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Duke beats UNC 3,688 to 3,444

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Students Complete 2 1/2-Day Hoops Game Mon Jan 16, 10:24 PM ET

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Students from Atlantic Coast Conference rivals Duke and North Carolina completed their 2 1/2-day basketball game Monday, finishing with an expected world record for the longest continuous game.

Duke won 3,688-3,444. The game began at 8 a.m. Saturday and ended at 6 p.m. Monday, marking 58 straight hours in Fetzer Gymnasium on the loser's Chapel Hill campus.

The 24 students from the two schools nearly doubled a pair of similar reported world records. The Guinness World Records' Web site listed the record as 30 hours, 12 minutes set in Nebraska in 2004. Game organizers said they were later informed by Guinness of a more recent record of 33 hours, 35 minutes, set in Germany last April. They passed both marks Sunday.

The students also competed to raise the most money for the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, a nonprofit that uses basketball to help improve the lives of children with life-threatening illnesses. Organizers said the marathon raised nearly $60,000, short of their $80,000 target.
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Both teams will only be allowed to use 12 players, who will be required to stay in the gym for the entire 58-hour period. They can play for up to four hours at a time, Richmond said, but whenever they come out of the game, it must be for an hour. They can sleep -- but only courtside.
The game will be played under international basketball rules, he said. It will have official, certified referees, who will work four-hour shifts, he said.
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http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-688652.html
 
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Who came up with the rules? Guinness? I mean...can you not break the record with 13 players on a team, or not making guys stay out for an hour? How about 100 people on your team, and beds along the court?

Plus...58 hours and NOBODY fouled out?!?!? that's bs
 
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JonathanXC said:
Who came up with the rules? Guinness? I mean...can you not break the record with 13 players on a team, or not making guys stay out for an hour? How about 100 people on your team, and beds along the court?

Plus...58 hours and NOBODY fouled out?!?!? that's bs
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Well... there are usually only 12 people on a team... and they didn't say they couldn't have beds along the court, only that they had to sleep courtside...
 
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