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008 - Previewing tonight's game at Northwestern 021126

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🗓️ 11 February 2026

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Previewing tonight's game at Northwestern

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And we're back here on the Michigan Insider, Big 1050WTCA online at the Big 1050.com. The Michigan men's basketball team, they won in Columbus on Sunday. Then they had a couple days between games. Yesterday was their travel day. Tonight they're at Northwestern. They, of course, come home tonight. And then they have a couple days between games tomorrow and Friday. And then Saturday, they will play UCLA for a whiteout wear white 1245 tip

0:22.4

tip off tip off at the Chrysler Center this Saturday but tonight it's Michigan versus

0:26.3

northwestern and we talked about this a little bit with Kyle Church assistant coach and GM for

0:30.7

Michigan men's basketball on the show on Monday and I haven't really, he calmed my nerves.

0:38.3

Let's put it that way.

0:38.8

He calmed some of my fears, some of my nerves.

0:41.4

Maybe I shouldn't use the word fears.

0:43.8

That's borrowed up the road by, that that might sound like we're talking about flopping or dirty playing or something.

0:48.1

But I, but the nervousness of having a game on the road against a team that is 10 and 14 in the

0:56.5

big 10 or sorry 10 to 14 overall and 2 and 11 in the big 10 you see that and you go all right

1:03.1

win move on but you have to go out there and play the game and they have some talented players

1:08.0

in the team now they only have two wins in January and February combined. They'd be at that stage of the season, though, they had a big home win against, and big, I mean, by disparity. They beat Penn State 94-73. They also won at USC 74-68. That might have been the game where USC has some serious injury issues. I think it was, yeah.

1:27.8

Because they've had, well, they've had injury issues all season anyway.

1:30.6

But I think that might have been one of the games they had those, the injury issues.

1:33.6

But those are their only two wins in Big Ten play.

1:36.4

And those came, what, Wednesday, January 21st and Thursday, January 29.

1:41.3

So eight days apart, their lone two wins in the Big Ten.

2:18.2

They did pick up, what was it, two wins, I'd say three wins in December. They beat Howard, Valparaiso, and Jackson State. It sucks that one person had to lose to an entire team. To an entire team. And then to start the year, they won five of their first six games. They won four in a row. So they beat Mercyhurst, Boston University, Cleveland State, DePaul, who is a power opponent out of the Big East, but they're a 500 team at best. And then after losing the Virginia, they beat South Carolina. South Carolina is in the bottom fifth, I think it is, of the SEC. Yeah. So they have a couple of wins over power opponents,

2:19.7

but they weren't very good power opponents.

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Northwestern just not very good this year.

2:28.7

And it's actually kind of surprising, partly because Collins has shown to be a pretty decent coach for the most part.

2:30.9

And the other part of it is they have like the guy who is,

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