Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,

your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

I'm your host Tommy Ashley. I'm joined by Dewey Burke.

Earlier today, Dewey Burke was questionable and a game time decision.

He has made it through, fought through the sickness and has joined me.

And Dewey, it's been a while, man. Glad to have you on.

Yeah, I wish I felt better and I wish Carolina was playing a little better.

But here we are and we'll break it down.

So the last time we talked was after the Clemson win in Chapel Hill, you were about on your way to see Georgia Tech and Carolina in the Smith Center.

Carolina won that game, but after that it's been struggle after struggle in pretty similar ball games, really.

If you look at them holistically, at Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, and Smith Center in overtime, and at Clemson.

Let's kind of start with the Clemson game a little bit.

I'll tell you, as Shirel and I were planning on doing the postgame podcast, at halftime,

it was not going to be a good one.

But then the way Carolina fought back without Pinson, does that give you some sort of

glimmer that this team can pull out of this slump that they're going through?

Definitely. It definitely does.

And look, it's really hard to win on the road in this conference.

It's really hard to win at home or on the road in this conference when somebody makes 15 threes against you and shoots 50%.

And despite that, we tied the

game at 74 and we could talk about those last couple possessions when we get into it. But without

question, I mean, it would have been way more concerning if we never even gave ourselves a chance

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