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Took Dusty May, what, I'll do the math, 24 games to get his first signature victory as the head coach at the Michigan Wolverines.

But you can tell as you were listening to Dusty in his comments, he really learned a lot early on in his, uh, in his tenure here in

Ann Arbor.

He really, he picked up on a lot.

You can think you know how physical the big 10 is when you play big 10 teams in the

NCAA tournament.

As he had mentioned, he had, uh, faced against Northwestern.

And he thought he knew how physical the big 10 was going to be, but he didn't.

And they, as he talked about, they weren't quite prepared for it, the way they prepared

the team.

But the team has since adjusted to that and they're battling through that and they're working

through it on the practice side of things and we're seeing them really grow through that in the on-court part of things.

And that's the thing about Big Ten physical, physical Big Ten basketball is it's not how most

college basketball games get officiated once you get into March.

But what it does, the teams like John B-Line teams that learned how to play through the

physicality but were not overly, they did not overly foul.

They were aggressive enough.

They were, and obviously at the end of the B-Line era under Yacolish, they had some really

good defensive teams, but they were physical enough.

And they were able on the defensively, they were able to fight through it and battle through it and play physical with those teams.

You learn how to do that once you become a coach in the Big Ten.

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