Welcome back to the Michigan Insider here on the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com.

And it's once again time for our weekly check-in with Michigan men's lacrosse coach Kevin Condering.

As we discussed in the show last week, we actually have two games to discuss as they squeezed in not just a game Saturday down in Durham, North Carolina against number six Duke.

But then they played on Tuesday this week.

Beautiful weather for the home game here in Ann Arbor.

Talk about those games and more.

We bring Kevin Connery back to the show.

Coach, welcome back.

How are you?

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me.

It's great to have you here on this show.

And so let's talk about the trip down to Durham first before we get to the matchup

against Canisius. And man, going down and facing a, you knew, obviously, as we talked about, a trip to North Carolina first against UNC, and then after the trip to Hobart going back down there to play North Carolina, you knew it was going to be a tough matchup.

And this was one of those nip-and-tuck games.

Did anybody ever have more than a, I guess, one time briefly early in the game, you had a two-goal lead?

Otherwise, this game was never more than a goal or two disparity throughout the course.

The game was really close, nip and tuck.

Unfortunately, you ended up on the wrong end at the end.

Yeah, you know, it was a great lacrosse game.

I sold out, played so hard, really proud of our team.

We're just, you know, one play short. And, you know, when you play top

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