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08 03 2008

For all the marbles…or just the Regular Season Title

Posted by: csmith in Basketball

I heard a crazy stat this week that the combined average of fouls for both teams in the Duke/UNC rivalry is 40 per game.  It seems kinda high, but when Duke played at Chapel Hill in February this year, Duke had 24 fouls and UNC had 26 for a combined 50.

When I saw this picture on the Wake boards this afternoon I thought it was a nice example of the kind of fouls we have seen in this hallowed rivalry game.

And don’t worry guys, no pressure tonight.  Just the regular season champs on the line….

Hansbrough and Paulus

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4 Responses to “For all the marbles…or just the Regular Season Title”
  1. mbalbo says:
    March 9th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    yeah carolina!!!

  2. wsutton says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 8:34 am

    Fouls what’s that? I’m glad the refs let the players play with only a few silly fouls in the 2nd half. I think they thought it was going to help Duke by not putting Tyler on the line but by doing that it allowed UNC to play more aggressive defense and the rest of it’s role players stepped up their game. Duke bigs where not ready.

    They must have read your blog before the game and said oh… let’s call only 5 fouls.

    Wayne

  3. Courtney says:
    March 11th, 2008 at 1:56 pm

    Haha, I wish I had that power over the refs, Wayne. I can’t believe the way it turned out. There were only 28 fouls the entire game!

    We’ll see how this goes in the tourney this week…but congrats to the Heels, and your boy Psycho T

  4. mbalbo says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Ms. NC State- when will the UNC rules post be coming up :)

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