Duke wins basketball game by 244 points

[The Third Dukes]

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.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

That got boring near the end.....Right?

[Ace]

It was basketball. No doubt people were paid to watch by the hour

[NobBe Nobbs]

That's actually surprisingly awesome. Fucking obsessive on the part of the players and/or fans, but awesome nonetheless.

[GCCWolverine]

Who was the leading scorer? :-P

[Hellfire]

Thats pretty badass. I couldn't imagine playing basketball for that long, its almost obsessive. Oh well, they're in the record books.