Welcome to IC Daily for Friday.

May the 8th.

I'm Tommy Ashley.

That, of course, is Greg Barnes.

We are, of course, sponsored by Johnny T-shirt, Johnny T-shirt.com, and go to Inside Carolina at the QR code or just type in Inside Carolina.com, sign up for your premium membership. Greg, a lot of chatter. We've done a couple football shows in a row. We're going to talk basketball today. A lot of chatter on the inside Carolina message boards about the NCAA tournament expansion and Carolina's

upcoming schedule or the 2627 schedule. And I'm going to be frank. I don't like either one of them

right at the moment. Let's talk about it.

Let's talk about the nature of Carolina's basketball schedule, A, over the years, and B, in the last few years, or the last couple years, and how that may change here with tournament

expansion.

Well, if we just look at what Roy Williams did for so long, I mean, if you look at Ken Parmerly's data,

under Roy Williams, North Carolina, more often than not, played a top 10 schedule nationally.

And that was for a reason. Number one, back then, the ACC, was if they weren't the best conference,

they were certainly at the very top nationally.

So you knew you were going to play a good schedule in conference.

And then Roy wanted to make sure that his teams were battle tested beyond conference play.

He wanted some high profile games to see how his team stacked up against some of the national elite

that they potentially would play in the NCAA tournament.

He loved that component of things.

And that's why I think North Carolina for so long was always considered one of the best programs in the country and why they had a lot of success in the postseason.

Now, granted, when you have a Hall of Fame head coach like Roy Williams, uh, and a lot of talented players that he brought in, that makes it a lot easier.

You know, and even Dean Smith played challenging schedules, so it's not unique

to Roy. But kind of what happened over the years, and we saw it several years ago, where

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