A chat with Bill Raftery; U-M makes case as nation's best team - Michigan Basketball Insider
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🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Tim McCormick and Sam Webb discuss Michigan's impressive victory over Ohio State, Hunter Dickinson's dominant effort versus the Buckeyes, and the impact play of Chaundee Brown and Mike Smith. Bill Raftery joins the podcast to shares his thoughts on Juwan Howard, how Michigan stacks up with Baylor and Gonzaga, his take on the all time greats, and more. The podcast closes with Tim and Sam also debating the quality of refereeing in the Ohio State game and previewing the Wolverines' matchup with Iowa.
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| 0:00.0 | This holiday season, Amazon brings you an unmissable month of festive football. |
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| 0:30.4 | And we are back, folks, on an exciting edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider. |
| 0:35.6 | I guess I should say here on the Michigan Basketball Insider, it is always exciting to sit down with my man, Tim McCormick. |
| 0:42.8 | A basketball great here at the University of Michigan first round draft pick in the NBA. |
| 0:48.3 | Excellent basketball commentator, whether he's talking Pistons or NBA with Fox or talking college basketball is a great |
| 0:57.1 | color guy or offering his analysis here on the Michigan Basketball Insider. |
| 1:03.8 | Tim McCormick is outstanding. |
| 1:05.1 | But Tim, when we talk about what we're seeing from this Michigan basketball team this year, |
| 1:09.5 | it's just another level of |
| 1:11.1 | excitement, my man. How are you? I'm good. I'm really good. You're outstanding as well, |
| 1:17.1 | but neither one of us is as outstanding as this Michigan basketball team. That Ohio State |
| 1:22.6 | win made me so happy. Obviously, it's huge when you're number three in all of college basketball and you |
| 1:29.3 | want a Big Ten title and you're playing Ohio State on the road. But from a different perspective, |
| 1:36.2 | the quality of the game was phenomenal. And I will remember this one for a long, long time. |
| 1:43.5 | Now, there have been bigger games in Michigan history, the national championship game against |
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