partner. On November 28, 2022, amid ESPN losing its media rights to
5625-460: Was renamed for Coach Cameron on January 22, 1972. The building originally included seating for 8,800, though standing room was sufficient to ensure that 12,000 could fit in on a particularly busy day. Then, as now, Duke students were allowed a large chunk of the seats, including those directly alongside the court. Renovations in 1987–1988 removed the standing room areas and added seats, bringing capacity to 9,314. Duke's men's basketball teams have had
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