​When we heard that JoJo Boumtje Boumtje said the following on the Brotherhood Podcast, we knew it wouldn’t go unnoticed. If you missed it, here’s what he said about choosing Duke over UNC:“Really just my gut feeling. Like, I like a lot of the schools that I had offers from, but at the end of the day, I think the thing that sold it was, if I go to one of these schools, I feel like I’m missing out on Duke. For Duke, I didn’t feel that way for the other schools.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“Like, I didn’t feel like I was missing out on going to, I don’t know, UNC, for example. Like, it would have been great, but I feel like I would have been missing out on Duke if I had gone to UNC. So, just stuff like that, the fit, like the plan that Coach Jon [Scheyer] has for me, like all of that, it’s really what brought me here.”Needless to say, this hasn’t gone over well with the fans of the Lesser Blue.Honestly, though, it’s the funniest thing we can remember a freshman saying since Jason Williams went on Duke’s WXDU and talked about how much he hated UNC and looked forward to killing them. He was, um…inappropriately enthusiastic.He was much more circumspect afterward, which made it seem likely that the staff had called him in and said, look, kid, no red meat.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHowever, what Boumtje Boumtje said was very different. Williams at one point wanted to attend UNC, and Bill Guthridge wasn’t interested, because he thought UNC didn’t need another guard.In Boumtje Boumtje’s case, he just innocently revealed that he didn’t take UNC all that seriously.It’s not a wise thing to say about a heated rivalry, and they’ll probably sit him down too, but in fairness to the kid, he’s not wrong: UNC in 2026 is a long way from where it was back in the day. Duke has obviously been out-recruiting UNC for a long time, but so has Virginia, Texas, Arkansas, Gonzaga, and plenty of other schools, and UNC hasn’t produced an NBA All-Star since Vince Carter back in 2007.5-star Duke commit throws UNC under the bus out of nowhereDuke freshman takes shot at UNC on recent podcastDuke beating out UNC for Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje proving to be even worse for the HeelsGo to the DBR Boards to find Blue Healer Auctions || Drop us a line