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Last night, Michigan beat Cleveland State 101.53.

You heard from a couple of players.

Now let's hear from the head coach, Dusty May, who met with the media last night.

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

I can begin by showing gratitude and appreciation to all military personnel and those that serve.

What a great cause to start the season for our program.

Overall, very pleased with the team effort.

I thought we had great competitive spirit.

Our fans were great.

Overall, just a good, solid performance starting the year.

Chris, you want to start a lot? Everybody's going to want to talk about all the offense, but can you just talk about the

defensive intensity from the get-go and the way you guys played together?

Yeah, Cleveland State's different than the other two teams we played.

They have downhill driving athletes, and the first couple of minutes of the game, they got into the pain.

They made a couple tough shots. They banked in an 18 foot or whatnot. I thought our guys then

adjusted and kept their bodies in front of the basketball. They supported each other in the gaps.

We were much more active off the ball than we had been up to this point. And sometimes you just

need game reps to improve on weaknesses. So if you're very intentional and you have an intelligent group, which we do,

we should be able to improve every single game,

even when we're not playing well offensively or the other team has a good shooting performance or whatever.

You're trying to build to have the best habits by January, February, and March when it really matters.

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