Duke basketball doesn't have a traditional point guard on its roster, but the Blue Devils are in position to chase a 73-year-old record.

Duke basketball star Cooper Flagg helped the team power past North Carolina, but the freshman is still critical of his performance.

Dave O’Brien was a high schooler in Keene, N.H., during the beginnings of the Celtics’ 1980s heyday, so he is well aware it’s borderline blasphemous to compare any young basketball player to Larry Bird — and perhaps the word borderline isn’t even necessary.

Flagg made headlines going into and then coming out of a game against North Carolina, the Blue Devils’ top rival, by scoring 21 points in an 87-70 victory. This followed a performance against North Carolina State in which his 28 points led Duke to a 74-64 victory.

"Ummm, I don't really remember, but he seemed a little jacked up, a little nervous," Knueppel said after No. 2 Duke had smashed rival North Carolina, 87-70. "In warmups, I'm not t

Just being one of those Duke teams where we walk into the gym and everyone sort of has that fear and knows that we’re not playing around, and we’re gonna get after you.” Maybe UNC wasn’t scared of the second-ranked Blue Devils on Saturday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

It was never more clear than on Saturday night that the Duke Blue Devils and North Carolina Tar Heels are a pair of programs heading into drastically different directions. An 87-70 win for the 2nd-ranked Blue Devils over their in-state rival wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicated,

Following Duke basketball's blowout win vs rival UNC, Cooper Flagg and the Blue Devils highlighted a key stat from the dominant performance.