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 Ross Martin and Greg Barnes, and we're going to do things a little bit differently in this podcast. We're going to talk about a day in the life of an I.C. Staffer, beat writer

Greg Barnes, Ross Martin go through their routine, whether it's basketball or football or even

baseball sometimes. And that's what I'm going to start with, though. Greg, NC State was

ranked two in the nation, hosting Carolina in a pivotal series for both programs. It's always a big

deal when State and Carolina played. You were in Durham when they played at the Durham's Bulls part,

but this time it meant something.

And Carolina goes to Raleigh,

pulls off the Friday night game,

which is not that big a deal.

States lost the Friday night game plenty of times this season during their run.

But Carolina came back and beat their best pitcher on Saturday

and then completed the sweep on Sunday.

Where does that put this North Carolina team

that quite frankly, after 14 games of the season,

nobody thought they would live up to any preseason expectation.

Yeah, it's really remarkable what they've done really since the Florida State series.

They lost that series, and I think they've won five straight series.

They've won 17 in their last 20 games.

And as you mentioned, NC State was two in the nation, and a lot of people kind of had them

pegged as a top four national seed, state's zone position for national seed. But with North

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