Getting ready for the weekend.

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Greg, it's almost the weekend, almost Carolina's last big non-conference game, Carolina, Ohio State in Atlanta on Saturday

at 3 o'clock-ish. It's a big ball game for North Carolina to go into, not into the Christmas

holiday yet because they still got East Carolina, but to go into theC schedule rolling, for lack of a better way of

putting it.

And Carolina's been playing well enough.

They need to wrap it up against Ohio State.

They do.

I think Ohio State's a really good matchup for North Carolina, just in terms of, you know,

they're probably going to be a tournament team.

I don't see them contending in the Big Ten.

But it's, you know, a top 50 opponent.

They've got a really good player and Bruce Thornton, of course.

And it's a game that North Carolina should win if Carolina is hoping to be a contender in the ACC and really push for,

you know, the second or third weekend of the NCAA tournament.

But it's also one of those games where if Carolina doesn't play their, they're a game,

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