Hansbrough leads Heels to upset of No. 1 Duke

DURHAM, N.C. -- North Carolina's precocious freshmen earned another victory on the road, in perhaps the toughest setting.

They ruined Senior Night at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Tyler Hansbrough scored 27 points, fellow rookie Danny Green came up with the key defensive stop and the 13th-ranked Tar Heels held off No. 1 Duke 83-76 Saturday night in the final home game for J.J. Redick and Shelden Williams.

Bobby Frasor, yet another first-year player, converted two clutch free throws with 23 seconds remaining, and Hansbrough later made two more. That made it a five-point game, and the Blue Devils (27-3, 14-2 Atlantic Coast Conference) were done when DeMarcus Nelson missed everything on a 3-pointer at the other end.

"When I knocked down those free throws, it hit me that we'd just come in here and beat Duke," Hansbrough said. "It doesn't get any better than this."

The Blue Devils completed the regular season with their first loss to North Carolina in Cameron since 2001 and will almost certainly drop from the top spot in The Associated Press poll on Monday after losing two in a row. Florida State upset Duke earlier in the week.

Marcus Ginyard, the fourth freshmen in the rotation for the Tar Heels (21-6, 12-4), added 12 points and Frasor finished with 10. Green stripped Duke's Sean Dockery on a drive in the final minute when the margin was only three points.

Redick scored 18 points despite missing 15 of his final 16 shots, and Williams had 18 points, 15 rebounds and six blocks.

No. 10 Illinois 75, No. 25 Michigan St. 68

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Dee Brown opened and closed the Big Ten regular season with sensational performances against Michigan State.

Brown scored 16 of his 20 points after halftime and made two 3-pointers during a 12-0 run midway through the second half to lift No. 10 Illinois to a victory over the 25th-ranked Spartans.

The Illini (25-5, 11-5 Big Ten) finished the regular season with five wins in six games and will share the conference title with Iowa and Ohio State if last-place Purdue upsets the Buckeyes on the road today.

-- From wire reports