Basketball 2014

RIVAL Volume 9 •Issue 3•BASKETBALL 2014

a letter from the editor

staff Editor in Chief

basketball issue 2014

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lthough I’m not one to wear my heart on my sleeve, I have a confession to make: I am in love with Duke basketball.

And not just an innocent crush, but a passionate, never-miss-a-game, holda-boom-box-over-myhead kind of love. It’s truly unexplainable - how can I possibly love a bunch of guys who don’t even know I exist (if you don’t count the one day I was on a first name basis with Marshall Plumlee)? But Duke basketball is more than just some tall guys who can dunk and shoot a three (I’m looking at you, Andre Dawkins). Duke basketball is a religion and our god is Coach K. It’s hard to believe that when I arrived at Duke in 2010, all I knew about Duke basketball was that we had just won a national championship and that my Orlando Magic jersey belonged to a former Duke player (J.J. Redick, who I can’t refer to as just a “former Duke player” now without cringing). I regretfully did not go to a single game freshman year and am ashamed to admit that I even missed watching the Austin Rivers buzzer beater (remember that, Tar Heel fans?).

But a dark blue flip was switched during my sophomore spring, and by junior year I had become a fullfledged Cameron Crazie. By the time I tented for the Duke-UNC game in Cameron, I had already sold my soul to Duke basketball.

Never before have I had my emotions controlled by a sports team, a

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Photo Editor Art Director Social Media/PR Treasurer

Aleise Preslar, UNC-CH Moira Gill, UNC-CH Ilana Wolpert, Duke Eric Kline, UNC-CH

UNC-CH Writers

Caroline Leland Erin Kolstad Mark Dawson

Duke Writers

defense mechanism most Chicago Cubs fans such as myself have been forced to develop.

Before Rival’s UNC readers and staff members freak out and speed to Durham faster than P.J. Hairston, let me assure you that I am fully aware that this letter is an ode to Duke basketball in a Duke-UNC magazine. But as a senior about to graduate, understand that this was my last chance to profess my love for the Blue Devils. And as the first Duke editor of Rival Magazine in years, I am obligated to take advantage of this opportunity to sign this letter with what I’ll be screaming on two different occasions over the next month…

GTHC, Lauren Paylor Editor-in-Chief

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Lauren Paylor, Duke

Jake Klein Ryan Hoerger Emmie LeMarchand Anna Mukamal Rachel Fischell Jessica Lee

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Aleise Preslar, UNC-CH Kate Schneider, UNC-CH Ellie Wilson, Duke Catalina Villegas, Duke Sarah Houck, Duke Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

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in this issue: Roy Williams: Off the court Student-Athlete Leaders pg. 16-19 pg. 20-22 Get an exclusive look at this in-depth feature on UNC-CH basketball coach Roy Williams' life off of the court, as detailed by his daughter Kim.

Learn about the programs at UNC-CH and Duke that leverage sports for the greater good and catalyze leadership development.

Basketball walk-ons pg. 13-15

Poet's Corner pg. 26

Basketball standouts pg. 8-10 Take an in-depth look at Duke and UNCCH's best-performing freshmen basketball players this season.

Meet the “benchwarmers” of two of the Time's New Roman, by Anna Mukamal nation's most esteemed college basketball (By submission) programs.

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UNC’s Walter Davis (#24) playing against Duke in 1974. Read more about the historic rivalry on page 6. (Photo credit: Hugh Morton) Read about Duke freshman Matt Jones and other freshman standouts and recruits on page 8. (Photo credit: Eric Lin)

in every issue: Pregame pg. 4-5

Tar Tracks | Devil's Advocate pg. 14

Athlete's Corner pg. 24

Read about the two men behind the conductor's stands - the directors of UNC and Duke's pep bands.

Two columnists share their perspective on an aspect of student life at both UNC and Duke.

Rival’s sports columnist Ryan Hoerger engages in a back-to-back dialogue with UNC senior Worth Mills about UNC and Duke basketball. Which team is better?

Top V pg. 6-7

By the book pg. 26

Discover the top five “rivalry moments” at both UNC’s Dean Dome and Duke’s Cameron Indoor Stadium.

In this issue, two classes offered at UNC and Duke on the topic of sports and the media are compared side by side.

Out of the blue pg. 27 Our OOTB column puts the spotlight on four UNC and Duke students accomplishing great things.

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PRE Duke Pep Band supports the Blue Devils at the Women’s Basketball Vs. Pitt at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Jan. 26, 2014. Photo by Catalina Villegas, Duke.

By Jessica Lee, Duke Design by Wendy Lu, Duke, and Moira Gill, UNC-CH

Jeff Au, Director of Duke University Marching and Pep Band

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hey’re at every basketball game, dressed in rugby shirts and school spirit, accompanied by a menagerie of brass, woodwinds and drums. They are the Duke University Marching and Pep Band—a.k.a.

DUMB—and they are here to add to the craziness in Cameron.

“Our band members are always into the game and love to provide energy and entertainment,” band director Jeff Au says. “They provide spirit that can only come from our band playing our school songs.

They help the games remain a uniquely Duke experience.”

DUMB has a board of officers and three Drum Majors to recruit new members, represent the band and run logistical tasks crucial to managing the DUMBlings. But even with so many student leaders, every band needs a director.

“I don’t think people realize what goes into being band director,” the president of DUMB, senior Madeline Barrow, says. “He arranges the songs we play and writes drills for

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our shows. He deals with the administrative side of moving more than 100 people in early each year for band camp. He does all of the scheduling and administrative tasks that are a part of working in the Athletic Department.”

Au became Duke’s band director in 2005. “It was the profession for which I thought my talents were most uniquely suited,” Au says. “I love working with college students, I love music and I love marching band. Now I get paid for doing all three. At my last job, I would always look at websites of random bands just to keep up with what was going on in the band world. When I looked at Duke, I thought that there was a lot of potential, and if the job ever came open, I would apply for it. It came open, I applied, I was hired. It was fate.”

Just as Au is passionate about DUMB, the students express similar sentiment for the band director who often goes above and beyond his job description. “Jeff is truly responsible for everything that our band does. He handles all of the logistics behind our scheduling, music, equipment, travel and personnel,” junior Drum Major Drew Cutshaw says. “Jeff also makes sure

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a tale of t he has the best interests of the students at heart. He is always available to his band members and wants to make sure everyone in his band has the best possible experience at Duke.”

Drum Majors conduct during games, while officers are the face of the band. But even though Au often hands the reins to student leaders, he himself is undoubtedly crucial to DUMB. “He doesn’t like to be in the spotlight, but he deserves to be,” Barrow says. “He has turned this organization around since he has been here, and I think that we all want to work to make him proud, not just because we care about him, but because he makes you want to perform at your best.”

And it’s true. Whether Duke is playing against UNC-CH or Maryland, band members are always enthusiastic, sportsmanlike and, as DUMBlings say, “Au da way turnt up.”

“Jeff is the reason our band exists at this level. Since he arrived at Duke, he has constantly strived to improve the quality and strength of our organization,” Cutshaw says. “Without Jeff, the Pep Band wouldn’t be what it is today.”

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By Erin Kolstad, UNC-CH Design by Wendy Lu, Duke

Director of UNC Pep Band for nineteen years, Jeffery Fuchs

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hen walking into a sporting event at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, one of the first things one notices is the pounding beat of the band filling the air with tension and excitement as the Tar Heels prepare to battle for victory. Leading the band is the band director of 19 years, Jeffery Fuchs. With 30 years of experience under his belt, Fuchs is a key figure in the crowds at Carolina games, especially in the Dean Dome. While Fuchs said, “I can’t pick a favorite sport because then the others feel cheated,” basketball games are special because then he is “let out of the box” and better able to engage and interact with the students.

The Carolina-Duke basketball game is especially exciting for Fuchs because of the “electricity it brings to campus.” Fuchs graduated from an extremely small university and therefore relishes the excitement that surrounds the campus in the weeks before the huge rivalry

Jeffery Fuchs directs the basketball pep band in the Dean Dome. Photo by Kate Schneider, UNC-CH.

game. There is no change in how he prepares for the game or the traditions the band has for games – “it is simply more electric.” To prepare for performing at basketball games, Fuchs spends about an hour of his personal time each game to pick the different tunes to perform and to arrange the program. This time does not include how much time is spent arranging each piece, teaching it to the band and perfecting the performance.

Songs that the band perform range from modern hits like Ke$ha and Pitbull’s dance-heavy “Timber” to Carolina classics like James Taylor’s “Carolina on my Mind.” Fuch’s favorite song to perform is “anything that engages the crowd,” like right before the team comes out on the court or songs that involve the student section chanting along.

Some of his favorite moments during the games are not even when the band is actually performing, but rather when the crowd is the most

pumped and excited. “I love when the other team’s coach calls a timeout and the crowd is screaming, just to see how long the screaming will go,” says Fuchs. “We try to egg it on as much as we can before we start playing.” Fuchs says the band’s purpose is to see how engaged they can get the crowd, and he savors the screams as the fans cheer the Tar Heels onto victory.

Like another important figure at Carolina basketball games (none other than Coach Roy Williams), Jeffery Fuchs worked at Kansas University before beginning his career at UNC-CH. He has become an integral part of campus life and the atmosphere during Carolina victories. Under his leadership, the band has grown to embody the Carolina spirit and cheer the teams on to victory (especially when those victories come against the Blue Devils.) As the lyrics in “Vamps”, one of Fuchs’ favorite songs, say, “Go Heels Go!”

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3. The Embrace (1998) Steve Wojciechowski might havebeen the most hated college basketball player this side of Christian Laettner, but the point guard’s intensity was well appreciated by Blue Devil fans. After coming back from 23 down to beat UNC-CH 77-75, Wojo and Coach K shared a poignant moment, celebrating the former’s last game at Cameron and the latter’s 500th victory. night. Gene Banks, who hit the game-winner

1. Banks’ Big Day (1981) The Blue Devils only won 17 games in Coach K’s first season at Duke, but one of them was a 66-65 upset of 11th after forcing overtime with a buzzer-beating jumper, threw roses into the stands before the game.

2. Capel’s Shot (1995) Future NBA all-stars Rasheed Wallace and Jerry Stackhouse put on a show early, leading the Tar Heels to a 17 point lead at the half. But the Blue Devils rallied back to force overtime, setting the stage for Jeff Capel’s miracle buzzer beater to send the game into a second OT. Just don’t ask Duke fans for the final score.

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4. JJ’s Rough Night (2006) JJ Reddick left Duke as the ACC’s all-time leading scorer, but he missed 15 of his final 16 shots at home as the 15th Hansbrough, who never lost a game at Cameron, silenced the Crazies with a clutch three-pointer late in the game to seal the victory.

Bottom left: Duke’s Jeff Capel’s 1995 buzzer beater shot against the second best in the nation, UNC-CH.

Blue Devils

Photo by Sports Illustrated UNC-CH’s Rasheed Wallace makes history in 1995 in this dunking exhibition, alongside Jerry Stackhouse.

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Photo by Duke Photo Store Coach K and Steve Wojciechowski share an embrace after Duke’s 500th win in 1998.

5. The “S Boys Dominate” (2010) The trio of Jon Scheyer, Nolan Smith and Kyle Singler collectively outscored the Tar Heels on senior night as No. 4 Duke beat the Heels 82-50. The Blue Devils would go on to win their fourth National Championship that year.

Senior Brian Zoubek also added 13 rebounds.

Photo by News and Observer

Rivalry Moments

By Jake Klein, Duke Designed by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH

2.Montross Sinks It (1992)

Photo by The Associated Press Tyler Hansbrough’s bloody nose from Gerald Henderson in 2007.

1. Walter Davis’ Buzzer Beater (1974) Down by eight with 17 seconds left in the game, the Tar Heels mounted a furious comeback at Carmichael Auditorium, capped off with Walter Davis’s buzzer beating jump shot to send the game into overtime. The shot would have been a game winner with today’s three point arc, but UNC-CH won the game anyway, 96-92.

Photo by Hugh Morton

In a classic rivalry game, center Eric Montross hit a key foul shot late in the game with blood dripping down his face. The 9th ranked Tar Heels held on to win 75-73, knocking off the top ranked Blue Devils at the Dean Dome.

Dick Vitale rates this hard fought game “number one baby!” in the Duke and UNC-CH rivalry history.

3. May Day (2005) Despite not starting the game, big man Sean May hit super frosh Marvin Williams for a goahead three point play on senior night as No. 2 UNC-CH beat No. 6 Duke 75-73. May, who would lead the Heels to a National Championship, put up 26 points and 24 rebounds.

Walter Davis’ (#24) game-winning buzzer beater in 1974.

Photo by The Associated Press Austin Rivers of Duke won the UNC-Duke game with a buzzard beater in 2012.

4. Bloody Hansbrough (2007) A significant win for several reasons, Tyler Hansbrough scored 26 points in a blowout 86-72 win to clinch the ACC regular season title before Duke guard Gerald Henderson went Rambo on his face. The win was also Coach Roy’s 100th at UNC-CH. 5. The Rivers Shot (2012)

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Replacing Jeff Capel’s buzzer beater as the most over-replayed shot in college basketball history, Duke freshman Austin Rivers buried a three at the buzzer to beat No. 5 UNC-CH 85-84. While the stunned faces of the Dean Dome student section remains one of the lasting images of the rivalry, the Tar Heels would have the last laugh by beating Duke 88-70 at Cameron on Senior Night.

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Photo by Sophia Durand Jabari Parker takes it to the rim in the game versus NC State.

By Jake Klein, Duke Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke

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hey’ve been called Super-Frosh, franchise players, the “Next Big Things” and Diaper Dandies. They have inspired desperate NBA teams to throw away an entire season for the chance at drafting them, prompting frantic proposals to overhaul the lottery process. ESPN even has weekly segments dedicated to tracking their progress. It’s hard to think freshmen were banned from the first 80 years of college basketball. But now there’s no denying 2014 is “The Year of the Freshmen.”

After no first year players were named to last year’s John Wooden

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National Player of the Year Preseason Watchlist, nine freshmen were listed for this season. Six of those nine find themselves in the top 10 of Draftexpress’ top 100 prospects for the 2014 NBA draft. For reference, the sixth true freshman taken in last year’s draft went 29th overall.

In fact, NBA scouts viewed the recruiting class of 2013 so highly that they’ve said at least 4 players would have been taken ahead of anyone last year…as high school seniors.

Never to be outdone on a basketball court, Duke and UNCCH have both received significant contributions from their first year players this season. Here’s a look at how Tobacco Road’s own Fantastic Freshmen have performed so far.

By the numbers Duke and UNC-CH each brought in three recruits from the class of 2013. All six were rated consensus top 100, with four receiving McDonalds All-American Honors. In total, 66 All-Americans have now played for UNC-CH, the most all time. Duke ranks second with 56. The Class of 2013 brings with them 8 state championships, 13 all-state selections, and 4 “Mr. Basketball” awards. Freshmen have scored 28% of the Blue Devils’ offense while bringing down 30% of their rebounds in only a fifth of Duke’s total minutes. The new Tar Heels, on the other hand, have collected 22% of the team’s total rebounds while also racking up 30% of their blocked shots.

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Player Profiles

Jabari Parker (Forward, 6’8” 240 lbs, Simeon Career Academy (IL)) Once heralded as the best high school basketball player since LeBron James, Jabari Parker is simply the best all-around scorer in the Class of 2013. “If he…has the mentality of getting to the paint and getting to the line, he’s the best player in the country,” says teammate Quinn Cook. With the size of a power forward and the skill level of a guard, the McDonald’s All-American has drawn comparisons to NBA AllStars Paul Pierce and Carmelo Anthony with his ability to get buckets from anywhere on the court. He’s already set the Duke freshmen record for twenty point games, and

Photo by Jeffrey Camarati Freshman standout Kennedy Meeks looks to score for the Tar Heels.

is on pace to set the single season first-year scoring record.

The son of former NBA guard Sonny Parker, athleticism runs in the family for Jabari. His maternal cousins include Baltimore Raven’s All-Pro defensive tackle Haloti Ngata and Tony Moeaki of the Buffalo Bills. Rated No. 3 overall in his class by the Recruiting Services Consensus Index, Parker was the first freshmen to play for Chicago’s Simeon Career Academy, the Alma Matter of 2011 NBA MVP Derrick Rose. He won four state championships at Simeon and was twice named Illinois Mr. Basketball. A player of the year candidate, it’s hard to believe Parker’s still working his way back from a foot injury that limited him during his senior year.

Matt Jones (Guard, 6’4” 200 lbs, DeSoto HS (TX)) Matt Jones is the prototypical “3-and-D” player: he’s a knockdown three-point shooter and a tenacious defender. While he’s struggled with his shot early on, Jones’ defensive intensity earned him a spot in the starting line-up when the Blue Devils were uncharacteristically porous on D. “Coach K makes you earn your stripes,” Jones says. “You learn to bring it every day.” In his limited playing time, the McDonald’s All-American has “brought it,” ranking second on the team in steals (2.0) and free throw attempts (7.5) per 40 minutes.

Growing up just outside of Dallas, Jones played AAU ball with fellow 2013er Julius Randle, the No. 2 recruit according to RSCI, of the Kentucky Wildcats. His older sister, Jordan, plays for the Texas A&M Lady Aggies. The Jones’ were only the third brother-sister pair to each

be named McDonald’s All-Americans. If the 13 points he put up in only 16 minutes against Alabama in the NIT Season Tip Off are any indication, the player frequently compared to the NBA’s career leader in 3s made, Ray Allen, has a bright future ahead of him.

Photo by Eric Lin Matt Jones feels the energy in Cameron after a big play against Michigan.

Semi Ojeleye (Forward, 6’7” 230 lbs, Ottawa HS (KS)) Some role players are known for their shooting, knocking down threes when the defense collapses on their teammates. Others earn playing time with grit and hustle, outworking their opponents for loose balls and rebounds. And then there’s the “freaks of nature”, players whose physical abilities alone can make an impact on game. Semi Ojeleye falls into the third category. Arguably the best athlete on the Blue Devils, Ojeleye made headlines before the season even started after

he unleashed a dunk so monstrous, it stopped Duke’s 5-on-5 practice.

If being a human pogo stick wasn’t enough, he also boasts one of the most impressive physiques in all of college basketball.

The 32nd ranked recruit of 2013 has mostly been an energy guy off the bench thus far, but he’s more than a dunk machine. Ojeleye first gained national attention when he went off for 57 points in a league game against Paola HS (KS) last season. However, it wasn’t even his best game, having scored 58 earlier in the season. In fact, Ojeleye combined his freakish athleticism and NBA-ready body with a better than advertised jump shot to become the all-time leading scorer in Kansas high school history. His per 40-minute numbers (15.4 points, 8.6 rebounds, 2.5 blocks, 1.8 steals) suggest Blue Devil fans have a lot more than electrifying dunks to be excited about.

Kennedy Meeks (Center, 6’9” 290 lbs, West Charlotte HS (NC)) No one will ever mistake Kennedy Meeks for a point guard. The misnamed big man may be the best in his class, if not the country, at carving out space. Even after shedding 40 pounds in the offseason, Meeks uses his size and strength to bring down a whopping 15 rebounds per 40-minutes. Not only does he lead the Tar Heels in that category, but the McDonalds All-American sits in the top-10 nationally. Not bad for “only” being the 54th best freshman in the country. Meeks also averages 18.9 points per 40-minutes thanks to his expanding post game and a surprisingly smooth stroke.

But it hasn’t always been pretty for the freshman big. Even after his Biggest Loser impersonation, Meeks

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still has to improve his conditioning if he expects to increase his 16.5 minutes per game. And then there was the Richmond game. Coach Roy told his center that he had played like the worst player in the world after the Tar Heels ten-point win in the first round of the Hall of Fame Tipoff Tournament. Meeks couldn’t hit a shot in a dismal one point, three rebound performance in which he only played five minutes. That game, however, was followed by his best of the season, a 13 point, 12 rebound double-double in an upset win over Louisville. If he can commit to staying in shape and working hard in the post, there’s a bright future for the young man formerly known as “Baby.”

Isaiah Hicks (Forward, 6’8” 220 lbs, J.F. Webb HS (NC)) The season has been a disappointment for Isaiah Hicks so far, but only due to the hype he received as the 15th ranked recruit and McDonalds All-American. Hicks, like Semi Ojeleye at Duke, is easily the best athlete in UNC-CH’s recruiting class, but he’s had trouble converting his physical tools into production. The combo forward has yet to score more than seven points in a game after ending his high school career with 34 points and 30 rebounds to win a state championship.

Lauded for his transition play and defensive ability, the most difficult part of Hicks’ transition has been finding a position. In high school, Hicks could rely on his size and athleticism to dominate lesser competition. At the college level, he lacks the bulk to work the post but doesn’t have the skill level to play out on the wing. His natural position would be power forward,

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but the Tar Heels are set there with James Michael McAdoo and Brice Johnson. Hicks has been more comfortable lately playing small forward, however, knocking down his first career three-pointer against UNC-Wilmington. No matter what position he plays down the road, Tar Heel fans can expect to see high flyer at the rim.

Photo by Jeffrey Camarati Freshman point guard, Nate Britt, looks to control the ball on offense.

Nate Britt (Point Guard, 5’11” 165 lbs, Oak Hill Academy (VA)) Nate Britt’s journey to Division I hoops was the most arduous of the Tobacco Road freshmen. His prep career began at Gonzaga Prep in Washington, DC, where he played one season with Duke guard Tyler Thornton. A consensus top 30 recruit, Britt committed to UNCCH during a junior season that saw him named first-team all-Met (DC’s equivalent of all-state) for the second straight year. He then transferred to Oak Hill Academy, the alma matter of Duke’s other point guard, Quinn Cook, to face the stronger competition of the Washington Catholic Athletic Confer-

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ence. And then the wheels fell off.

A series of injuries and an underwhelming AAU season saw Britt drop to 60th in the RSCI rankings.

His senior season was also a disappointment, capped off with a torn meniscus in December. By the end of the season, he had fallen another 33 slots in the rankings. ESPN even dropped him out of their top 100.

Still, the suspensions of PJ Hairston and Leslie McDonald left a spot in the starting lineup for Britt. The addition of another ball handler in the backcourt has freed up sophomore Marcus Paige to expand his role as a scorer. While Britt has only put up 5.5 points per game, Paige’s own scoring average has doubled from 8.2 ppg to 16.8, an increase Coach K has attributed, in part, to Britt. With McDonald back in starting five, Britt has transitioned to an equally important role: backing up Paige so Coach Roy can keep his leading scorer fresh for crunch time.

Who’s got next?

As impressive as this year’s crop of freshman has been, next year’s might be even better. Duke and UNC-CH have received commitments from seven five-star recruits (the Blue Devils have four while the Tar Heels have three). Duke will be bringing in a pair of top 5 recruits in big man Jahlil Okafor (No.1 in the country) and point guard Tyus Jones (No. 4, No.1 PG) along with wing Justise Winslow (No. 15) and shooting guard Grayson Allen (No. 20). The Tar Heels counter with a pair of top 10 players in swingmen Justin Jackson (No. 8) and Theo Pinson (No. 10) as well as point guard Joel Berry (No. 16). All seven were recently selected as McDonald’s All Americans.

Devil's Advocate:

By Emmie Le Marchand, Duke Design by Wendy Lu, Duke

Cameron Craziness

Let me first say, at the risk of severely offending almost the entire student body, that I think tenting is possibly the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard of.

However hard I try, however obsessed I become with Duke basketball and however high the adrenaline rush gets from being in the student section at a game, I will never think that a three month stint of sleeping under canvas is worth it. I’m not sure I trust even the Duke engineers to create structures advanced enough to keep the tents dry and I am nowhere near convinced that there are enough sleeping bags, blankets and fourway spoons to keep me warm on January nights. Why can’t the amazing chats and fun between tent-mates happen inside an apartment on a sofa? I can’t imagine how any of that could improve the freezing cold nights when a tent-check threatens your shivering sleep at every hour. I wouldn’t endure that to watch England play Germany in the soccer World Cup Final at Wembley.

I completely understand the rivalry, I promise you I do. I’m on a Duke team that beat the top-ranked UNCCH team for the first time in seven years in a penalty shootout under the lights at Carolina with a band playing their fight song and their lively student section yelling their own provoking obscenities from the packed stand above the field. As a field hockey player, I have been a part of the rivalry; I felt it in the blood of my teammates and coaches and everyone in the stadium on that unforgettable day. This rivalry deserves serious devotion, I agree. But risking one’s health, grades, social life and, frankly, sanity, to get a view of the court only when you can dodge the blue afro wig of the Cameron Crazy in front of you is just beyond my comprehension.

If you were to watch the game with a group of friends in an apartment, you could still enjoy the final “personal checks” party in K-Ville and attend the bench-burning and after-party at Shooters. But you could also visit the toilet during timeouts, order pizza and take a sip of beer every time Dawkins sinks a three-pointer (that’s a lot of sips of beer, I might add). You could laugh with your friends without wiping sweat on to each other or craning your neck to nearly get a glimpse of them in your peripherals. You need not display your pit stains to the millions of TV viewers whenever a sunk freethrow requires you to “SWOOSH!” Landing back in Durham after my Christmas holiday in -12 degree cold, my first walk past K-Ville only

Emmie Le Marchand is a Duke senior majoring in English with a minor in French.

convinced me further that tenting was Cameron Craziness. But writing this, I cannot forget that there were two instances this winter holiday that forced me to realize how influential these frostbitten-fans and the program they support actually are and how much more these tenters are than their insane desire to sleep in a tent in the snow.

I first realized when my sister’s boyfriend asked me to bring him back a pair of Duke basketball shorts for Christmas. At a towering 5’6”, Lewis reflected nothing of the towering men that become Adonises when they pull on those shorts and take the court. But he told me they were “comfy” and would look great with the new personalized Nike shoes he was getting for Christmas in black and fluorescent yellow. Apparently his tennis club doesn’t enforce the all-white clothing rule that is sacred at the famous All England Tennis Club at Wimbledon. Instead, Duke basketball shorts are all the rage.

On a more serious note, when I told my friends in England that I was going to Duke, there was only one who really understood how great an opportunity that was and he knew that because of basketball. The image of Oxford is a turreted skyline of yellow stone; Duke’s image is the face of Coach K. Catching up with him again this summer, Ilija told me about the plans for the “Steps of Sporting Success” at the new athletic facility that is being built at our old high school. On a grand staircase inside the building there are to be dedications to successful teams from throughout the school’s history. Ilija had played basketball at school, a sport that had taken the backseat in the minivan to more acknowledged sports teams. Basketball had stolen very few of the best athletes from rugby and soccer, so it was with a sense of long-awaited appreciation that he told me his basketball team was to be dedicated its own step of success. A Duke basketball fan, Ilija had put the sport on my high school map.

So, however ridiculous I might think the tradition of tenting is, the Cameron Crazies are spreading more than just the flu. Spirit, tradition and unabashed dedication are everywhere at Duke and everywhere that Duke touches. Duke is a basketball school, a football school, but first and foremost, a school with incredible spirit. We are four letters: Dedication, Unity, K-Ville, Equality.

Four letters. GTHC.

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Tarheel Tracks:

By Caroline Leland, UNC-CH Design by Wendy Lu, Duke

Anyone can tell you that the upcoming Duke and UNC-CH men’s basketball game represents the biggest rivalry in college sports. I wasn’t too interested in college sports before I actually chose a college, but once I had declared my allegiance to Carolina, I was preoccupied by the question of why: Why is the rivalry between Duke and UNC-CH so huge?

I didn’t find any satisfactory answers until spring of my freshman year, after that year’s basketball season had begun. In preparation for the big game where UNC-CH hosted Duke in the Dean Dome, my editors at The Daily Tar Heel asked me to find out more about the history of the rivalry. So I dutifully worked my way through a long list of bigname people I had never heard of (being the fair-weather sports fan that I am).

I heard many reasons suggested for why UNC-CH and Duke are such huge rivals. The geographical proximity of the two schools is an obvious one. The comparable talent of both teams is a crucial component. The academic rigor and success of both schools definitely feeds into the rivalry while the national reputation of the two schools contributes as well.

So I was surprised to find out that Duke hasn’t been UNC-CH’s rival for very long. Though it may seem strange now, historically UNCCH’s biggest rival in basketball was N.C. State University.

In recent past, a favorite chant of UNC-CH fans when playing N.C. State in football or basketball has been “Not our rival!” intending to

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why we love to hate insult the Wolfpack by suggesting that their team isn’t a worthy opponent. No one questions the premise now, but I found through my Daily Tar Heel reporting that it’s a relatively new sentiment.

Duke has always been a competitor because of geographical proximity, but not always because of talent: that “biggest rival” spot used to belong to N.C. State. When N.C. State and UNC-CH players were accused of point shaving in the 1961 basketball tournament Dixie Classic, the intensity of the UNCCH and N.C. State rivalry was at its peak. Former UNC-CH basketball player Phil Ford assured me that when he was in college in the mid70’s, “N.C. State was the big game.”

N.C. State maintained a long winning streak against UNC-CH in 1974, a year they won the national championship. But when UNC-CH beat N.C. State in the 1975 ACC tournament, the old rivalry reached a turning point. From that point on, UNC-CH has almost always been ahead of State in basketball.

Former UNC-CH sports radio analyst Draggan Mihailovich told me that he sees January 1984 as the true beginning point of the rivalry between UNC-CH and Duke.

Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski accused ACC referees of favoring UNC-CH unfairly.

“It was the start of the war,” Mihailovich said. UNC-CH’s men’s

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UNC junior Caroline Leland is a journalism major who has written for Rival since the beginning of her freshman year.

basketball has always been one of the nation’s top programs, and when Krzyzewski took charge of Duke’s team, we had the last spark that was needed for the awaiting bed of tinder that is the infamous rivalry between Duke and UNCCH. So now we know the how and why of the rivalary. But I seek a deeper why. I’m still left wondering.

Yes, we’re rivals. We compete fiercely; we want to beat each other. But why do we love to hate each other?

Why do people tell me I can’t love both schools? Why do we let the hate consume us and expand to include anyone associated with the other school?

I’m all for a good competition.

Life is boring if you don’t work to be better, whether it’s getting a higher grade than your classmates or striving to be a more forgiving and generous person than who you are now. But keep competition where it belongs. Leave it on the court or on the field. Leave it in the classroom.

Don’t let it consume you.

Carolina students can still scream, “Go to hell, Duke” at the end of our alma mater. Duke students can yell the same insult at us. But this year, when we’re in the stadium bleachers supporting our teams during that big matchup, let’s try to keep in mind that we’re rivals because we are worthy opponents. And every worthy opponent deserves respect.

Much More Than

Benchwarmers A Look Inside the Walk-Ons at UNC-CH and Duke

Wade Moody charges down the court for the Tarheels.

By Rachel Fischell, Duke Designed by Jessica Lee, Duke Photos courtesy of Jeffrey Camarati

At both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, two D1 schools with extraordinary athletic programs, a majority of the basketball players are recruited during their senior year of high school. For players who are often offered full scholarships to one of the best schools in the nation to do something they love, what could be better?

When someone says, “Duke Basketball,” thoughts im-

mediately turn to big names from the past few years - Kyrie Irving, Austin Rivers and Jabari Parker.

Similarly, the mention of “North Carolina Basketball” has the tendency to remind recent fans of the notorious Harrison Barnes or the infamous P.J. Hairston. However, the success of a celebrated basketball program such as those found at UNC-CH or Duke cannot be completely credited to its star players. An integral part of both of these teams that is frequently overlooked is the members frequently referred to as ‘walk-ons’. The walkons are those players who were not

recruited nor offered scholarships, but those who were still skilled enough to be deemed worthy of a spot on one of America’s best college basketball teams.

Meet Duke's Todd and Nick

At Duke, the only current athletes who ‘walked’ onto the team are senior Todd Zafirovzki and freshman Nick Pagliuca. After three years with the ‘walk-on’ designation, the first of which he was red-shirted, Zafirovzki earned a scholarship for his last two years at

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Duke. A four-time letter winner in high school, Zafirovzki started in over 100 career games at Lake Forest Academy in suburban Chicago.

Despite Zafirovski’s apprehension that his credentials would fail to earn him acceptance at Duke, he was accepted to the #7 university in the country. He proceeded to attend practices during the first week of the fall semester and, during the first workout of his college career, the 6’9” freshman was matched up against the infamous 7’1” Brian Zoubek.

After nearly a full semester of hard work, Coach K offered Zafirovzki a spot on the team in December 2009. Despite 21 minutes of court-time and three attempted shots over the course of two full seasons, Zafirovski still hadn’t scored a point for Duke. Finally, at the beginning of his senior year with six minutes left in the game against Delaware, Zafirovski’s second attempt scored him his first career points. The game ended in an 88-50 victory and, since then, Todd has appeared in six other games, totaling 17 career games.

Frequently, at the end of a game that will inevitably end in a blowout, the Cameron Crazies can be heard chanting, “We want Todd” or simply shouting Zafirovski’s name. In a 2012 interview with the Chronicle, Zafirovski declared, “I’d much rather win and not play than lose and play, and luckily I’ve never played in a loss.”

On the opposite end of the spectrum, Nick Pagliuca, a 6’3” freshman from Massachusetts, has not yet seen any playing time.

Pagiluca is the son of Stephen Pagliuca, partial owner of the Boston Celtics and the younger brother of former Blue Devil walk-

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on, Joe Pagiluca. As the only other freshman to be offered a spot on the 2013-2014 roster next to Jabari Parker, Nick’s career is still young.

As the recipient of Milton Academy’s sportsmanship award, Pagliuca led his school to a 20-5 record and a trip to the NEPSAC semifinals as a senior. That year, Milton Academy won its first Independent School League championship. In his four seasons with the Blue Devils, his older brother, Joe, played in 11 games. Nick Pagliuca has yet to hit the court, but Joe Pagliuca's old No. 45 is apparently available.

Meet UNC-CH's Wade, Denzel, James, Luke and Jackson

North Carolina’s current roster includes five walk-ons, all of whom are juniors or seniors.

All three of UNC-CH’s senior walk-ons played two seasons on UNC-CH’s junior varsity team.

Senior Wade Moody, a North Carolina native, began playing for the Tar Heels in October of 2012 as a junior. In his three seasons as a varsity player at Mount Airy High school, Moody averaged 12 points and four assists per game. Meanwhile, Moody served as an active Denzel Robinson gets physical guarding the opponent.

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member of the National Honors Society and the Vocational Honors Society. As senior class president of his high school, he even played a year of varsity baseball. A veteran of UNC-CH’s junior varsity program, 6’0” Moody racked up playing time in 13 games last season while scoring a total of 5 points.

After the UNC-CH vs. UNC-W game last season, Roy Williams commented, “My favorite play of the game was Wade Moody...Wade had a chance to go down and lay it up. Even though he hadn't scored all year, he didn't hesitate and he passed it to Isaiah Hicks and [Hicks] dunked it.” Moody’s character as a dedicated team player was demonstrated very clearly in this simple act.

6’4” senior Denzel Robinson played four years of varsity basketball at Chapel Hill High school, averaging 10.4 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game as a senior. After two years of JV ball at UNC-CH, he joined UNCCH’s varsity team at the same time as teammate Wade Moody. During his junior season, Robinson saw 17 minutes of action in 12 games throughout the season, scoring two points and snagging four rebounds. His father, Steve Robinson, has served as an assistant

James Manor gets off a shot as the Carolina crowd looks on.

to Roy Williams for the past 13 years and is the former head coach at both the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma as well as at Florida State University.

The third senior member of UNC-CH’s team is 6’6” James Manor who also joined the team after two years on UNC-CH’s junior varsity team. Interestingly, Manor has been playing with teammate Denzel Robinson since their freshman year of high school in 2006. Not only did they play together for four years in high school, but also for two years on UNC-CH’s junior varsity team and

then for the past year and a half as full-fledged varsity athletes. As a power forward at Chapel Hill High School, Manor was the captain of his team as a senior and also managed to play two seasons of varsity lacrosse. As a junior at UNC-CH, he scored four points and grabbed three rebounds over the course of 12 games.

Junior Luke Davis transferred to UNC-CH from Gardner-Webb after playing for the Bulldogs in the 2010-2011 season.

At Ravenscroft High School in Raleigh, Davis was named TISA Conference Player of the Year and

helped lead Ravenscroft to the state finals as a junior. Incidentally, Davis was teammates with Duke’s legendary Ryan Kelly during the last two years of his high school career. As a freshman in college, he started in 30 of the 32 games that he played for Gardner-Webb and played a team-high 32.3 minutes per game. The following season, he sat out as a transfer at UNC-CH. In the 2012-2013 season, however, the 6’0” guard scored his first basket as a Tar Heel - a three-pointer against Florida Atlantic. In one game against Chaminade University, Davis was considered Carolina’s top defender.

The fifth and final walk-on on UNC-CH’s current roster is junior Jackson Simmons. The 6’7” forward set the high school record for career rebounds in North Carolina with a total of 1,554 and was the leading scorer in Smoky Mountain High School history with 1,916 points. As a freshman at UNC-CH, Simmons scored a total of 15 points and retrieved 17 rebounds in 23 games. During the 2012-2013 season, he made 21 of his last 27 field goal attempts and finished the year 25 for 38 from the floor. Based on current trends, the next year and a half certainly looks promising for Simmons.

Although some walk-ons have made more contributions to their team than others, their presence, support and positivity is invaluable to the success of both Duke and UNC-CH. These players should absolutely be applauded for their dedication to a team for which they rarely get to compete, for their bravery in trying out for a team that doesn’t hold tryouts and for their consistent contributions to their respective teams.

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Roy Williams

By Anna Mukamal, Duke Design by Moira Gill, UNC-CH

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here is one truth that many North Carolinians hold to be self-evident: Roy Williams is one of the greatest basketball coaches in the history of college basketball. This is exactly why a fan of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill basketball team is a “Tar Heel born” and a “Tar Heel bred,” according to the team’s fight song. But if you think the fan loyalty stops there, wait for the song’s second line: “And when I die, I’m a Tar Heel dead.” Clearly, Carolina fandom transcends time.

Of course, then there’s the classic rivalry between the basketball teams at UNC-CH and Duke University. Duke fans’ faithfulness is not commonly questioned; the student section of the infamously enthusiastic Cameron Crazies is, according to GoDuke.com, “copied, but never matched.” Undergraduate and graduate students, alumni and their families, and otherwise connected North Carolinians alike invest time, energy and money in supporting their Tobacco Road team of choice. For many families, basketball fandom is almost a genetic quality. That is, many Duke and UNC-CH fans claim to possess so much charismatic pride for their “naturally selected” team that they bleed Duke or Carolina blue, respectively.

Inevitably, this family-based tradition of basketball fandom

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North Carolina coach Roy Williams speaks with freshman players J.P. Tokoto (25), Joel James (0), Brice Johnson (5) during the team’s NCAA college basketball media day in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012. (AP Pho

is found in the family of the Tar Heels’ fearless leader himself, Roy Williams. Fans seem to know everything that pertains to Williams’ career as a basketball coach after he spilled telling ink in Hard Work: A Life On and Off the Court. This 2009 autobiography is replete with details of his 15 seasons as head coach at the University of Kansas as well as of his role in UNC-CH’s 2005 National Championship victory. Still, as a public figure, Coach Williams is simultaneously transparent and enigmatic.

As much as his fans know about

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his career as a basketball coach, what do they know about his family? What about his life off of the basketball court or in the locker rooms? A man is certainly worth more than the sum of his parts, and while Williams has devoted many of his salient “parts” to the sport he loves, he is also a family man.

The Williams family moved to Kansas in 1988 right before Williams’ daughter, Kim, turned nine years old. While her dad was still coaching in Kansas, Kim moved back to North Carolina to attend

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rice Johnson (11) and Marcus Paige 12. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)

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UNC-CH in the footsteps of her brother, Scott, and most of the rest of her family.

A freshman from out-of-state, Kim Williams only knew her brother, a senior, when she arrived in Chapel Hill. “College was such a great growing experience for me,” she says. “I ended up being an English major because I’ve always been a book nerd. I will fully admit that I never drank out of the Old Well water fountain, but somehow I lucked out because I still loved college life.”

This came as no surprise to

Roy Williams, who also attended UNC-CH. During college, Williams volunteered to score games under the Tar Heels’ former coach, the legendary Dean Smith. Years later, Williams also served as the assistant coach under Smith for 10 years from 1978-1988. Kim says that after coaching at Kansas, there were many personal factors—such as his father and sister being sick— that pulled her dad back to North Carolina. Roy Williams became the head coach at UNC-CH in the spring of 2003, one year after his daughter graduated.

Kim truly embodies her family’s multidimensional nature—basketball means a lot, but it isn’t everything. As a child, she spent as much time watching the cheerleaders and dancers on the side of the court as she did spectating the basketball games. Although she played organized basketball until her freshman year of high school, Kim was “good, but never going to be great” and “liked it, but didn’t love it.”

So, it wasn’t just “rebellion” against basketball being “huge” in her house growing up that drove Kim to become a dancer. When

Williams shares an intimate moment with his wife, Wanda (right), and daughter, Kim (left), after winning the 2005 NCAA championship. (Photo credit: LJWorld)

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Though her dad is a famous basketball coach, Kim Williams found her passion in dance. (Photo by Angus Lamond)

she was 10 years old, Kim participated in an 8-week “spirit squad” clinic that allowed her to perform dances at the halftime shows of some of the University of Kansas’ athletic events. She continued dancing until her college years when she actively performed as a member of the UNC-CH Dance Team.

“After graduation, I decided that dance was what I loved and what I wanted to do,” says Kim. After teaching dance in Kansas for a few years, she founded The Dance Spot, her own dance studio offering ballet, tap, lyrical and hip-hop in Huntersville, North Carolina.

“It’s a whole new ballgame, now,” says Kim. “I find myself stopping and realizing: ‘Hey, I really am the boss.’”

Kim does not have children, but her brother, Scott, is raising his four and two-year-old sons to love basketball. “My nephews can go to any game they want and they even sometimes go on the court—in full

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Carolina gear, of course—to sit on the bench with my dad,” Kim says.

“Dad likes having them around even when he’s in the middle of his basketball time.”

According to Kim, Roy Williams is a multi-sport lover. He avidly plays golf from April to October (not during basketball season).

A huge baseball fan, Coach Williams traveled to watch Carolina’s team play in the College World Series for the past two years. While Kim says basketball is “definitely the biggest part” of her dad—“he’s spent his entire life immersed in the sport”—she says that “it’s definitely not everything there is to him.” Of course, it’s fairly normal for people to get wrapped up in their careers. “I do kind of have to laugh sometimes,” Williams says, “When we’re sitting down to a family dinner and Dad pipes in and relates everything we say back to basketball.”

Still, Williams says her dad does take the time to “just hang out,” especially now that he has grandchildren. “He and my mom are total putty in their hands,” Kim says. “My little nephews could get

anything they want out of either one of them. It’s hilarious watching Dad. He’s spent the majority of his life interacting with high school and college kids, so it’s kind of funny to see my nephews run him around.”

Kim concedes that it’s pretty easy to get tickets as the daughter of the head coach, but that she has limited access to the high-demand tickets (read: the Duke-UNC game). Still, Williams says: “Dad will never turn a ticket request down to someone in the family, even to the Duke and Carolina game.”

She says another perk of being Roy Williams’ daughter is the opportunity to travel with the team. “When we were younger, we accompanied Dad on all of his big, basketball-related trips,” she says.

“The majority of times I’ve been to Hawaii and New York, and the one and only time I’ve ever been to Paris, I was traveling with the team.” Kim says she didn’t even allow her dad to leave her behind when the team went to Hawaii last Thanksgiving.

Kim doesn’t have an answer

Williams sitting with his grandson on the sidelines during a UNC basketball game. (Photo: News and Observer)

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Roy Williams may be a dedicated coach to UNC and his players, but he is also a family man, pictured here with his wife, children, grandchild, and in-laws. (Photo credit: nabcwives.com)

for people who ask her what it’s like to be the daughter of one of the greatest coaches in basketball.

“It’s all I’ve ever known,” she says.

“I don’t know what it’s like to not have a dad who’s on television or in the newspaper all the time.”

Regarding the historic relationship between Duke and UNC-CH, Williams thinks that “it truly is one of the best rivalries in college basketball.”

“It brings a whole new dynamic, good and bad, to all of the games,” she says. “It’s just amazing to have two highly successful programs so close together.” Still, she wishes that people were more aware of how much the two universities cooperate and collaborate. “Outside of the university system, people think the two universities hate each other because they only see the sports dynamic,” Kim says.

“Really, the universities are very closely linked.”

By the same token, Kim thinks that people sometimes “go overboard with their expressions of rivalry in the sports department.” Yet she admits that she is just as guilty of this since she “never set foot on

Duke’s campus for a lot of years.”

“I mean, basketball’s not so big of a deal that it saves lives or anything like that,” she says. “Dad’s not out there protecting our country or fighting wars, but some people view basketball as equally important.” Kim finds this fact slightly scary. Still, she had enough school spirit that she refused to go to a basketball game in Cameron Indoor Stadium until a couple of years ago. “I always thought, ‘I’m a Carolina girl. I can watch the Duke games from home and go to the games in Chapel Hill,’” Williams says.

As to her eventual experience in Cameron? “Oh, it was fine, but there’s a whole different vibe in there, with the old-school bench seating and the fact that it’s definitely one of the craziest places to be as a visitor,” she says, adding that “there’s always going to be somebody that takes it too far.”

Once, when Williams’ boyfriend went with her to a Duke game, a Cameron Crazie “cussed him out” for wearing a Carolina shirt. “It’s not that Duke students are evil,” she says, “But they’re certainly

intense.”

Kim makes an effort to go to as many Carolina games as she can, watching them on television when she can’t. She admits that she doesn’t watch basketball unless it’s a UNC-CH game. “I will only watch an NBA game if it has a player that Dad coached at some point or another,” she says.

Clearly, Roy Williams has produced some of the most talented players in college and professional basketball. So, in coaching college basketball, what’s the catch? There are certainly plenty of benefits, but could there possibly be a cost to Williams’ status in the world of sports? Kim says that “any job has good and bad aspects” and that when she was a child, her dad would be on the road recruiting players for the entire month of July. “I sometimes worried that he worked too hard,” she says. “But you have to put it in perspective.

There are plenty of other careers that are more stressful than that of a college basketball coach.”

If there is a downside to her dad’s job, Kim says it’s the constant scrutiny from Carolina fans.

“Everybody and his brother thinks they could be a basketball coach,” she says. “There’s always going to be, ‘Why didn’t he win that game last night?’”

Kim says that the constant attention can get pretty annoying sometimes, but she rests assured that her dad is “one of those lucky people who figured out what he loved doing and found a way to make a career out of doing it.” She says basketball is definitely his job and his career, but also his passion.

“He loves every second of it,” she says. “He truly does.”

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Creating the leaders of tomorrow, today

By Sofia Stafford, Duke Design by Elise Bruguera, Duke

Photo by Alex Clayton Cameron Campbell and Jarrod James, both members of the Carolina football team, at the 2013 Leadership Academy year-end banquet.

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hat immediately comes to mind when you think of Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?

Besides great academics, it is likely related to sports. The notorious UNC-Duke rivalry includes a lot of body paint, long cold nights of tenting and the loss of your voice from cheering. Those who boast one of two shades of blue and are lucky enough to call one of the campuses their home experience first-hand the craze around sports. However, these effects cascade far wider than most realize.

Athletics at these two universities are helping to cultivate leader-

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ship and global citizenship through programs that impact student-athletes and other members of the school communities. That is why in the last ten years, efforts on behalf of both Duke and UNC-CH have been made to leverage sports for the greater good. The athletic programs at both schools are being used as catalysts for leadership development for undergraduates, graduates and, in some cases, coaches.

At Duke University, the Fuqua/ Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center (COLE) seeks to “redefine leadership and develop leaders for emerging global challenges.” The Center, established by Duke’s Fuqua

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School for Business in collaboration with Duke Athletics and the Kenan Institute of Ethics, provides students in the business school an opportunity to apply the skills learned in the classroom to help solve global problems. By drawing on research of distinguished scholars and the practical experiences of Coach K and major CEOs, it develops “leaders of consequence” and focuses on using leadership in service of society. COLE exemplifies the power of combining Fuqua’s mission with Duke’s culture of global citizenship in order to shape our future change agents.

“Sports is a prime laboratory for

leader development,” says COLE executive director and Duke alumnus, Sanyin Siang. “So much of what happens on the court or field – from the ambiguity, chaos and fast pace – mirrors the challenges we face in organizations. We draw from lessons for what works, translate them, and apply those beyond sports. Just as today’s athletes need to be team-oriented, able to bounce back from failure and possess a drive for betterment, today’s leaders need to be collaborative, resilient and deeply curious.”

Photo by Duke Photography The Center works with various Mike “Coach K” Krzyzewski welcoming leaders to the Annual Fuqua/Coach K Leadership groups on campus to build on existSummit. ing programs as well as develop new ones. It also has two annual events in different fields who share lessons will provide readers with the buildthat convene prominent CEOs such of “triumph over failures, challeng- ing blocks for a career of meaning, service, growth and purpose. as Sheri McCoy (CEO of Avon), es and self doubt.”

Similarly, the Richard A. Baddour “Hearing their life stories, their Mark Reuss (CEO of General Motors) and Blair Sheppard (Global failures, their struggles and their Carolina Leadership Academy at Strategy and Leadership Develop- proudest moments is very inspi- UNC-CH works to leverage athletment leader at PwC) to learn, share rational,” says Busch. The Center ics to develop leaders on Carolina’s and connect with each other. In ad- imparts a valuable lesson on MBA campus and beyond. Through caredition, the center offers an intern- students and interns who have the fully designed programming, the ship program for undergraduate opportunity to reap the benefits of Academy emphasizes the imporstudents to hone leadership skills the programs offered by the center tance of leadership development and gain exposure to the current – there is no right or wrong way to by providing student-athletes with lead and being a leader means con- leadership training and coaches challenges leaders face.

“Working at COLE has provided stantly evolving to become a better with the tools they need to successme with phenomenal networking version of oneself. Later this year, fully partner with their athletes. opportunities, and has also taught interns will also work on a new se- The Academy was founded to fill a me so much about how to become ries, #ExceptionalCareer, which will void that coaches and other faculty the leader that I strive to be,” says appear on the Huffington Post and thought was necessary to continue to maintain Carolina’s Lauren Busch, a student competitive edge in the intern and Duke senior athletic arena. During the majoring in English with 2012-2013 school year, a certificate in Policy the Academy providJournalism and Media ed student-athletes with Studies. more than 6,000 hours of Student interns work leadership training. Curon the COLE LifeChat rently in its tenth year of Collections, a part of the programming, it offers center’s Women’s Leaderseveral initiatives and ship Initiative. The colPhoto by UNC Athletic Communications lection offers a personal Members of the Veteran Leaders program pose on the helipad atop UNC opportunities to equip student-athletes with the look at powerful women Hospitals during a visit.

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skills they need to succeed as role models and difference makers both on and off the field.

Zoe Skinner, a UNC-CH senior on the Women’s Lacrosse Team, has been named a Distinguished Leader because of her involvements and contributions to the Academy.

“I have not only been mentored by the finest student-athlete development team in the country but I have been given the skills and responsibility to mentor those that come to Carolina in years to come,” Skinner says. The Carolina Academy prepares students to make a long-lasting impact in whatever fields they choose to pursue after college. Like many of the Veteran Leaders, she is looking forward to imparting what she has learned on the younger members of the team and staying actively involved as an alumna.

According to Director Shelley Johnson, the Academy’s programming has been designed by a task force of people who represent business, military, and academic perspectives. At the core of the Academy’s programming is CREED, a

Photo by Alex Clayton A display inside the Loudermilk Center for Excellence honors past winners of the Leader of Distinction Award.

yearlong initiative specifically designed for all freshman athletes that focuses on personal leadership development including responsibility, accountability, making good choices, ethics and character building.

CREED also provides programming for coaches to help them understand how to help their athletes leverage their leadership skills on the field.

After their first year, the level of involvement with the Academy varies for most student-athletes. Select sophomores and juniors can opt to participate in the “Rising Stars” program, which provides these future leaders with the insights, strategies and skills necessary to effectively lead.

The “Gap Year” program follows and is an opportunity for continued leadership reflection and application. The capstone of the program is designed for team captains and veteran student-athletes to receive advanced leadership training and Photo by Alex Clayton support. This empowers Zoe Skinner, senior at UNC, studies in the library after them with the skills neclacrosse practice.

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essary to be effective vocal leaders and mentors in their communities and in the work force.

The Academy’s benefits have been measured in both quantitative and qualitative ways. The results of interviews and surveys taken before and after participation in the program indicate that student-athletes’ experiences and success are greatly impacted by the Academy.

It has especially helped shape the way student-athletes view leadership in their personal and athletic pursuits both on the campus and beyond Carolina. Director Johnson describes graduates of the program who receive leadership training as “objects of companies’ affection” because of the skills they have to be effective, successful employees.

The centers at both universities exemplify how both Duke and UNC-CH can work together to unlock students’ potential and generate a positive impact along Tobacco Road and around the world. Through these initiatives, everyone from student-athletes to coaches and graduate students has the opportunity to gain confidence in their abilities to ultimately lead more effectively.

Athlete's Corner Columnists: Ryan Hoerger, Duke, and Worth Mills, UNC-CH Designed by Jessica Lee, Duke

Worth Mills: Is this year’s argument supposed to be about which team is worse?

Let’s be honest, neither team is playing anywhere near the level most expected before the season. But at least our players (unlike some over-hyped freshman in Durham) will stick around after this season so that we can make a run in March next year. Does having to heavily rely on Rasheed Sulaimon next season give y’all nightmares?

Ryan Hoerger: Let’s not jump to that conclusion right off the bat here – Jabari Parker is dynamic, but he can still be even better and could benefit from sticking around. As for next year, I don’t think Duke will have to rely on any single person - the No.1-ranked recruiting class should help with that. Either way, I would rather rely on a single person than not be able to rely on anyone, which is what we’re seeing from UNC. Are you already throwing in the towel this year?

WM: Absolutely not. All it takes is Marcus Paige to get our offense going again and we can beat anybody. Just ask Michigan State.

RH: UNC would be a serious challenger against top teams in the tournament, but you’d probably lose to a mid-major like Belmont or UAB in the opening round anyways.

How does such a talented team consistently under-perform in games they’re favored to win, even at home?

WM: Unfortunately for Duke, we play you twice regardless, even if we lose to some mediocre teams along the way. It’s the big games that UNC gets up for, and it’s those games we win. Duke hasn’t been great on the road; for as outdated and small as Cameron Indoor is, you folks sure hate playing away from there.

RH: Considering Duke has won in the Dean Dome the past two years and that UNC has three home losses to unranked teams through January 23, they might be fine. UNC certainly didn’t “get up” for the Syracuse game, though. Let’s touch on the whole P.J. Hairston situation - happy the distraction is gone, or wishing he was still launching ill-advised jumpers?

WM: Glad you asked about P.J. Do I wish he was still playing for UNC? Definitely.

Am I losing sleep over it? Not anymore. The investigation took entirely too long (UNC fans are used to this), but I’m glad he has a chance to play before the NBA Draft. Did you see him put up 40 points for his D-League team January 24? Looks like P.J. may add his name to the long list of standout Tar Heels in the NBA. Even if you include Kyrie Irving (which you shouldn’t) Duke’s NBA alumni are flops and underachievers.

RH: Yeah, I’m sure plenty of Duke students are keeping an eye out for that investigation of the literacy levels of UNC athletes. The Crazies have to be bummed that P.J. didn’t at least stay on the sidelines for the rest of the year; they would’ve given him a warm welcome. In recent years, I’d give the edge to Duke’s army of NBA veterans. Kyrie’s an All-Star starter, J.J. Redick’s lighting it up with the Clippers and Shane Battier has two NBA (1/2)

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titles in as many years. Who’s the best UNC pro right now? Kendall Marshall on the tanking Lakers? (2/2) WM: Kyrie played in 11 games at Duke. ELEVEN. Let’s chill with the Kyrie-mania.

You must not watch a lot of sports, because Danny Green set the NBA Finals record for 3’s made in a single series only seven months ago. I guess both you and Greg Paulus are blocking Danny Green from your respective memories. Here’s some simple math: 132>104 and 6>4. That would be UNC’s head-to-head record against Duke and each school’s number of national titles. Guess who has six?

RH: I remember Danny Green playing pretty well in the Finals as fifth banana on his team, and that he shot 2-for-19 in Games 6 and 7 when the Heat decided to guard him. Did you know Syracuse wants be our rival? They’ve been selling “Beat Duke” shirts all year and camped out for the February 1 game, just like we do in K-Ville. I didn’t hear about anything similar happening when UNC went to the Carrier Dome...

WM: I’ve got two theories on why Syracuse tried to hype up that game: 1) Most of each school’s student bod­y is made up of New Yorkers, so I suppose that gives you some common ground. 2) Duke is easily the most-hated program over the last 20 years. It’s the flopping, the goofy players, the floor-slapping, the coach - the list goes on.

RH: I guess that’s the price of winning.

Photo courtesy of Worth Mills.

Worth is a senior business major and a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity. His all-time favorite Carolina basketball player is Bobby Frasor.

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Photo courtesy of Ryan Hoerger.

Ryan is a Duke sophomore. He plays trombone in the Duke University Marching Band.

by the book Course Name Course Number Professor Offered in Spring 2014?

Required Books

side-by-side comparison of similar classes at UNC and Duke Sports Media

Sports and the Media

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Timothy Crothers Yes

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The Man Watching and Hard Work by Timothy Crothers

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Poets’ Corner Times New Roman

By Anna Mukamal, Duke Photo and design by Alexandria Clayton, UNC-CH Something just occurred to me.

Have you ever thought about the fact that seconds tick by even if you're not watching the clock?

Did you ever think that maybe they go faster when you're not looking?

They do.

I think they do.

Unglue your eyes for a fraction of an instant—less than a second—and they scurry away into oblivion.

You will never get them back.

They march on away like tiny black ants, they have things to do and people to see.

They do.

I'll bet they do.

If there's somewhere so important that they need to be that merits them taking me away from you in seconds minuscule ephemeral they never existed in the first place because as soon as they counted one two three they were gone they disappeared before they ever happened that's the nature of a second because as soon as you part with the first you get a second and a second and a second.

But the terrifying part, the part that keeps me awake counting ineffable, invisible, unsounded clicks is that nobody—not even the Inventor of time himself—knows what happened to the first.

I will be the New Roman who etched out the Time.

The seconds will fear me.

They will become firsts, instants.

Manipulated. By me.

Moments, malleable.

Mine.

Look how your heart stopped at the thought of something so timeless—autonomy, final freedom from the finiteness.

They already quake in terrorized respect.

I own them, I do.

I hope I do.

Submit your poetry to lauren.paylor@gmail.com for a chance to be published in the next issue of Rival Magazine.

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H a y l e e L e v i n

J e n n y S h e r m a n Z a c h S i c k i n g B r e n t C o m s t o c k

Out of the Blue

When she isn’t in the dance studio perfecting her choreography, Duke freshman Haylee Levin is rehearsing with Momentum Dance Company, a multi-style female dance group. Primarily a ballet dancer, Levin has performed in various roles with her native South Florida studio —in fact, she’s been in the Nutcracker every holiday season since she was seven years old! After traveling to South Africa for the Genée International Ballet Competition in 2011, Levin fell in love with traveling and multiculturalism. An International Comparative Studies major at Duke, Levin Photo courtesy of is focusing her academic attention on Russia and Central Asia. She enjoys keepHaylee Levin. ing up-to-date in the news on foreign relations as well as learning new languages; in addition to English and Spanish, Levin loves sign language and is currently in her second semester of introductory Russian. By Anna Mukamal, Duke Throughout her time at Duke, senior Jenny Sherman of Bay Village, Ohio has had the opportunity to participate in the university’s athletics program from a different perspective. Majoring in cultural anthropology with a minor in theater studies, she is known on campus as the co-founder of MASTERY, a tutoring program for refugee children in Durham. However, Sherman is also a tutor for student-athletes in a role that allows her to promote academic integrity while helping these athletes build a set of tools they can use to manage their busy schedules and academic Photo courtesy of coursework. “I enjoy the one-on-one nature of the work,” says Sherman about Jenny Sherman. her job. “It's a privilege for me to have a job that's based on relationships first and foremost.”

By Sofia Stafford, Duke Zach Sicking, a senior from Huntersville, NC, has dedicated his studies over the past four years at UNC-CH to his double major in Political Science and Peace, War and Defense and his minor in history. In eighth grade, he began to explore his interest in music with guitar lessons. Since then, music and writing have undoubtedly evolved into his passions. In his free time, Sicking has not only become an incredible guitar player, but has taught himself to play an 8-string guitar, the bass, Photo courtesy of the banjo and has become proficient on the Appalachian dulcimer (a fretted inZach Sicking. strument of the zither family with origins in the Appalachian regions of the United states, typically with three or four strings). He enjoys writing poetry, short stories and stand-up comedy. If you’re lucky, you can even catch him performing stand-up in Chapel Hill!

By Rachel Fischell, Duke Brent Comstock came to UNC-CH already wearing many hats as an innovator, entrepreneur and technology expert. He began his career earlier than most when he started his first business at age 12. In high school, he learned to build websites, quickly developing a talent that evolved into a marketable skill when clients began hiring him to design their sites. His business quickly began offering marketing solutions in addition to tech solutions. Today, Comstock already has more than 70 clients in the United States and is leading his company BCom Solutions into an international market. Comstock has also become a business marketing consultant and public speaker Photo courtesy of working with groups that range from large scale economic development teams to local Brent Comstock. chambers of commerce. Comstock manages his company as he studies business at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and shows no signs of slowing down.

By Mark Dawson, UNC-CH

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