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Last night, the Michigan men's basketball team beat Virginia Tech 7563.

They took a one point halftime lead and extended that out.

Really solid second half led by Roddy Gale Jr. who led all scores with 20 points in the game.

Michigan advances to play Xavier tomorrow at 830 in the championship game down in Fort Myers, Florida.

Now at the time that Dusty spoke after the game last night, they did not know who their

upcoding other who their opponent was going to be.

Obviously, the second game had to be played.

But everything else that happened in the game last night, Dusty talked about.

And we're going to get to that right now. So here's Dusty May post game from last night.

A little bit of Michigan basketball during this very important Michigan football week.

So let's get to Dusty May right now here on the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTK.

They turned this into a home game.

A couple of the workers outside said that they felt like this was the best crowd that they have seen and they've had

some schools that really travel well in this event so I want to show gratitude towards our fans

they did give us extra energy tonight was a little bit choppy like it has been at times all year and

I feel personally like and the staff feels the same way that we're learning a lot

about ourselves through these experiences and until you've been in these battles with guys you don't

really know how they're going to respond to certain things but I do think we tightened up defensively

the last 15 minutes we're able to change our coverages up a few times and then our guys communicated

and adapted well on the fly and came up some really big 50-50 loose basketballs in the last five or ten minutes that I think gave us a little bit of a margin of breathing room on the offensive end when we weren't really clicking.

James, you know what we're going to what, we'll back to what Roddy said about,

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