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IC Daily: Playing Through Adversity in New Era of College Basketball

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

4.8778 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Inside Carolina senior reporter Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss Kansas freshman Darryn Peterson and UNC's Caleb Wilson in the one and done era and how both players have handled injury troubles during their first, and only, season in college basketball. Jayhawk head coach Bill Self expressed some frustration with Peterson this week after the star freshman took himself out of a big game, another in a long line of missed opportunities for the Jayhawks to play with their complete roster in 2026. Barnes and Ashley discuss Wilson's approach to rehabbing his fractured left hand and the seemingly different approaches to getting back on the court both players have when dealing with adversity. Arkansas freshman Darius Acuff and Michael Jordan come up in the discuss as current and past examples of playing the game and taking advantage of every opportunity to showcase talent and ability. **Call to Action:**   **Subscribe:** Follow 'Inside Carolina' wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode!   **Review:** Leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify to help us reach more Tar Heel fans!   **Visit:** Explore http://www.InsideCarolina.com for breaking news, recruiting updates, and expert commentary on all things UNC sports. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNC sports coverage and community. Visit http://www.InsideCarolina.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome in I.C. Daily. I'm Tommy, Ashley. That's Greg Barnes. It is Thursday, January the 19th.

0:05.3

February the 19th. Time is flying. Here on I see daily, Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com.

0:12.8

And as always go to Inside Carolina sign up for your premium subscription.

0:17.3

Greg, on one of the few days where Carolina is not playing basketball and we're not going to talk directly about Carolina or more indirectly.

0:26.2

You watch college basketball in the new era and guys getting paid and all of that,

0:32.4

agents involved.

0:33.6

And then we see Darren Peterson situation.

0:37.0

He only played, I guess, 19 minutes yesterday.

0:41.5

Coach Self did not appear pleased with the decision for him to hold himself out.

0:47.9

I don't want to judge Darren Peterson at all because that's not the point of this show.

0:53.0

But to your point, the way we were talking offline, this is an interesting new dynamic

0:58.2

with college sports, with agents involved and injuries and what do you do with them?

1:05.9

It's just a wild situation for Kansas.

1:08.5

I feel for Kansas a little bit, but they've done all right without

1:12.1

him too. What do you think about all of this? It's interesting times. It is. And it's hard

1:21.3

not to look at the Peterson situation and think that it's not solely about the money side of things.

1:29.4

And I think one thing that's separated some of the greats from everybody else is a love and a passion for the game.

1:41.1

And we point to Michael Jordan for good reason.'s the best that there ever was and he's a

1:47.5

Carolina guy but in no way would you see him elect not to play just because he's a little bit

1:57.2

banged up this is not who he was and that's why he was so good.

2:04.2

And I understand that we're in a time period where,

2:07.4

you know, load management is such a big deal in the NBA these days,

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