Welcome back to The Michigan Insider, the Big 1050 WTCA online at the big 1050.com.

We've got a lot of football. We've got a lot of basketball to get to. Of course, the Michigan Wolverines are back in action on the gridiron this Saturday out in Chicago against Northwestern at Wrigley Field. Really looking forward to that one tonight. The Michigan men's basketball team is back in action as they take on Wake Forest in the Wolverine Deacon Challenge down at Little Seasons Arena. So a little basketball right now.

We heard from Dusty May here on the show yesterday.

Then we got to go. on Wake Forest in the Wolverine Deacon Challenge down at Little Seasons Arena. So a little basketball right now.

We heard from Dusty May here on the show yesterday.

Then we got a lot more from Dusty May yesterday after the show when he had his regular Monday sit down with the media.

So here is Dusty May with the media from yesterday.

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

What have you seen from

week and how was your team kind of responded to the last several days of practice heading into

this well I'll begin with the second part of the question I feel like we're a much better basketball

than we were one week ago um we did some good things at home especially shooting the basketball

but there we had we after analyzing the film we knew we had a lot to clean up on and build upon.

So we're certainly better than we were.

Wake is going to be a very challenging matchup for us.

They're physical like Cincinnati.

They're going to push us off our spots.

So obviously our ability to take care of the basketball're going to push us off our spots. So obviously our ability

to take care of the basketball is going to be pivotal. They also have smaller, versatile bigs,

and as the first three games have shown us, that's been a little bit of a hole in our defense.

You know, we've got great size, and on the other end, we've been able to take advantage of that size around the rim.

But on the defensive end, we've got to find a way to contain these small, versatile,

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