Duke Basketball: Top 10 game-winning shots of the Coach K era

8. Chris Duhon vs. UNC

Date: Feb. 5, 2004

Place: Dean Dome

Final Score: Duke 83, UNC 81 (OT)

There’s nothing finer than a win at Carolina. Well, maybe a national championship — still, though, the look of devastated Tar Heel faces is priceless.

And I’ll always be grateful to Duhon for choosing this game to display another game-winner. After all, this time around, the game-winner coincided with Roy Williams’ first game against Duke as head coach of the Tar Heels.

Welcome to the rivalry, Ol’ Roy.

This time, Duhon was a senior leader. This time, the shot came at the end of overtime. Like his shot at Wake Forest three years prior, though, this one followed a 3-pointer that provided oh-so-brief hope to the opponent.

UNC’s Rashad McCants knocked one down from beyond the arc with 13.5 seconds remaining to tie the score at 81. Before ESPN’s Dick Vitale could catch his breath, Duhon had already taken the inbound from freshman Luol Deng and was off to the races, using only seven seconds to take seven dribbles and get to the basket, unimpeded, for a reverse layup with 6.5 seconds on the clock.

The Tar Heels ended up finding Melvin Scott in the corner for a 3-point attempt that would’ve won the game. But it never had a chance.

And Duhon’s heroics from that night never have a chance to escape my memory bank.