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Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Arizona vs. Michigan Basketball Final 4 Prediction, Preview, PLUS Big 12 Coaching Rumors

Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast

Pete Mundo

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.8870 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

It's time to preview March Madness Final 4 games with our Heartland College Sports Arizona vs. Michigan prediction.


Can the Wildcats pull off the upset and advance to the National Championship game? PLUS, we cover some Big 12 coaching rumors for two huge Big 12 programs.


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0:00.0

We've got the final four, and we are going to give you a prediction dialed down to the points and an over-under number for the Arizona and Michigan game.

0:10.2

Let's do it.

0:10.7

I'm Pete Mundo.

0:11.6

We're Heartland College Sports.

0:13.0

We cover the Big 12, and we're glad that you're here joining us, as always, as a part of the show.

0:17.9

Been doing this for over 10 years.

0:20.0

Started off with just me and a laptop,

0:21.9

and now we've grown it to the point where we have a very robust newsletter, digital operation,

0:29.4

YouTube channel, podcast, and more. So please make sure that you like the video and are subscribed

0:33.7

as well to the podcast or to the YouTube channel. And if you want to sign up for the newsletter, that's below as well.

0:39.4

So these two teams are very much mirror images of each other.

0:44.6

They just are.

0:46.1

They both score the ball with ease, tops in the Big Ten and the Big 12 in scoring,

0:50.7

field goal percentage, points per game, everything else.

0:53.3

They're all right up there.

0:55.6

And they're also big. They got size. They like easy buckets. And when I'm looking at this game,

1:02.3

I'm seeing two teams that want to win oftentimes in very similar ways. They want to get the ball

1:08.0

down low. They want to get their points, want to drive the hoop.

1:11.2

Now, I'm looking at this game and I'm saying, what's a differentiator on the offensive side?

1:17.2

And for Michigan, the differentiator is the fact that they do shoot the three ball well

1:24.0

and they shoot it more frequently, certainly more frequently than Arizona.

1:30.4

Arizona shot the fewest three-pointers in the Big 12th this season. Michigan shot the sixth

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