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Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesaar and an emotional Seth Trimble after #UNC's win over Duke
Feb 8, 2026
Caleb Wilson, Henri Veesaar and an emotional Seth Trimble after #UNC's win over Duke
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the chain, the melt
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off that thing.
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I'm just a man of my word. That's all I
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got to say. That's all I'm going to say.
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You know, we got the win at home. You
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know, it was a big win, but you know, we
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always wanted to next. We played Miami.
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Duke is a great team and we'll see him
0:14
again.
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Caleb, what can you say about the
0:15
atmosphere in the game tonight?
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That [ __ ] was crazy. I'm not going to
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lie. I'm I'm glad the the fans [snorts]
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came out and support it and, you know,
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it was a lot of fun. I ain't never been
0:22
a part of a court storm, so that was
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crazy.
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Two court stoms.
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When you come to North Carolina, you
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come to play in this rivalry. How did
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the expectations meet what it actually
0:31
was?
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It was exactly how I thought it was
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going to be. You know, me and my
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teammates had a great game. We pulled it
0:36
together. We stuck together at the end.
0:37
You know, it was a great win.
0:38
And Caleb, all that all that motivation,
0:40
you know, Duke not following through
0:42
with their recruitment, the wallpapers.
0:43
Just take me through everything, all
0:45
that, and how you find you finally
0:48
capped it off and you lived up to your
0:50
word. Like you said,
0:51
I ain't lived up to it yet. We still got
0:52
to play him again. You know, it was a
0:54
great win, but it's a long season, you
0:56
know. Uh I'm glad we got the win. And I
0:58
feel like this is a great step in the
0:58
right direction for us as a team and me
1:00
individually, but it's always on to the
1:02
next on Tuesday.
1:03
You were getting through your head when
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I saw Seth shoot.
1:05
I was happy as hell. I trusted he was
1:07
wide open and it went in all net. It was
1:10
like a dream.
1:11
You were really fired up in the huddle
1:12
in the first half when you guys,
1:15
huh?
1:18
I was excited, you know. I mean, I I
1:20
don't want to say I was excited. I was
1:21
frustrated because we got off to a slow
1:22
start and we need a team to win, you
1:24
know. It can't just be me. It can't just
1:25
be Seth. It can't be just Henry, you
1:27
know. So, I felt like we just had to
1:28
band together and get the win.
1:29
At the end, were you spanking the
1:31
scorers table? What was that?
1:33
That was just that was just me
1:34
celebrating. I was having fun with it.
1:36
Part of two court stormings before.
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Yeah.
1:38
No, no, no. That was crazy. That was
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crazy.
1:40
For most of the game, it felt like Duke
1:41
controlled the interior. How did you
1:42
guys hang around long enough to put
1:44
yourself in a position where you could
1:45
hit a three like that at the end of a
1:47
We just we just stuck with it, honestly.
1:49
You know, at the end of the game, we
1:49
focused on what they were doing and try
1:51
to neutralize it and we got the we got
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it.
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What does it say about this team's fight
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to be able to stick around for that long
1:55
and withstand punches? It just shows
1:57
that we hungry, you know. We We hungry.
1:59
We I mean, everybody overlooked us.
2:00
Nobody thought we would win this game.
2:02
We hungry to prove everybody.
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Take me Take me through those two
2:04
minutes when you scored 11 points here
2:05
in the first half.
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I just I knew we needed a spark and me,
2:09
I'm not a selfish player, so I always
2:11
try to get my teammates involved, but
2:12
when my team needed me and I saw what
2:14
they did, I just had to go.
2:15
What changed? Obviously struggled in
2:16
that first half, but what the second
2:17
half he turned that around. What did he
2:19
do tonight?
2:20
Uh he took over honestly. You know, he
2:23
put me in the back seat. I mean, I I was
2:25
happy to be there. I could focus on
2:26
defense and uh that was just amazing.
2:28
You know, he he he was a great player
2:29
tonight.
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Caleb, how would you describe that
2:31
finish, man?
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That [ __ ] was crazy. [laughter]
2:34
That was insane. Course storm, game one
2:37
and three, all that. It just feel like a
2:38
dream. Still can't believe it.
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Is that why you came to UNCC?
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For sure. That's exactly why I came. You
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know, them atmospheres and stuff like
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that. Yes, sir.
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Appreciate it.
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What's this belt you got around your
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neck here?
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Uh, it's just my thing, you know. I'm
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I'm going to take a picture with it
2:50
afterwards. You know, it's my it's my
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it's my little shrine.
2:53
Fellow freshman over there, Derek Dixon.
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How would you say he did?
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He played well. He he he led us at the
2:57
end of the game. Uh he just did what a
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point guard is supposed to do,
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especially UNCC point guard.
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What was your wall?
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My wallpaper was me as a kid cuz I I was
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motivated to I've always wanted to play
3:07
in a big game. So just knowing that me
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as a kid had the ability to do this as a
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as an older guy. It just meant a lot to
3:13
me and it really got me emotional.
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How fast your heart beating right now?
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It's going to be faster on Franklin in
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just a few minutes.
3:19
What was that scene like in the locker
3:20
room when you guys got back?
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It was crazy. uh water everywhere, Seth
3:23
getting celebrated, which he deserved
3:25
completely and you know, it was just a
3:27
lot of fun.
3:27
How cool is it from your perspective to
3:29
see Seth kind of have that moment in
3:31
this type of a game knowing that he
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stuck around here for 4 years and what
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he means to us?
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That's exactly what I was thinking when
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he made it. I was like, man, that's a
3:37
hell of a way to beat Duke on your
3:38
senior in your senior year. So, that was
3:40
amazing.
3:40
What does he mean to you guys, to this
3:42
program, to this everything?
3:44
He's a great leader and you know, he get
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it done. That's all I can say about he's
3:47
my guy. Caleb, I'm sorry I couldn't hear
3:49
you back in the back. But what what is
3:51
the belt exactly? What
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this? This is my uh thing. I didn't had
3:54
it. I said earlier in the year that we
3:57
going to put belt to everybody and so
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every time we have a big game, I bring
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it with me so I can remind myself to be
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a man of my work.
4:03
How were you able to will it along there
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and get to the finish line when it felt
4:07
like it was going wrong for 38 minutes?
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Pretty much
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we just stuck with it. Honestly, we were
4:12
just thinking, what are we doing to what
4:15
are we doing that's allowing them to
4:16
score easy buckets and what can we do to
4:18
make ourselves get noise?
4:20
Who would you credit to your success
4:21
here today?
4:22
Uh, honestly, the fans, the environment
4:26
really made me play at a whole another
4:27
level and I just put a lot of work in.
4:30
How much more basically shots up like
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like 12 bags or I had one three but
4:34
that's it. Second half my demons found
4:36
me and I was able to get in rhythm.
4:38
How would you describe that finish?
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I mean, it's incredible. I haven't seen
4:42
anything like that. So, just being able
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to see that for a game winner is
4:45
special.
4:46
What can this do for you guys the rest
4:47
of the way? You had a lot of adversity
4:49
in the middle of the season, people
4:50
doubting you, and now you guys pull off
4:51
this kind of win, a historic win for
4:53
you.
4:53
Yeah. I mean, I feel like just being
4:55
able to see that and show that the hard
4:56
work and when we stick to the coaches
4:57
plan, I got a lot of praise for the
4:59
coaches cuz as long as we follow the
5:00
plan, I think we always work. So that
5:04
way seeing that kind of only times when
5:05
they went on rounds were we got off
5:07
script or didn't play hard enough on
5:09
defense or didn't communicate. So seeing
5:11
that the coaches plan works and
5:12
everybody following is just special
5:14
because we know that if you keep doing
5:15
that every game we can win.
5:17
Jared said this was a statement win. Was
5:19
it a statement win? If so, what's the
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statement?
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No, for sure. I feel like that put us
5:23
back in a conversation cuz we were
5:24
before the count the California trip. So
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just being able to see that we're back
5:28
in that conversation where people ain't
5:30
doubting us hopefully no more after this
5:32
and showing that we're one of the
5:33
contenders for here.
5:34
What was it was the difference for you
5:35
individually in the second half scores
5:37
in the first half and a huge game in the
5:39
second half.
5:40
I feel like big part of it was just
5:41
being able to like get more touches my
5:43
teammates found me in the post being
5:45
closer to the basket just catching being
5:46
able to do one or two dribbles and get
5:48
into my hook.
5:48
Did you want to work on their guys in
5:50
foul trouble also? Was that part of it?
5:52
Work on their guy big guys who were in
5:54
foul trouble. Was that part of it? I
5:55
feel like part of it was we knew we knew
5:57
they were in foul trouble so we just say
5:58
keep bounding the ball inside and try to
6:00
get them out or there's two options.
6:01
They got to get either out of the way or
6:02
we can score.
6:03
Henry Caleb said he took a backseat to
6:05
you in that second half when you were on
6:06
your takeover run. What does that say
6:07
when he's able to focus on defense and
6:09
you start scoring?
6:10
I mean he played 39 minutes today. So
6:13
him being able to do that then be so
6:14
efficient while doing it and play
6:16
defense like a beast just it means that
6:18
like he just helps the team out overall
6:20
and he kind of I feel like we do a good
6:22
job as a team seeing if so much in the
6:24
role like first half ke so he kept out
6:26
giving the ball to him and in the second
6:27
half the coaches saw that it was working
6:29
when I was going and just the way he
6:31
everybody we have s so many good talents
6:33
on our roster that everybody is what
6:36
everybody's kind of willing to take a
6:37
step back if they ask us to do that that
6:39
way we can maximize what we can do and
6:42
just pick and the weaknesses that other
6:43
teams have.
6:44
Great stuff.
6:45
What point?
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Yeah. No, we got his We got his tail. We
6:48
got his tail in that locker room. He
6:49
said, "You want to win the game? We want
6:50
to win the game. We need you. You're one
6:52
of our best players. Uh there's no
6:54
reason why you shouldn't go kill in the
6:56
second half, especially J.
7:04
We not going to give up. We going to do
7:06
what we need to do uh to win. You know,
7:08
we were down that whole game. uh maybe
7:10
we didn't even deserve to win that game,
7:11
but the effort that we gave those last
7:14
six minutes was was incredible. For that
7:17
reason, we absolutely deserve
7:19
How would you like describe where you
7:21
guys were thinking in the final sequence
7:23
of plays?
7:24
Uh I was really frustrated myself. I
7:26
made had a silly turnover. Uh I knew
7:29
Malik Brown was a guy who really gets
7:31
his hands in places and fact I didn't,
7:34
you know, do anything else with the ball
7:35
placement really got under my skin. But
7:37
then it was time to get a stop. We've
7:38
been here before and we were just very
7:40
ready to get a stop and we did that and
7:42
then
7:42
sent I love you.
7:43
Love you too, Elijah. Ball came to me
7:45
and think nothing of it. You let the
7:46
shot go, knock it down.
7:48
What was saying to you while in those
7:50
timeouts?
7:53
Yeah, it was it was a fourminute it was
7:55
a four-minute type of game. Uh every
7:57
four minutes we we win the second half.
7:59
Uh we we knew we weren't necessarily
8:02
doing everything that we needed to do to
8:04
cut it down early in the second half. So
8:06
that 8 minute timeout and that
8:08
four-minute timeout were huge and we
8:10
want both of them thank you. So
8:12
a lot of guys on this team this is their
8:13
first time playing in this game. What do
8:15
you think about this tradition of that
8:18
to do?
8:19
This [ __ ] is real. Like I mean y'all saw
8:22
it like no other game no other game is
8:24
going to be as loud that as loud as that
8:26
other than the game at Cameron. Uh so
8:28
it's real. The atmosphere is real and
8:30
these fans I mean the alumni and the
8:32
coaches like they'll die for crazy.
8:35
You talked about knowing the importance
8:37
of the rivalry back to your brother
8:38
playing here. You will be now one of the
8:40
guys that they show when they're talking
8:42
about highlights. How does it feel to
8:44
kind of be cemented in kind of UNCC's
8:47
legacy?
8:47
It's a surreal feeling. It's crazy. I
8:49
haven't even thought about that. Uh when
8:50
I go to sleep tonight, that's the only
8:52
thing that's going to be in my mind.
8:54
You know, you dream of stuff like this.
8:56
You know, I grew up watching Marcus
8:58
Paige make clutch play after clutch
9:00
play. I grew up watching Kobe White just
9:02
get a bucket whenever it was needed. So,
9:05
to be able to step up in a moment like
9:06
that and put myself in that history book
9:08
is is it's a real family.
9:10
What's going through your mind after you
9:11
let the shot go?
9:12
Oh, I knew it was good. I had my little
9:14
I had my little fade away. It's like a
9:16
little old man fade away that I had. Uh
9:18
that was the that was I knew it was good
9:20
fade away. So, I mean, I knew it was
9:21
good to see it go through the rim. Uh
9:23
just to hear the crowd erupt with some
9:25
Caleb's wearing the bedazzled belt. Like
9:27
is that kind of symbolically y'all? I
9:28
mean
9:29
absolutely absolutely. I mean Caleb said
9:31
it since
9:32
shoot he said in what October I don't
9:34
even know when he said it but he said it
9:35
before the season even started and and
9:37
he stood on it and he stood on it so we
9:38
backed him up with that cuz you know if
9:40
he's going to do it we going to rock as
9:41
a team. Simple as that.
9:43
You tell your man was on my shirt
9:45
yesterday talking about you going to do
9:47
big things tonight. How does it feel
9:49
when guys like that support? Oh, I mean
9:52
having that support and my supporting
9:53
cast, they're the reason why I am today.
9:55
Not even basketball, but they're the
9:57
reason why I'm the man I am today. You
9:59
know, I'm a so much I'm I'm a much
10:00
better man than I'm a basketball player,
10:02
and it's because of that supporting
10:03
cast. So, really, I'm really really
10:04
thankful for it.
10:05
I know you've already been asked, but
10:07
just what were you seeing and thinking
10:08
as the shots coming up?
10:09
I knew it was good. I told him I hit my
10:11
little old man fade away as like a green
10:13
release is what us would say, but I knew
10:16
it was good. A second left my hand. So,
10:18
felt really good. It's my only [music]
10:19
one of the game. Is it going to be a new
10:20
flavor? A shot. [laughter]
10:24
It's all about corporate. It's all about
10:25
corporate.
10:26
I think that might do well. Get that
10:28
taste.
10:28
I'll think about it. I'll think about
10:30
what was the play coming out of the top.
10:31
What was that supposed to be?
10:32
Uh Philly 25 something that we run all
10:34
the time. You know, we get one of our
10:36
big rolling, one of our big popping. Uh
10:38
but Derek read it, made the right read,
10:40
and got downhill and made the right
10:42
play. Seth, that being your your final
10:45
UNCC Duke game here at home, you being
10:48
able to deliver that moment, I know
10:50
you've already been asked this, but what
10:53
does that mean to you and
10:56
it's special? I'm going to remember this
10:57
for the rest of my life. Uh,
11:00
no matter how this year ends, you know,
11:02
as I grow older, this will be something
11:03
that I remember celebrating with my
11:05
teammates, seeing the fans on the court.
11:08
My dad found me on the court. Uh we
11:11
yelled at him cuz the game wasn't over,
11:12
but he did fine. But just making a play
11:15
like that last home game, uh knowing how
11:18
much this game meant to me was something
11:20
crazy.
11:21
You had a lot of ups and downs in your
11:22
career to stick it out at this place and
11:25
then be rewarded to be in that
11:27
opportunity to make that kind of shot. I
11:29
know you just talked about what it
11:30
means, but can you at at this point
11:32
reflect on kind of that whole entire
11:34
Yeah. I mean, to me, adversity,
11:37
it's it's it's your greatest it's your
11:41
greatest friend. It's your greatest
11:42
support. Uh, you know, being able to go
11:44
through adversity, being able to
11:45
struggle, and being able to overcome it
11:48
builds you much more than anything
11:50
anything else can. I know once I get to
11:52
the next level, uh, it's it's going to
11:55
be even harder. It's going to be this
11:56
all over again. So, the fact I've been
11:58
able to go through this here and really
12:02
still have that love and honor and and
12:04
and blessing for that university means
12:05
so much.
12:07
Have you checked your phone yet?
12:08
No, no, no. You know, my boy, my
12:10
teammate's leaving me. I'm trying to get
12:11
the Franklin
12:12
question. Question when it when it came
12:15
out your fingertips like come on. What
12:17
were you feeling?
12:18
I said green. [laughter]
12:20
Hey, we said
12:22
goodbye.
12:24
[laughter]
12:25
A look good. Kyle's trying to take our
12:28
job.
12:30
What did What did Hubert say to you as
12:31
far as like anything motivational
12:33
necessary in that moment?
12:34
No, honestly, my teammates were the most
12:36
motivational ones. They were saying step
12:37
up and go help win that game. You know,
12:40
even after I had that turnover at the
12:41
end of the game,
12:42
they were saying, "We know who you are.
12:43
We believe in you. Go win if the ball
12:45
comes to you." So,
12:46
you're you're you're Hubert's only
12:47
four-year player.
12:48
Yeah, man.
12:49
For you to get that for him in this
12:50
moment for this team this season, what
12:52
does that mean?
12:53
Oh, yeah.
12:53
Uh, it just means a lot. Me and HD have
12:55
have we've came such a long way. We've
12:57
we've came such a long way in this. I
12:59
mean, I see him I see him like a father
13:02
figure now. All he's done for me. Uh
13:04
what he's put me through, shoot, at the
13:06
end of the day, what he's put me through
13:07
and how he's allowed me to grow, you
13:09
know, is he's he means so much to my
13:12
development over these last four years,
13:14
and I'm I'm super thankful for it.
13:15
Seth, you've talked about the mental
13:16
work that you've put in. How did it pay
13:19
off in a moment like Avery?
13:21
Uh oh. I mean that's that's 95% of it.
13:25
It's absolutely 95% of it. Uh
13:27
truthfully, I don't really know how else
13:28
to say it, but you got to have some big
13:29
balls to shoot a shot like that and not
13:31
[laughter] like that. Uh and it's it's a
13:34
lot of kudos to to the work that I put
13:35
in off of the court.
13:36
When I walked in here, I talked to
13:37
Garrison Brooks for a second. He said
13:40
you're the guy that had to take the
13:41
shot. You're the guy had to make the
13:42
shot. Especially with the way things
13:43
have changed. You got dudes from the
13:45
past that are saying you're the one that
13:47
needs to take the shot. Is that the
13:48
connection that you feel to this program
13:50
when they're saying you're the one that
13:51
needed their happiness that you're the
13:52
one that
13:53
Absolutely. Every alumni that you saw
13:55
here today, every former coach I see as
13:58
a big brother, a father figure, a mentor
14:01
like Coach Williams, I see him as as as
14:04
a mentor, as a father figure. Even coach
14:06
Larry Brown, you know, he reaches out to
14:08
me all the time and it just means so
14:10
much. So, just to continue to have that
14:12
support for them uh from from who I
14:15
consider my big brothers, guys like
14:16
Garrison, Theo, Kenny, it means so much.
14:19
This was the first game winner for UNCC
14:20
with under a second left since the Luke
14:22
May shot.
14:23
Jeez.
14:23
Do you did you watch that? Do you
14:25
remember?
14:26
Absolutely. I was on my couch watching
14:27
that. I was on my couch watching that. I
14:29
got up jumping up and down. That was
14:31
before that was before I had to stop
14:32
being a Carolina fan because I couldn't
14:34
be biased in my recruitment. So,
14:36
I still enjoy that year. Yeah,
14:38
there's a young dude on his couch today
14:39
that saw you do this.
14:41
Yeah,
14:42
you're a part of that now.
14:43
It's never going away.
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That's crazy.
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Have you sort of processed all this yet?
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No. No, I will when I go to bed, but I
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got a night to enjoy on my team cuz you
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know, we deserve this. Uh, you know,
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we're going we're going to celebrate.
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So,
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what's the biggest shot you hit before
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this?
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Biggest shot
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before this?
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Yeah, probably in high school, I guess.
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I hit a buzzer beat in my junior year uh
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to take us to take us to like
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essentially the Elite 8. Uh, and it
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really ain't been none since that.
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How much? How much buzz beater?
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Buzz beater. Yeah.
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So proud of you, dog.
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I was telling, man, you like a big
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brother.
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You submit it now.
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Yes, sir. You a legend. Hold on. I got a
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trivia question. You said,
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come on now, Mr. Do it all. Utility guy.
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He's got to go.
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Seth,
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you're going to be on these highlight
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for reals forever now, man. With Caleb
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Love and all these other guys. So,
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what's that like for you knowing that
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you're probably going to be on that
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Smith Center video from here on out?
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It's crazy. It's crazy. I mean,
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like this is what it's what I came here
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for, man. It's
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It means a lot. It means a lot. Like,
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I'm getting emotional, but
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I mean, it's what I came here for.
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Moments like this,
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games like this, and just to be that
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kind of player for my team means
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everything. You need to get the