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Hello everybody, welcome to the show we are continuing on with our review of the

NCAA bracket we're gonna get into the Midwest region which I'll be honest this is a couple of heavy hitters in here

and teams that I don't really think are going to be much of an impact but I'll get into my

reasons why so without much further ado let's talk about the third

ranked the number one seed in North Carolina.

The Tar Heels, I think from a profile standpoint, are the best team to match up against Duke. It's just in terms of

offensive and defensive efficiency the Tar heels are in the top as in both offense and defense.

From a tempo standpoint, they're in the top 50.

You know, it's just one of those teams that I think from a balanced standpoint they have so many things

going for them they're one of the few teams that do can't just be able to push around at all.

So, you know, it's the closest comparable that Duke has in terms of talent level and just being able to play coordinated basketball.

Obviously, Carolina doesn't have the NBA top level talent as they would with guys like Luke May, but they have so much

experience with Camp Johnson that they have enough of wherewithal to be able to sustain those runs that Duke tends to gone.

Because the issue with Duke is you're going to get blitched at different points of the game.

It's more along the lines of can you avoid the turnovers know not get too caught up in a moment that's the one thing

you will Carolina can do they can they can get easier buckets that most teams can't do and again because Carolina can push tempo as well

you know they don't necessarily have the issues that other teams do when they go up against

Duke and that you know when tempo gets pushed up they kind of fall apart.

That's the reason why, you know,

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