Duke freshman phenom Cooper Flagg turned in another monster performance Monday night as the No. 2 Blue Devils edged NC State 74-64 after facing their first halftime deficit in a home game this season.

As Duke men’s basketball prepares for its biggest game of the season against archrival North Carolina, The Chronicle previews the highly-anticipated matchup with an overview, key stat, X-Factor and 3 keys for Duke.

Duke basketball notched its 14th straight win by defeating NC State, 74-64, in Durham on Monday night. Roughly 24 hours later out in California, future Blue Devil forward Nik Khamenia and his Harvard-Westlake School Wolverines extended their winning streak to 14 games.

The freshman All-America team includes two SEC players, two Big Ten players and Player of the Year candidate Cooper Flagg from Duke.

Rarely challenged in the ACC thus far and looking like far and away the league’s best team, Duke plays Wake Forest having lost at Winston-Salem each of the past two seasons.

The Duke Blue Devils (18-2, 10-0 ACC) will attempt to build on a 14-game win streak when they host the North Carolina Tar Heels (13-9, 6-4 ACC) on Saturday, February 1, 2025 at Cameron Indoor

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No. 2 Duke University will host North Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 1 in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Tip-off: 6:30 p.m. Where to watch: ESPN The last time these teams met was in March last year in Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Tar Heels secured the win 84-79, and it was the program's first outright ACC regular-season title in seven years.

A loss at Tennessee would not have hurt Kentucky’s NCAA Tournament resume. The Vols are No. 4 in the NET Rankings and were a 10.5-point favorite at tipoff; the Cats, who were without two starters for 95% of the game,

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North Carolina coach Hubert Davis chose to downplay the significance of his team's Saturday showdown at No. 2 Duke following the Tar Heels' dispiriting 73-65 loss at Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. The defeat was UNC's third in its last four games and raises the stakes of the upcoming rivalry game for a team that is scrambling to assemble an NCAA Tournament resume.