Welcome in the Tuesday, January 6th. I'm Tommy Ashley. I see Daily, responsible by Johnny T-shirt,

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That's Greg Barnes. Greg, Carolina lost to SMU this past weekend. Don't know if it changes

the narrative much for me on the season. Carolina's got some limitations roster-wise. They have

a great player on the roster as well.

But the numbers seem to lend to the fact that this Carolina team

may be not as good as the 13 and 2 record.

They certainly have some upside.

Your take on these numbers looking at them after the SMU game.

Yeah, so there's a lot that we can get into.

But one thing I want to start with is we talk about the value of strength of schedule.

And you can go a couple different ways.

Roy Williams is a big fan of playing tougher opponents to really get his teams ready for postseason play.

North Carolina last year, of course, played one of the toughest non-conference schedules in the country,

and lost some really good teams. They had six games against teams that were, you know, top five in advanced metrics.

Tough to win those games.

But I think what we saw last year is with North Carolina losing to Kansas and Auburn and Michigan State and Bama and Florida, that people really took those losses hard

and were really critical about the level of play of the team.

Conversely, this year, North Carolina has played a week, not conference schedule.

I think it's, you know, if you look at Ken Palm, Ken Palm had it around 170 nationally.

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