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A Tale of Two Tickets

Sibling squabble erupts on Twitter when Duke Alumni gives away Duke-UNC tickets

At Stake: Duke-UNC Tickets

From Jan. 31 to Feb. 9, Duke Alumni ran a Twitter contest to give away two tickets to the Feb. 18 Duke vs. UNC men's basketball game at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Eric Stach '14 of Waxhaw, N.C., won the pair of tickets from a random drawing of more than 3,000 entrants.

Stach says that ahead of the giveaway, he and a fellow Blue Devil made a deal with each other: They would enter the contest as a team and go to the game together should either one win.

Meanwhile, more than 400 miles away in Washington, D.C., Stach's older sister, Samantha, a Duke alumna from the Class of 2009, had learned about the Duke Alumni ticket giveaway and entered, too. 

She didn't know about her brother's pact with his friend.

Read what happens next between these two Blue Devil sibilings via Twitter: