Tommy Lloyd is one of the fastest risers in college basketball.

Elite regular season success, international recruiting routes, and a modern offensive system.

The question is whether that translates to March and whether it fits at a place like North Carolina.

I'm Joey Powell for Inside Carolina.

This is a special episode, special podcast.

We're diving into the coaching candidates for the UNC basketball job.

What do you say we get into it?

I know. All right. We're happy you're here. I'm Joey Powell. As mentioned, with me tonight, Rob Harrington and Sean Moran. I don't know if I've ever done a show with just you two guys. So we're to see how this goes. Don't on the table. See how it plays. But as everyone who's listening to this undoubtedly knows at this point, North Carolina is looking for their next basketball coach to replace Hubert Davis.

And, you know, I want to allude that, you know, Tommy, Shirel, Greg Barnes, are the usual hitters are the ones that are absolutely driving this train.

But we want to give you a little more color today about the guys that are on the head coaching hotboard.

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So first things first, guys, you know, talking about Tommy Lloyd.

He's been an assistant for 20 years under Mark

Few, which everybody knows, a long time, successful coach at Gonzaga. He was actually the

lead assistant for a few when North Carolina beat Gonzaga in the national championship in

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