Game of the Week: UVa @ UNC (1/9/1982)

Big Braddock Energy

Forget about Duke or NC State: Carolina’s defining rivalry of the early 1980s was with Terry Holland’s Virginia Cavaliers, led by the towering presence of 7’4” Ralph Sampson. The Heels were just over nine months removed from knocking off UVa in the 1981 Final Four behind a transcendent 39-point performance from Al Wood. And while Wood had moved on to th…