On Monday’s blog post “ The Devil Wears Royal Blue” Allison Day, Jessica Berinson, Megan Canny, Melissa Gagliardi, Scott Burgess explained the brand of the Duke Blue Devils and how their success led them to dominate the basketball court and winning last years NCAA championship. However, last nights game (March 24) was rather surprising for the number one team. The top seeded Blue Devils were defeated 93-77 by fifth-seeded Arizona.
The Arizona Wild Cats head into the Elite Eight for the first time since 2005. They face the third seeded Connecticut Huskies on saturday night.
Interestingly enough the state of North Carolina doesn’t have to give up quite yet. The UNC Tar-heels (Duke’s rivalry) are still in the running for championship. As I write this post, UNC #6 leads the end of the first half 40-15 against Marquette.
The brands of both NC teams are hard to miss and so is their rivalry; get Duke and UNC fans in the same room, there will be a problem. Both teams have combined 9 national championships.
Where does the nickname of “tar-heels” come from? North Carolina in the eighteenth century was a producer of tar and pitch. The nickname dates back to the American Civil War and American Revolution along with the mascot of a live Dorset ram.
The colors of UNC, known as Carolina Blue and white, were designed in the late nineteenth century. Years before, the colors were chosen by the Dialectic (blue) and Philanthropic Societies (white), the oldest student organization in the university.
Also, UNC has the ability to routinely bring on top high school players, and then send them off to the NBA. Some of the biggest players went to UNC, including the Michael Jordan, Vince Carter, Jerry Stackhouse, Antwan Jamison, and Rasheed Wallace (to name a few).
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