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Johnny T-shirt.com. Got the Brackatology 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 a 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.

Roy 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

and then to play the way that UNC did during the regular season and even in Charlotte this past week kind of put them in that position as a number one seed.

You look at their bracket.

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