We shift gears.

We welcome you back to the Michigan Insider on the Big 1050 WTCA.

Online at the Big 1050.com.

We shift gears from Michigan recruiting to Michigan basketball.

The Wolverines are in West Lafayette, Indiana for a matchup with the 11th rain boiler makers tonight.

Here are Sam Webb and Tim McCormick talking Michigan men's basketball.

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

And welcome to another edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider.

I love these episodes, especially after a win.

And the Wolverines are back on that winning track, got that bad taste out of their mouths.

And I like to say, sometimes you've got to win ugly.

And the Wolverines got one of those types of wins over the Northwestern Wildcats joining me to break this down.

My big fella, I'm always, always in a good mood. When I see my man Tim McCormick, he was an

All-American out of Clarkston, Michigan,

with Clarkston, Michigan back in the 1980s, a first round draft pick in 1984,

played 10 years in the National Basketball Association, and now is one of the best

basketball commentators in the land.

But I always describe him first as my guy.

He's my friend, my man.

Timmy Mack, but you know him.

That's Tim McCormick.

Tim, how are you, my friend?

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