Welcome to another podcast by Inside Carolina.com, the independent voice of UNC Sports, your home for Tar Heel football, basketball, and recruiting.

Welcome to the Inside Carolina podcast. My name is John Siegley, and I am joined by Inside Carolina, Sherell McMillan,

and then also Sean Moran is joining us again. One to say, guys, thanks for joining me.

Hopefully the weekend has gone as well as it could have. You know, fortunately for Carolina

wasn't the best of times, but how are y'all doing it today?

Doing well, John. How are you? Thanks for having me on, obviously trying to recover from the result from Saturday.

It's hitting everyone pretty hard, but, you know, the weather in North Carolina is also rainy and gloom today.

So I think it matches everyone's mood.

What about you, Ra, how are you feeling today, man?

Doing pretty good.

Appreciate you asking.

No worries. All right. Well, let's just get right into it then. As far as the NC State game goes,

you know, is obviously not the result Carolina wanted.

But what was your impressions of the game? Sean, I'll start with you for that question.

Sure. Well, you know, obviously any time you lose to NC State, especially at home,

and as a 12-point favorite, it definitely stings. Obviously, the three-point shooting from NC

State played a huge part. They went 15 of 30. Torne Dorn was 4 of 7, and Al Freeman was 7 of 7.

So anytime a team shoots like that, you're going to

be in trouble. And, you know, I felt at the beginning, UNC got an early lead in the first few minutes.

And I was having flashbacks to last year of the blowout. But NC State held on that first punch,

and then they were able to counter and pretty much made it a dog fight

the rest of the game. But anytime you let a team shoot 15 of 30 from the three point line,

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