UNC’s March Sadness

Hang Up and Listen

Slate Podcasts

News, Sports, Sports News

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh discuss the ACC Tournament and the storied college basketball rivalry between UNC, Duke, and NC State. While once-mighty UNC and NC State navigate challenging seasons, Duke looks poised for a title run with Cooper Flagg at the helm. Later, sports writer Neil Paine joins the show to discuss NHL trade deadline drama, and to reflect on the closure of the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight. On the bonus episode available exclusively for Slate Plus members, Neil Paine sticks around to break down the NASCAR Cup series debut of Katherine Legge. Triangle College Basketball (2:55): The state of North Carolina’s powerhouse teams in the ACC NHL Trade Deadline (20:19): The Hurricanes’' surprising trade to Dallas of star Mikko Rantanen RIP 538 (42:07): Farewell to the analytical news and sports site that was about more than number crunching. (Note: time codes are only accurate for Slate Plus members, who listen ad-free.) Want more Hang Up and Listen? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately unlock weekly bonus episodes. Plus, you’ll access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page, or visit slate.com/hangupplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:10.1	It's Monday, March 10th, 2025. Welcome back to Hang Up and Listen.
1:28.1	We are the sports podcast here at Slate. Back with you again. I'm Alex Kirshner. I'm a contributing writer here at Slate. I also co-host the college football podcast Split Zone Duo. We have a meaty show this week. We will talk about two of the three men's basketball teams in the North Carolina Research Triangle, totally sputtering, while the other heads into March Madness as the favorite. We will also talk about the NHL trade deadline,
1:32.8	and we'll have a great guest as we do that. Right as hockey heads for some big economic changes
1:37.7	that are already seemingly causing some ripple effects. As usual, joining me this week is Lindsay Gibbs,
1:43.3	the publisher of PowerPlays, a newsletter that covers the biggest stories of the day in women's sports.
1:48.6	Lindsay, how are you? You were covering a conference tournament over this weekend. It looked fun.
1:53.2	Yeah, I was at the ACC Women's Basketball tournament, which is in my hometown of Greensboro, so love that.
1:58.3	I did get a notification today via the health app on my iPhone that my
2:04.5	resting heart rate had increased starting about six days ago. So March Madness, I think, is here.
2:11.4	And I need my Apple Watch to give me a little bit of a break, you know.
2:17.1	There are so many potential causes of elevated heart rates these days.
2:21.1	Who could isolate a single one?
2:23.3	And of course, it is allowed that you may use the term March Madness for women's basketball,
2:28.3	whereas if this were two or three years ago, we would have had to alert the copyright police
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