Welcome back to another edition of the Wolverine.com podcast.

Name is Chris Ballas with me, special guest, Zach Novak, who turns 36 on Sunday and makes me feel really old, brother. I hate it, but you look good, man. You've been dropping some weight? What are you doing? OZepic or what's going on here? Yeah, no, no, not taking the shot. a lot of Peloton, a little bit of weight.

Just trying to, yeah, trying to keep it off and not have to get it off.

Yeah, and I saw you guys drinking a few beers at the final four.

So probably watching what you eat more than what you drink.

Maybe a little bit of that, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Miller Lights, I think.

Maybe a couple of guys in a bit of a sense.. Yeah. There's Miller Lights, I think. Maybe a couple of guys mixed in. You would spike and I think, was it Stowski? Nick Stouski was there. Stu was there. Yeah, there was a whole bunch of guys. They were there. Yeah. And right in your former backyard there kind of anyway. So a little bit south of chesterton but how fun was that man watching

this program one that you helped turn around and man you got dusty may there with the indiana

ties obviously and uh obviously you're a fan i ever once in a while i would get an angry text from you

and they were things weren't going well and uh but this is like too good to be true almost isn't it

you know i i i don't want to say it was unexpected coming into the year because I think we saw a lot of momentum last year. And, you know, even from the second, Dusty was hired just the way he engaged with some of the alums. Like we knew we got a good one. I don't think anybody was thinking we were going to win the whole thing this

year. And so, you know, obviously I had the Thanksgiving tournament where it kind of like pretty

quickly became a reality. And so, you know, it was a fun year to watch. And I think just as they

went down the stretch, just like the thing was crazy crazy it's like the level of talent especially the

front court i mean you see what those guys are doing at the combine now and in hindsight it's like

all right i could see why we why we won a lot of games yeah but you know it was just it was cool and

you know i think the the fun thing for me has been the last you know two years and really this last

year is like expecting

to win again and you know, you get that kind of fire built up and that's why you're getting

some of the angry texts and what's funny.

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