In their first meeting with both teams unranked since 1960, North Carolina bested its Tobacco Road rival Duke 91-87 at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday.
Freshman guard Caleb Love led the way for the Tar Heels, dropping a career-high 25 points. Five other North Carolina players finished in double figures.
Blue Devils freshman guard Jeremy Roach finished with a team-high 16 points.
Adding to the surreality of both teams struggling through uneven seasons was the absence of Duke's raucous student section, the Cameron Crazies. Tar Heels coach Roy Williams didn't seem to notice, though.
"It was no difference for me," the Hall of Famer said postgame. "Timeout was the same thing because the music was so loud, I still couldn't talk to my team at timeouts. I could hear them better and they could hear me better during the course of the game.
"But I'm really, really trying to focus a great deal on keeping my mask on. I've got such a big mouth. They can hear me at any point, but we've played 18 games without fans, so we're sort of used to it by now."
