Duke, UNC comically battle over Harrison Barnes

Former South Carolina coach Dave Odom apparently does a podcast with Buster Sports. Being former USC coach Dave Odom, he hears the sort of insider college basketball rumors that you and I aren't always privy to, even though we consume and produce college basketball media all day. And the latest, which Odom discusses here, is what he calls an "unsubstantiated" but consistently correlated rumor about Coach K and Coach Roy's battle over 2010's star recruit, Ames, Iowa guard Harrison Barnes. According to Odom, Coach K flew from Durham, N.C., to visit with Barnes, at which point he probably got, like, Carlos Boozer or Luol Deng or Elton Brand on the phone, and then worked really hard to convince Barnes to commit to Duke and end this process for good. "I don't just want to prepare you for basketball ... I want to prepare you for life," and all that. To which Barnes says: sounds good, but I just need to talk with North Carolina again. So he calls UNC. R...