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Yes, it does and its not even close. Cue7, you have to walk around Duke in the Spring during Basketball season to see how pumped up the undergraduates are and how extensive the tradition surrounding the sport is. Notre Dame Football can compare but Stanford, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, etc. do not.</p>
<p>Unlike other schools, there’s a specific campus culture that surrounds Duke Basketball games including students tenting for the North Carolina game and sometimes the MD game. </p>
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Cue7, I think its important for us to differentiate between athletic school spirit and alumni loyalty. Michigan and Texas have athletic school spirit while Dartmouth and Princeton have tight alumni loyalty. Duke and Notre Dame have both.</p>
<p>I guess your argument just makes me shrug. This is very hard to quantify, and if you really want school spirit, it seems as if there are other viable top schools that offer that atmosphere (Stanford, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, some of the ivies like Dartmouth and Princeton have great support for their athletic teams). </p>
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Cue7, you need to come and watch a Duke Basketball game and perhaps come on campus for the UNC game to understand why the rivalry is considered perhaps the greatest college sports rivalry ever and why ACC Basketball is ferociously followed as Big 10 Football.</p>
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In the modern era, Duke has been the best college basketball team while UNC has been #3 according to ESPN. There is only 9 miles that separate these two college basketball powerhouses and all North Carolinians either grew up cheering for UNC or Duke.</p>
<p>Can the Cal/Stanford rivalry even compare? Maybe in academics…</p>
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<p>Duke/UNC is #1.</p>
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<p>Duke/UNC is the first mentioned in the slideshow.</p>
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<p>NBC says it might be “the greatest rivalry of all time”.</p>
<p>In California, UCLA/USC is considered much bigger than Cal/Stanford.</p>