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Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Basketball Roster Preview: The Bigs

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Hubert Davis and the North Carolina Tar Heels needed a big man. Arizona transfer Henri Veesaar fit the bill and he long with James Brown, Zayden High and High Point transfer Ivan Matlekovic give Davis and staff size in the paint and options. Inside Carolina’s roundtable crew of Rob Harrington, Greg Barnes and Riley Davis join host Tommy Ashley for a comprehensive preview of the Tar Heel bigs and wrap this three-part series with final roster grades for the 2025-26 season. **Call to Action:**   **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode!   **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans!   **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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I'm

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Bhopa

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Bhop

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Bhop

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Bhop

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Bhaar Welcome in everybody to the third part of a three-part series,

0:34.9

Scouting the North Carolina Tar Hills, Hubert Davis's North Carolina and Tar Hills. I'm Tommy Ashley. As always, we're sponsored by Johnny T-shirt. If you've been keeping up with this series, we did the guards, I guess, a month ago or so. We did the wings and combos a couple weeks ago. Today, we will do the bigs. Like I said, you guys know me, you know

0:55.9

Rob Harrington there on the bottom of your screen. We got Riley Davis. I let him introduce

1:00.1

himself when it comes around. And of course, the legendary Greg Barnes. We're going to cover

1:05.8

four guys, Zaden High, James Brown, Ivan, Matlakovich, and Henry Vassar, and we're going to do it in an

1:14.6

organized fashion. Rob Harrington, you've got James Brown right off the top. Yeah, I'm happy to

1:21.5

talk about Brown. In the old days, we would take it as a given that he would develop over four

1:26.8

years.

1:30.1

Sort of on the Joel James trajectory,

1:32.6

we just sort of expect a guy like that to come along.

1:35.8

But of course, in this era with the transfer portal,

1:40.1

there's no guarantee that someone who didn't play any more than he did last year would choose to come back for a year.

1:42.6

And I think, you know, for that reason, I already like him.

1:48.4

It says something I think about his determination.

1:51.3

Because, again, even though he's a sophomore,

1:53.8

he doesn't necessarily project play a ton of minutes

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