Hubert Davis

UNC played in the national championship game last season. Can they make it that far again? Coach K is gone. Does that change expectations for Duke?

Kansas brought its fourth NCAA title back home Monday thanks to a second-half flurry that erased a 16-point deficit and eventually overcame North Carolina 72-69 in an epic battle of power programs.

The North Carolina Tar Heels will go for their seventh NCAA men's basketball championship Monday night when they face another all-time great program in Kansas.

Fans in North Carolina react to the clash between what may be college basketball's biggest rivalry, as UNC wins over Duke and is headed to the national championship.

In the first-ever NCAA Tournament meeting between the two rivals, the North Carolina Tar Heels beat Duke at the Final Four in New Orleans, 81-77.

Ahead of their first-ever postseason meeting, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Tar Heels’ coach Hubert Davis held press conferences on Tuesday with local media, but both coaches tried to downplay the significance of Saturday’s historic game.

Caleb Love hit game-tying and go-ahead 3-pointers 37 seconds apart and North Carolina moved within a victory of its 21st Final Four, beating UCLA 73-66 on Friday night in a March Madness matchup of power programs.

The minutes are piling up entering Friday’s matchup with UCLA in the East Region semifinals in Philadelphia. Yet that hasn’t stopped the eighth-seeded Tar Heels from pulling off some huge March victories under first-year coach Hubert Davis.

The men’s basketball teams from Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill survived the first weekend and are advancing to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.

The tournament is back in Brooklyn this year rather than its frequent home at the Greensboro Coliseum. But the schools from North Carolina will still be in the spotlight.