The only good that can come from tagging Burns is trading him. And it won't be for a first or more. It'll be for a second and maybe some change at best based off the trades before the deadline.
UNC gets the win, but it wasn't a good one. If State hadn't gone so cold in the second half, this would have been a better game and maybe with a different outcome.
They can always use the this is a different regime that doesn't believe in him excuse for letting him go. That trade ship sailed and the Panthers weren't on it.