Ben McCollum is not a hypothetical coach anymore.

He's already made the jump to D1, and after building a dynasty at Northwest Missouri State,

he moved to Drake, one immediately, and is now at Iowa, proving that his model can potentially

scale at the high major level. The question for North Carolina isn't whether he can coach.

It's whether you can trust that trajectory to continue all the way to Chapel Hill.

I'm Joey Powell for Inside Carolina.

It's a UNC coaching candidate preview on Ben McCollum.

Let's get into it.

Music candidate preview on Ben McCollum. Let's get into it. What's up, y'all?

Joey Powell for Inside Carolina with me.

Sean Moran and Rob Harrington.

I know you guys are out there in Tar Hill fandom land as nervous as a hooker in church.

And we're going to try to satiate that a little bit, give you some more breakdowns of

North Carolina's potential targets as they have moved past tier one and are now in tier two.

Again, inside Carolina has our updated coaching search boards.

You can see who's on the hot board and who's next.

And right now we're going to dive into a guy that nobody had really heard of unless you were a real, real basketball junkie when he was at the D2 level.

We're going to talk a little bit about Ben McCollum.

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