IC Daily: UNC's Flaws - Fixable or Fatal?

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🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Inside Carolina senior reporter Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss North Carolina's disastrous western road trip and how the poor results are startling after a respectable start to the season. Can Hubert Davis can help his team get back on track in time to perform up to early season expectations or are the flaws that have been exposed in recent games fatal to the season's success? **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 see daily from Monday, January 19th.
0:03.3	I'm Tommy Ashley.
0:04.1	That's Greg Barnes, sponsored by Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com.
0:08.0	Go to Inside Carolina, sign up for your premium subscription.
0:11.0	It is still half off.
0:12.4	It is still January.
0:14.7	Greg, California road trip, not a very good trip for North Carolina.
0:23.4	Talked to Dewey Burke after the Cal game, a lot of dejections, a lot of issues, a lot of trouble for this Carolina team. Even though
0:30.4	it's mid-January, there's some severe flaws that have turned into fatal flaws the last
0:36.6	couple ball games for this team.
0:39.1	For sure. The fact that this was a team we were talking about not much more than a month ago
0:45.3	as having the potential to be one of the better North Carolina defensive teams in recent memory
0:51.6	is just staggering what we've seen transpired in recent weeks.
0:58.5	And as we've discussed previously, Tommy, it's not like Carolina has been playing
1:03.4	offensive juggernauts.
1:05.8	SMU is really good offensively.
1:08.2	But we saw what Duke was able to do with Stanford the other night.
1:11.9	And Stanford just did not look like a NCAA tournament team.
1:16.9	They probably are not one as Duke beat them at home by 30.
1:23.2	And Duke's a good defensive team.
1:24.9	And it's just if you watch a little bit of that game compared to the end of the Carolina-Stanford game, I mean, it's glaring.
1:34.5	And for Carolina to kind of drop defensively the way that they have is alarming.
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