As Marc Antony said, "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
So I come here not to praise Borden, but to make sure that you people, that know nothing about basketball, understand that Borden is correct.
Plus some folks need to understand that in the mid 1960's no one in North Carolina gave one little shit about college basketball.
While back in Kentucky and Indiana we were ready to go to war over most games. The local TV stations carried the Big Ten, SEC, Ohio Valley, Missouri Valley and NBC games of the week. In North Carolina it was crickets!
So I think
@ExecutivePILE needs a course in college basketball history before he tries to tell a bunch of arguing basketball fans (Borden and Bert argue) about shit that happened before North Carolina even knew about the sport of college basketball.
I moved to North Carolina in June 1964 (probably before the "expert" was born). I started dating a girl attending UNC, Greensboro, (remember that in mid-1960's UNC was segregated based on race and sex so she had a different campus instead of those nasty assed boys) and she had no idea about college basketball. Of course I educated her about the sport. That was long before folks in North Carolina had ever seen a college basketball game on TV. It was a sports desert. I would like to know when the first UNC and Duke basketball games was shown on TV.
ESPN in the late 1970's finally introduced North Carolina and Duke basketball. Before ESPN that rivalry was meaningless. ESPN eventually made it important, long after Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Purdue, LSU et.al. had learned to hate each other.
So don't come here, dude, and try to sell a bunch of basketball fans that the best rivalry started in Durham and Chapel Hill, NC. That ain't going to fly.
Why don't you "Learn some cbb history." duffus.