It is Saturday and time for Great Moments in Duke Basketball.
No. 1: North Carolina 96, Duke 92, OT (March 2, 1974)
In what many consider to be the most remarkable comeback in college basketball history, North Carolina rallied from an eight-point deficit with 17 seconds left against Duke to send the game into overtime. The host Tar Heels were trailing the Blue Devils 86-78 when Bobby Jones connected on both ends of a one-and-one. Duke threw away the inbounds pass and North Carolina's John Kuester scored a layup to cut the deficit to four with 13 seconds. The Blue Devils again threw away the inbounds pass and Jones got a putback on a missed shot from Ed Stahl to cut Duke's lead to two with six seconds.
The Tar Heels fouled Pete Kramer with four seconds remaining, and he missed the front end of a one-and-one. Stahl grabbed the rebound and called a timeout with three seconds left. Mitch Kupchak inbounded to Walter Davis, who sank a 28-foot desperation shot as time expired to tie it at 86.
North Carolina went on to win in overtime in what is arguably the most improbable victory in Tar Heels' history.
This has been Great Moments in Duke Basketball.
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