Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports,

your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

I'm your host, Tommy Ashley, joined by Dewey Burke.

Dewey, it's been a few days since we talked.

You were on the road during the ACC tournament and doing some actual work while we were

watching games.

So I give you a pass on that, but it's good to have you tonight.

Let's just get right into it.

Your thoughts on how the heels look in the ACC tournament getting to this week in preparation for the NCAA tournament?

Overall, I was really proud of our guys.

I mean, I thought we battled through a lot of different situations to get to that championship

game.

Obviously, we would have loved to have finished the Duke game a little bit better than we did,

but we played great that night.

I was so proud of the way we fought. We were aggressive defensively. Took the fight to them, as we like to say, shot the ball well. I was just proud of the way we battled, especially against Bagley. You know, lottery pick talent can be so difficult to play against. And I remember texting my friends and family at halftime saying,

we're about to get a huge dose of Bagley in the second half. And for the most part, we kept him

more or less marginalized. So it was a credit to our guys, the way we played in that game. But I think

the way we had to fight to finish that one and get the win, ultimately got to our

legs in the second half of the Virginia game.

Those last eight, ten minutes, I just thought we were out of gas.

You could see it on some of the way.

The shots that we missed defensively, not getting those loose balls, being a step

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