5 Days and Counting and it’s looking more like a matchup for the record books. This has not been a good week for Duke. After a miserable performance in the loss at Clemson, many people are asking, “Who was that team?”. Next on their schedule is a home game on Saturday, Feb. 7th against Miami. Carolina meanwhile, breezed through their contests with NC State & Maryland. Up next for the Heels is a Saturday afternoon game against the Virginia Cavaliers.
At this point, both UNC & Duke have identical ACC records of 6-2 and are tied for first place. Their national rankings are identical as well. #3 in one poll and #4 in another. Could it be any better? If both teams come through the weekend with wins, the matchup on Wednesday will pit 2 teams with matching records against one another for the lead in the ACC. You gotta love college basketball in general, ACC basketball in particular and the battle of Tobacco Road specifically.
Who do you think will have the lead in the ACC when the final buzzer sounds on Wednesday night? You know who I think will be #1, how about you?
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The 2008 Year End data are out for Durham
Source: Triangle MLS and The Triangle Area Residential Realty Report (TARR Report).
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The 2008 Year End data are out for Chapel Hill and Orange County
Source: Triangle MLS and The Triangle Area Residential Realty Report (TARR Report).
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Once again, after only a week, the ACC race is even more up for grabs than it looked like last week. Carolina went to Tallahassee to face Florida State on Wednesday and it was a nail biter...but in True Carolina Blue fashion, the #5 Heels pulled it out at the buzzer 80-77. (Thank you Ty Lawson) This gives UNC a 4-2 ACC record and 18-2 overall heading into the weekend.
Duke however, was on the opposite end of the buzzer beaters, falling to #6 Wake Forest on a last second layup, 80-78. This gives the #1 Blue Devils a 5-1 ACC record and 18-2 overall.
Can the matchup in 12 days get any closer? This puts the Heels just 1 game back of Duke in the ACC standings and they have identical 18-2 overall records. This could be one for the history books folks! Each team has 3 games before the BIG CONTEST. Of those 3 games, each plays home twice and one away. Up next for the Heels is an away game against a hungry NC State Wolfpack team and Duke's next opponent is a ravenous Virginia Cavalier team.
What do you think the records will be for each team come the Duke/UNC matchup? Will one team be stumbling and the other on a roll? Or will both come into the contest riding high. It really doesn't matter. Both teams will be pumped and ready.
12 Days from now, the intensity of the 2009 rivalry will be at full throttle - "which is the best shade of blue?" And the best part...it all starts over again immediately, the rematch happens on March 8!
In some school districts there is essentially "sacred ground" when it comes to redistricting. I am referring to Walk Zones. In Chapel Hill - Carrboro, a walk zone is considered any property within 1.5 miles of a school. This 1.5 miles must incude a sidewalk. For example, I live in Ironwoods which is less than 1.5 miles to Seawell Elementary but because there is no side walk all the way to the school, Ironwoods which way back when was districted to Seawell was redistricted to Carrboro Elementary. In contrast, neighborhoods like Cates Farm and Sunset Creek have side walks all the way to McDougle Elemenatary and Middle Schools.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System actually has the School Assignment and Reassignment Policy Code: 4150 which states, "Walk Zones - Student residing within Board of Eduction approved walk zones should not be redistricted to schools not served by that walk zone."
Based on the above policy, when there has been redistricting in Chapel Hill - Carrboro, neighborhoods in a true walk zone have not been redistricted to other schools. Other examples of walk zones are Colony Woods and Ephesus Elementary; Meadowmont and Rashkis; Southern Village and Scroggs; Chesley, Silver Creek, and Chandlers Green and East Chapel Hill High; and Homestead Village and Chapel Hill High.
In Durham, the Department of Public instruction, only has a walk zone policy with regard to the three elementary magnet schools (Club, RN Harris and Burton Geo World). Specifically, if a student lives within .5 mile of one of these schools, then they can attend without going through the "magnet application lottery process." There is no such policy for magnet middle or high schools and no policy in regard to schools on regular or year-round schedules.
Wake County does not have a walk zone policy.
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