High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tobacco Road refers to the tobacco-producing area of North Carolina and is often used when referring to sports (particularly basketball) played among rival North Carolina universities. The phrase actually originated as the title of a novel set in Georgia, but it naturally migrated to North Carolina because of the state's primacy in tobacco production.Three of the schools (Duke, UNC, and NC State) are part of Research Triangle and are separated by no more... Mehr