Blue Devils top Tar Heels 3,688 to 3,444; set record

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Students from Atlantic Coast Conference rivals Duke and North Carolina completed their two-and-a-half day basketball game Monday, finishing with an expected world record for the longest continuous game.\nThe Duke student 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 losers' Chapel Hill campus.\nThe 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.\nThe students also competed to raise the most money for the Hoop Dreams Basketball Academy, a nonprofit group 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.