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North Carolina heads into the ACC Tournament as the number one seed and fresh off a series win at Duke to close the regular season. Head coach Scott Forbes joins hosts Tommy Ashley and Grace Nugent to discuss getting to this point in a long grinding season and how his team is best prepared for the challenges of postseason baseball. Ashley and Nugent also discuss post season awards as eight Diamond Heels earned All-ACC honors, Vance Honeycutt repeated as the ACC’s Defensive Player of the Year and Forbes himself earned ACC Coach of the Year for his managing of the Heels despite injuries to two critical starting pitchers.

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Inside Carolina's Taylor Vippolis is joined by MassLive.com's Patriots beat writer Chris Mason to talk about the Patriots drafting Drake Maye after Mason went to Carolina to write a feature on the quarterback.

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With North Carolina's final mid-week game of the season against UNC-Wilmington rained out, head coach Scott Forbes joins Inside Carolina's Tommy Ashley and Grace Nugent to talk practice routine, preparation ahead of the final regular season weekend and pitching. In addition, Nugent and Ashley dig into Coach Forbes's background and what influences and events shaped the man himself.

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Taylor Vippolis is joined by Sherrell D. McMillan, Greg Barnes, and national champion Marcus Ginyard to draft a starting five from Carolina basketball players needing one player from each of the past five decades.

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The college transfer portal has closed and while North Carolina’s coaching staff remains diligent in mining that portal for experienced talent, high school recruiting is the focus of this week’s Inside Carolina Noon Dish with expert Don Callahan and host Tommy Ashley. Official visit season ramps up in the coming weeks with the month of June being a hectic time around the Kenan Football Center and the program with the large number of visits from current commits and recruiting targets. Callahan and Ashley discuss that and the arrival of Callahan’s first look at the 2026 recruiting class and the tiers of talent associated with a deep in-state talent pool. This week’s top five, given the summer season is near, top five beaches.

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With final exams in session at the University of North Carolina, the Diamond Heels had the weekend off. But as head coach Scott Forbes tells Inside Carolina's Tommy Ashley and Matt Clements, there is no rest for his coaching staff or the team as preparations for a midweek tilt versus Campbell and the last home ACC series against Louisville are the current focus.

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