Welcome on into the Wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safee here with Aunt Wright, college basketball analyst for On 3 and the Wolverine and former Michigan basketball player.

It's officially the postseason in college basketball the best time of the year, according to some.

I'm in that boat, although football season is rivals that, as does summer.

But, man, super excited about the Big Ten tournament coming up here in Indy later this week,

starting Wednesday night with the 11, 14 game, 12, 13 game.

And then the NCAA tournament the next week, and it looks like Michigan is going to be participating,

whether that's in Dayton or getting a buy to the round of 64. And that is because of a huge win at Ohio State on

Sunday. Michigan wins by 6, 75 to 69. No Hunter Dickinson, which felt like that was kind of,

it almost felt fitting before the game where it's like, you know, they've been gearing up, this is the biggest game of the year, and they're not going to, you know, not going to have their best player. It kind of feels like that's how this year has gone. But Michigan battled despite that, something you couldn't have said about this team, I think, earlier on in the year. They have more fight,

and they showed that second half was outstanding. Devante Jones, I'm sure we'll talk about him, but he was fantastic. That was, in my opinion, his best game in a Michigan uniform. And just talk

about that performance. I mean, a must win game. We said must win about some other games before

that, but this was literally a must

win.

No debating that.

And they were able to get it done without Hunter Dickinson.

Yeah.

I think the other must win games was probably at Penn State and then home against

Rutgers.

Those are the two games that you had to have.

And then we talked about this.

You know, Michigan had to be six and four in the last 10 regular season games. And that's

what they were. And I said they had to beat Penn State. They had to beat Rutgers of those

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