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IC Daily: UNC Eyes the Orange, Aims to Avoid Letdown

Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina

Football, Sports, Baseball, Basketball

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🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

North Carolina's midweek games ahead of the rivalry with Duke have been an adventure under head coach Hubert Davis. Syracuse looks to play the role of spoiler this year as the Orange visit the Smith Center on Monday night. Inside Carolina senior reporter Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley preview the ACC matchup with an eye toward the struggles of 'Cuse and the task UNC faces in playing well and winning big against a team that the Heels should handle. Barnes and Ashley also discuss the metrics and how the NCAA Tournament committee responsible for post-season seeding views late season performances now as opposed to how followers and fans of the teams do. **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 to Inside Carolina Daily. I am Tommy Ashley. It is Monday, February the 2nd. That's Greg Barnes. Always sponsored by Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com. Visit them. You get 10% off your order. If you do this, you go to insidecarolina.com. You sign up for a premium membership. You get all the Inside Carolina premium stuff, which includes the legendary Greg Barnes work, Rob Harrington, Sherell, all the recruiting, even Don Callahan.

0:26.3

Plus you get 10% off at Johnny T-shirt.

0:28.5

Greg, Carolina, Syracuse, the back end.

0:32.6

It's not an easier end, but it's easy when you do that Saturday Monday and your home on the

0:38.5

Monday Carolina goes to Georgia Tech wins that game handily they play Syracuse the orange and

0:45.1

Smith Center 7 o'clock on ESPN Greg we were talking about off to air and I don't want to

0:51.3

be mean or anything but this Syracuse team who off the air and I don't want to be mean or anything,

0:55.3

but this Syracuse team,

0:57.9

who aside from the Tennessee win,

1:00.1

they have looked rough this season.

1:02.5

Tell me why I'm right or why I'm wrong.

1:08.3

You know, I was a little optimistic about them early in the year because as you mentioned,

1:09.4

they got the Tennessee upset.

1:13.3

They played Houston before that game to overtime.

1:18.9

That's when Houston was still trying to figure out

1:20.6

what they were going to be with Fleming's.

1:23.0

They didn't look terrible against Kansas.

1:24.7

Kansas kind of pulled away from them late.

1:28.8

Iowa State, of course,

1:35.2

beat them by 30 or whatever it was. I thought there was a chance for this team to come along because they had decent guards in Georgian Starling, but it just hasn't come to be. And, be and i mean yes they're four and five in

1:46.9

a cc play but they've beat georgia tech Pittsburgh Florida State and Notre Dame and those are

1:54.7

four of the teams at the bottom of the ACC standings uh so kind of a middle of the road team in the ACC, this is not a team that should really

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