IC Daily: UVa Trip Provides Opportunity for UNC

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🗓️ 23 January 2026

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Inside Carolina's senior reporter Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley to discuss North Carolina's trip north to play Virginia in Charlottesville on Saturday. The Tar Heels got back in the win column with a blowout of Notre Dame in the Smith Center, but the Wahoos present a complete different, and more difficult, challenge for Hubert Davis and his team. **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	It is Friday, January 23rd is North Carolina braces for an ice storm.
0:05.2	North Carolina basketball travels to UVA.
0:08.7	Greg, this is a, well, first of all, Johnny T-shirt and Johnny T-shirt.com can't do it without it.
0:14.2	Can't ever forget them.
0:15.5	Insidecarolina.com, the QR code.
0:17.5	Get those out of the way, join up, like, review, rate, all that good stuff
0:21.9	on this YouTube stuff. Most importantly, let's talk UVA. Virginia is not the Virginia of old,
0:28.0	Greg. They have sort of changed their stripes, and it is something that we've got to get used
0:33.5	to. Tony Bennett, of course, retired, and now Virginia is trying to name the court for him
0:39.3	and well-deserved, but Ryan Odom has come in, and Virginia's pretty daggone good. And I think
0:45.1	folks thought they might be left for dead after Bennett left, Greg, but Carolina's trip up there,
0:51.6	pretty critical for Hubert Davis in this North Carolina team, I think.
0:56.1	Yeah, for sure. And we've talked a lot about North Carolina struggles on the road of late,
1:03.5	first at SMU, then at Stanford, then at Cal. And none of those teams are really at the level of Virginia.
1:11.9	Carolina's played one top 15 program in the net thus far.
1:16.4	That was Michigan State.
1:17.6	We know that game went.
1:19.3	Virginia is going to be number two.
1:21.1	Virginia currently is a 13 in the net.
1:24.3	They're also 13 in Ken Palm.
1:26.1	And the reason they're ranked that high is because when you look at the advanced metrics, they're 17th nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency. And they're 17th nationally in defensive, of adjusted efficiency. So they are well balanced. They're very good. And as you mentioned, they've got a lot of players that are contributing.
1:50.4	A lot of guys at different positions.
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