Thousands of people watching the 10 men playing, their faces painted, their mouths ajar, shrieking fight songs and shouting obscenities. A riot breaks out as happy fans from the victorious side run amok during an orgy of ecstasy that turns violent.
Property is damaged and fingers are pointed the morning after.
After dusk in the Triangle. Carolina beat Duke that night and hundreds of joyous folks descended on Franklin Street in downtown Chapel Hill to celebrate the basketball victory. The dreaded Blue Devils were ranked higher than Matt Doherty's Tar Heels, but the Heels would soon ascend to the top of the collegiate basketball rankings, largely because of this stunning upset. Drunken revelry was the order of the night as students and townspeople participated in a celebratory ritual, which often included setting bonfires, that somewhat spontaneously occured after athletic triumphs in years past. But this time something would mar the tradition, casting a black eye on the University of North Carolina and the Town of Chapel Hill, two entities that have had to coexist for more than two centuries and who are not getting along all that well at the moment.