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Hi, my name is Carly Kew, and if you're anything like me, you may have noticed that there

are a lot of big questions out there that need answers. On who and wow, Mystery

Edition, I'm solving all of life's mysteries. Well, at least some of them. Listen early and

add free on Amazon Music or The Wundry app. Brendan Marks, you wrote about a pretty significant day in Armando Baycotte's

basketball career all the way back on April 2nd, 2022.

Can you take us back to that day to Beakot's hotel room in New Orleans and tell us what happened?

North Carolina and Duke have just finished playing in the final and by his arch rival, all of Armando Beacott's UNC teammates are a block away, enjoying all of the

festivities Bourbon Street has to offer, and Armando, who badly rolled his ankle in the final minutes of the

game against Duke, is not celebrating with him.

Instead he is stuck in his hotel room 10 or 15 floors above Bourbon Street.

His ankle is swollen to the size of a grapefruit and he's deciding whether or not he should

take off his shoe if he has any chances of playing in the national championship game.

This is a guy who had lost more games in North Carolina history than anybody in the last two decades and as he's sitting

there looking at his ankle it's a question of how bad do I really want this.

And he doesn't know if he takes his shoe off if he's ever going to get it back on again.

So he decides, I'm going to do it.

I'm going to sleep in my shoe.

He sleeps in the shoe, goes on to play in the national championship game against Kansas

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