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The Valenti Show

Best of college basketball on 97.1 The Ticket: Where this Michigan team ranks in history

The Valenti Show

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Michigan stands alone at the top! Join 97.1 The Ticket as we recap the win over UConn and debate this team’s place in the history books. We also show some love to second-year coach Dusty May as he builds the next Wolverines powerhouse.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey now. All right, we're ready to roll on a Tuesday. We had Rico brow beating Brendan Shabbath.

0:07.9

We got Jeremy Otto's birthday today. You know pregnancies in the hair. We have so much to do.

0:14.4

But the big news of the day, no brow beating. It's not Jeremy.

0:21.0

I'm the big winner. I'm the big winner.

0:22.6

Mikey's the big winner.

0:23.8

Michigan wins the national championship.

0:26.0

I win the bet with Rico, almost executed a prank, and we've got a lot of good stuff.

0:31.8

I want to do this.

0:33.3

There are multiple ways for us to talk about Michigan winning it all.

1:11.6

No, no, no. For the congratulations. Thank you. You called it. You saw it. That's right. Forecasted it. You didn't even need Arizona. He just threw them in as a throw in. Well, you were offering two teams back in January, so I said, okay. So, yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. And I'm sorry that Evan and I pranked you. No, we're not bringing in a live habachi chef Thursday for the day game. That almost got ugly. It was like, wait, what? David, I know listeners, you didn't get to see Rico's face, but David did, and it was glorious. I had convinced, no, no. Oh boy.

1:14.9

Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. I just need to let you know.

1:20.3

Thank you. For those who aren't watching, I am down in the hat. Dude, that hat is the most ridiculous thing in the world. We had Rico convinced that we had corporate catering from a very

1:26.2

well-known Habachi house coming in on Thursday,

1:28.9

and Rico was footing the bill.

1:30.5

Here's the ways we can do this.

1:32.2

Yeah, we're from a sad bowl to, wait, I'm feeding everybody, huh?

1:37.1

He was in the middle of a conversation, people, and then immediately looked over at Mike and said,

1:42.0

what are you talking about?

1:43.4

He looked like Bill Raftery when the buzzer-beater happened.

1:48.2

Duke and Yukon.

1:49.4

He went Bill Raftery mode.

1:51.3

It took, we go about seven seconds to sway around and go, wait, whoa, whoa, what?

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