About The Punches In The Dean Dome: Yeah, It Happened
Somewhere in that crowd, Theo Pinson is busy assaulting Duke players
CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA - FEBRUARY 07: North Carolina Tar Heels fans storm the floor after a win against the Duke Blue Devils at Dean E. Smith Center on February 07, 2026 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. (Photo by Grant Halverson/Getty Images) | Getty Images N ormally, if we miss something and it’s not a timely story, we just let it go, but occasionally we make an exception, and this is one of those times.
Back on February 7th when UNC upset Duke on Seth Trimble’s last-second three, Jon Scheyer said that his players were assaulted after the game. For that, he was called a liar. If we recall directly, even the Orange County D.
A. Jeff Nieman, said there was “zero evidence” that a Duke staffer was “punched in the face. ” Well, we can’t prove that a staffer, specifically, was punched in the face, but were punches thrown afterwards?
That’s absolutely true. How do we know? Because the guilty party confessed the day after he did it.