UNC Basketball: Tar Heels, Blue Devils to wear special uniforms for Saturday’s game

The UNC Basketball program unveiled special jerseys to celebrate the 100 years of their rivalry with the Duke Blue Devils

The North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils have been butting heads for 100 years now and when they meet in the Dean E. Smith Center on Saturday night to renew their rivalry, they will do so in a special way.

Both the Tar Heels and Blue Devils will wear special commemorative jerseys to honor the rivalry with the idea centered around giant logos on the top portion of the uniforms. The two schools unveiled their new look on Thursday afternoon, going with their own shade of blue as the base and a giant logo front and center.

They sort of uh, look like practice jerseys:

As you can see, these jerseys will also be available to the public beginning on Friday but judging by the social media reaction already, I imagine these won’t be a fan favorite.

Both schools will also have matching shorts to go along with the top in their shade of blue and the shorts look much better. You can get a look at the shorts via this video that UNC put out, which is actually pretty awesome and goes through the classic alternates that UNC has worn over the years starring Garrison Brooks:

https://twitter.com/UNC_Basketball/status/1225509486686875654

The shorts also pay homage to the rivalry with “MCXX-MMXX” to represent 1920 to 2020 and will feature the throwback NC logo, the Tar Heel emblem and the Jordan Brand logo.

UNC wore similar “big logo” jerseys in the late 90s and early 2000’s and even brought them back for another run a few years back. I imagine these won’t be making a return anytime soon.

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