May 24, 2010
Chapel Hill - Athletic competition between the University of North Carolina and Duke is finished for the year and the Tar Heels have won the Carlyle Cup, 14-12, for the third straight season and sixth time in nine years.
The Carlyle Cup is a head-to-head competition between the Tar Heels and Blue Devils originally sponsored by Carlyle and Co. jewelers. Two points are awarded in football, men's basketball and women's basketball and one point is awarded in 20 other sports for 26 total points.
This year's competition was the closest in four years since the schools tied, 13-13, in 2006-07.
Carolina won two points in football and split one point apiece with the Blue Devils in women's basketball. UNC also won one point in men's soccer, women's soccer, field hockey, wrestling, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, women's tennis, men's track and field, women's track and field and women's lacrosse. Volleyball and men's lacrosse split a pair of head-to-head matchups that provided each school one-half point in each sport, respectively.
The final matchups of the season between the schools came on May 22 in NCAA Tournament play. The Carolina women's tennis team beat the Blue Devils for the third time this year, all by identical 4-3 margins, in the NCAA quarterfinals in Athens, Ga.
