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, joined by Greg Barnes, Ross Martin.

First time we've had this podcast, guys, since it's football season,

but we're nine games in to North Carolina basketball, eight and one,

only blemished that loss to Michigan State after, what, 11-game road trip, basically,

or 11-day road trip.

Greg, I'll go to you first.

Biggest surprise thus far for North Carolina not named Lusk, or 11-day road trip. Greg, I'll go to you first.

Biggest surprise thus far for North Carolina not named Luke May.

I think Luke May is a big one, Tommy.

We have to at least acknowledge Luke May, right?

We can certainly discuss him because I think we may have made a wager about May earlier in the preseason podcast.

I believe you may have said 10 rebounds a game.

And I think Ross thought that was great. Yeah, the old double double bet.

Yeah, I'm still sticking with, I don't think it'll average double double.

But yeah, I mean, it's definitely surprising.

And I think Greg was definitely kind of hit the nail on the head with that one.

Well, if you want to give me credit for the rebounding aspect, sure, I'll take it.

But I don't think anybody thought that he would be the offensive firebrand that he's been.

I mean, we knew he could shoot spot up jumpers.

We knew that he could clean up the glass get garbage scores

but the way that he's taking the ball of the dribble the way that he has expanded his post

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