Welcome back to the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTKA online at the Big 1050.com.

So last night, while we were all getting ready for and watching the beginning of what turned out to be a terrific national championship game in college football,

inside Michigan basketball was on the Big 1050 WTK, and you probably did not have a chance to hear from Dusty May last night because you were paying attention

to football. And usually at this time we bring to you Dusty May's media availability from

his weekly sessions on Monday. There was no session yesterday with schedules, including

MLK Day yesterday. So instead we're going to bring to you Dusty May from inside Michigan

basketball last night, getting you ready for tonight's matchup against Indiana at 7 o'clock at the Chrysler Center.

So here is Dusty May with Brian Bush from last night's Inside Michigan basketball.

Now here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTK.

Rested, recuperated after the trip out west for you and this team?

I wouldn't say rested and recuperated, but it's a good challenge

for us. You know, we're not going to make excuses. This is part of it. And so we have to be mentally

tough. But we've tried to do a good job of reprogramming ourselves just to get back to East

Coast time and get our circadian rhythm back. And so we had a good practice this morning.

How would you look back at what you saw from your team in those two games and also in all the

preparation, all that goes into that five-day stretch being away from home? Well, it's a blur because

things come at you so fast. So it's tough to even recall where you were four and five games ago, let alone 15 games ago.

But we did some good things.

I thought the second half against Oregon, to be honest, the first five to eight minutes we were really good.

And then the last 20 minutes, we were pretty darn good because we were able to separate

and we missed some wide open shots that were great possessions we

generated the guys credit to them they generated some some great looks came up some hustle plays

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