Despite the decisive victory against North Carolina, does it really mean something about Duke’s basketball?

Duke Basketball (19-2, 11-0 ACC) won its 15th straight game after destroying North Carolina Tar Heels (13-10, 6-5 ACC) 87-70 in the first edition of Cameron Stadium rivalry indoors. It was the first match between the Blue Devils and the Tarle TV, which ended with a double-digit victory after the 2021-22 season, when both games between the two rivals ended that way.

Despite the large -scale victory at home against Arch’s rival in the best rival college that basketball can offer, is the victory really so meaningful to the blue devils in the big scheme of this season? Duke Vs. North Carolina is always the most inflated game of the college basketball season, regardless of the records of the two teams, but despite the heated rivalry, the game does not actually help the blue devils resume in the long run.

UNC is a fourth -year decline under the head coach Hubert Davis. Ranking the # 9 team in the pre-season poll of the Associated Press, now Tar Heels is located 13-10 as a whole on the outside of the NCAA tournament balloon.

The heels were one of the last four teams in the field according to Joe Lunari’s marriage before the Duke/UN game last night, but after a 17 -point loss, in which heels never had a chance, they may have fallen out.

Carolina is already 1-9 in games with quadrant 1, with his only Quad 1 victory over Ucla on a neutral floor. The heels are 5-9 in the first two quadrants and now four of their last five games have been dropped. At this point, it will be extremely difficult to make a NCAA tournament offer after Beatdown Duke gave them.

On the part of the Duke, taking the history of the Duke and UNC away, it was just another mediocre ACC team that the Duke has dismantled.

Of the 11 -wins, Duke won 20 or more points in 7 of them. Carolina is just another opponent in the middle of the package in an extremely weak AKS that Duke ran around circles around.

It’s wild to think that the game against UNC was not even Quad 1 opportunity for Duke, but the victory last night is reported as Quad 2 victory. Duke is now 5-2 in Quad 1 and 13-0 in quadrants 2-4.

UNC is 44th in the network, putting it as the 6th highest ACC team in the net rankings. Quad 2’s victory over a net team under 40 and current tournament team, which is not NCAA, really doesn’t make the blue devils so much.

Of course, Duke does what you need in a weak AK. In most cases, it wins each game and wins them comfortably. This is just another example of this.

Usually, the one who won the Duke/UNC matches pays dividends in the selection on Sunday, but that looks a little different, since Duke is one of the three best teams in the nation and UNC looks at the best case.

The next place for the Duke is a passenger against Syracuse (10-12, 4-7 ACC) on February 6 (7:00 pm ET, ESPN2.)