Welcome to the A. C. C. Panic room alongside Lauren Brownlow. I'm joe obvious I'm in Brooklyn for the A. C. C. Tournament. Brownlow is back in Raleigh. That's right. You gotta you gotta you gotta hashtag go sec. That Lauren um No no real go A. C. C. Minus I guess unless the go A. C. C. This is the general vibe of been stealing is about to take place and it's gonna make things incredibly difficult for teams like wake forest. It's gonna make things difficult for Virginia who lost tonight against north Carolina. So that's kind of where things are right now with the A. C. C. But UNC looked pretty good. Oh hi rand little little panic room cameo. Anyway this is what happens on A CC. After dark while Brownlow is doing her own hospitality back in Raleigh regardless. Let's start with north Carolina's whenever Virginia that just happened. Um You know a lot of credit goes to what hubert Davis has been able to do towards the end of the season. Here they put leaky black on Kihei clark but Candice Candice is there too you know, warning their neighbors. All people hanging out. I love this maybe Candice can talk about leaky black on keith clark being the difference in this game. I don't I don't know that anybody here wants to speak of that game again. No probably not. It wasn't a good brady man. It did work in the first half leaky black defensively was pretty good and the rest is history. Nobody wants to watch play, nobody wants to watch for me to play basketball. Listen you know that I can't you know how I feel about Virginia. You also know I can't defend that. No you can't. There's no way to defend it. No way to defend it. Although it did it did give Jonathan rand unpleasant flashbacks to the 47 to 20 for N. C. State game to the point where he was like actively rooting against Virginia. Breaking that threshold. And I was like dude I got back there probably breaking it and then when when when they did he was upset. So that that was a real thing that happened in this game because that was that was the thing that happened. Yeah it was pretty gross what just happened. Look credit regardless of how you credit to Carolina. Okay so before yeah sorry I didn't mention your defense, Carolina. Okay I understand you played good defense. That's still not a thing that should happen from a college basketball team. Okay that's both can be true. Look Carolina easily could have fallen flat on their face after what happened against Duke on saturday. That's the big Super Bowl. Big emotional win. They've been. I mean those guys are legends for what happened on saturday at Cameron Indoor Stadium. So it's easy to come out in this game flat against a team that was probably revenge minded after they took it to them in Chapel Hill. Virginia had nothing again. It gets back to leaky Black's defense. Pretty mad. I can get all the points. But I thought leaky Black was the big difference in the game today. He really did. And I mean, look, they, I told you, I think I would be almost more impressed if they were to win this game after that game. And certainly if they were to do it convincingly and that's exactly what they did, they did not mess around like they never let this get close. It wasn't always pretty on their end. But like you said, they did it with defense and they did just enough. They were far less ugly than Virginia, which the bar was, you know, unfortunately on the ground for that. But you know, Yeah, it's kind of, it's kind of bad. So they're going to see Virginia Tech, who I mean they dominate most of the game. Notre dame came back a little bit late in that contest. I was at Madison Square Garden watching um, versus ST john's but there was a tv, the elitist elite new york media. Huh? You were at Madison Square Garden instead. Is that is that how this is? You're not a CC anymore. Get out of here. I wore this shirt. I wore this shirt while I was at Madison Square Garden. Thank you very much. All right. All right. I was wrong. No, actually, I made friends. I made friends with this guy named walter um who's like retired fireman who's now a bouncer at at McSorley's. So which is a very famous pub where they only serve two types of beer. So yeah, I mean I had I had a grand old time, one guy, the guy who was literally sitting next to me sold Gulfstream jets to people. So I mean it's it's it was a pretty wild scene there or what? No, he didn't, he didn't, I couldn't get one on a discount unfortunately. But um so yeah, I didn't wasn't able to watch most of that game because I was at Msg, but earlier in the day, Duke and Syracuse, Duke literally gutted out a win against Syracuse. Yeah, I mean they were throwing up the day before Coach K chris Crowe. Well, some players, they got some stomach bug, some some food poisoning. I don't know. I mean I know that. I have no idea. Yeah, I know what the protocols used to be. I understand that. Like back when they used to have stomach bugs and flu go through locker rooms, everybody was just like whatever, we'll still continue sharing a locker room. Like it doesn't matter. But I mean if I'm Duke, I probably want to figure out if it's food poisoning or a stomach bug because that's kind of an important distinction. That's all I'm saying, like one is contagious, one isn't, so when he said it was either or I was like, you know, I want to know that I'm just, I'm just putting that out there. Yeah, well they didn't know if it was food poisoning or some sort of, I was like, I probably want to know that considering it's contagious and he's, he was hoping that tournament next week, I might want to know that. Well, you get it out of your system now, you get out of here. That's the important part. You literally get it out of your system because it's funny at first I was watching this game and I'm thinking, man, Duke just does not look like they're with it today and the coaching staff looked like they were just over it and then you come to find out that was going on. However, that doesn't mean that some of the things that we saw against Syracuse today are an anomaly. That's not true a lot. The reason why, I mean you and I were messaging back and forth wondering if Duke was broken after what had happened against north Carolina. I think it just kind of continues with dukes tendencies where they don't seem to be on the same page all the time. They also go on these runs like they're up 12 points. They go on these runs and the general attitude is okay. You go sleep now other team because you just put up a 10 point run on you, you go bed now you're good, we're going to continue on. Um and the other team goes, no, no, we're not really interested in that. So that's what happens. Yeah. And I think that, you know, they're not playing defense at as high level as they were earlier in the season and that helps you when you're going through any kind of cold stretch and that's just not a thing that they're doing as well. I mean I'm honestly pretty stunned that Syracuse found a way to stay in that game. And I think Syracuse deserves some credit for it. But I also feel like, you know, as the game got later, you could tell Dick was feeling a little nervous. There were that's been a tendency this year. I will say this about Syracuse. I think that was a once, I think the circumstances around Syracuse were designed for this type of game. Buddy Boeheim was not there because of this is what he was there, but he wasn't playing the game because of the suspension after he had punched Wyatt. Wilkes in the gut jimmy was like pouring his guts out in the figurative sense for his brother. It was an incredibly emotional press conference after the game. Jim Boeheim called it the greatest season coaching his basketball program at Syracuse because he had his two kids, but then he was like, I'm coming back. Yeah, I mean because it's entirely possible he could have one of his kids still playing for next year, given the incident play rules. Yeah, it's gonna be tough, but it's possible. Yes. Yeah, like, like mike Waters of Syracuse dot com even pointed out like are you sure? Because the record was pretty bad. He was like no it doesn't matter. It was the greatest season I've coached because we got to coach kids. So I think those circumstances added to the fact that jimmy was able to do what he did. If buddy played in this game it might have gone the same way that we had seen the two previous matchups. Yeah he was like who knows? Maybe we lose by 20th buddy plays just because of the circumstances are different. Yeah it's entirely possible. That would have been the case. Now Duke's gonna get Miami, Miami is the only team that didn't manage to beat this year in the because of one single one off when they went to Cameron indoor stadium. That was one of those last minute games. I don't know if Miami goes into this game thinking the same thing that we know we can beat these guys and do can be shaky. You know they probably thought that about boston college too. And look how that almost turned out. Yeah boston college almost ruined everything for everybody here at the A. C. C. Tournament had beaten Miami then we really would have been into a dicey situation as it relates to the tournament in the amount of bids. It's wild how just the A. C. C. Manages to find the banana peel at every opportunity this season when it comes to NC double A. Tournament literally like you go back through everybody's resume and you're like how do you lose? Okay because that's just what A. Cc teams do this year, whatever game they can't lose that you're like how do you lose that game? That's what they did. They lost it. Alright that's gonna wrap it up for this this edition of the A. C. C. Panic room. I'm gonna go hang out with my big east friends, Lauren, you go hang out with our Raleigh friends by rand, what do you eat? Meat? Mcdonald's back. Their brand was clutch. He brought he brought nuggets and Mcdonald's fries. That's a good addition to the spread here. Nice, nice look at rand coming through. At least he came through for somebody today. I'm kidding rand. He knows I love him. Otherwise we would not have gotten him a sec tournament swag or the super Mario brothers, you know, but I got the world of Nintendo super Mario. Oh no, just adding to the collection, Lauren. All right, we'll see you tomorrow night after the semi finals here at the sec tournament