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Welcome to the Inside Carolina podcast. John Siegley here with Sean Moran from Sean Mo Hoops.

Sean, thanks for joining me today, man.

How are you doing, John?

Doing pretty well.

We've got a big time game to talk about that's coming up on Saturday.

I think Carolina fans may know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, definitely.

Last game of the season at Duke in the first time to sweep Duke since 2009. So definitely a big game and

and even more so with the recent home loss to Miami. Yeah, that Miami lost really put them

behind the eight ball, I think, in terms of seating, not only for the ACC tournament and for

the NCAA tournament. So let's just start there. I mean, as you mentioned, this is Carolina's first opportunity to go for a sweep against Duke in

eight years, nine years, actually, I think, if my math is right.

And the Duke game is always important, but even Roy said that it's not usually one of the

must win games, but that may be different for this team.

Yeah, you know, I think in terms of seeding for the ACC, that's less important.

You know, if they get a four or five seed, there's a lot of 11 and 7 and potentially, you know, teams in that area.

So they could slip. But if they get the four or five seats, it's not the end of the world, teams in that area. So they could slip.

But if they get the four or five seats, it's not the end of the world,

potentially match out with Virginia,

which I think they would actually match up with pretty well in the tournament,

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