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Johnny T-shirt.com. Got the Bracketology roundtable here tonight. Got Ross Martin, Sherell McMill

McMillan. And I'm going to start with Greg Barnes, Greg, overall impressions of the bracket as a

whole. And of course, we'll dig down deeper into Carolina's side of it soon enough.

Well, I think what stands out to me, and I think probably what stands out to a lot of people,

is that the top three seeds in this tournament are all ACC schools.

And I know a lot of people were not pulling for Duke to win the ACC tournament,

but I really think that set

things in motion to kind of cement North Carolina where they were. And I think the fact that

North Carolina won 15 of their last 17 games, those two losses were to Virginia, who was the number one seed, and Duke, who was

a number one seed, kind of confirmed that North Carolina is one of those top teams.

And so while you can look at the net ranking and say, well, North Carolina was only number

seven, you kind of dive down and look at who they've played,

their willingness to play teams.

And that's the big part of it.

You've got to be willing to play teams in the non-conference schedule.

Royal Williams has always done that.

NC State clearly has not.

And so they get left out.

And I think that emphasis on a non-conference schedule

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