Defend the Block 171 - Toledo Recap
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🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The Wolverines knocked off Toledo in the first round of the NIT on Tuesday night at Crisler Center. Brian breaks down the win before chatting with his broadcast partner Terry Mills (11:00), fifth-year senior Joey Baker (15:00), and Head Coach Juwan Howard (17:30).
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| 0:00.0 | Quote, it's just an opportunity to play the game that we love, end quote. |
| 0:05.5 | That's what Joey Baker told me a few hours before the Wolverines tipped it up against Toledo |
| 0:10.3 | in round one of the NIT at Chrysler Center on Tuesday night. |
| 0:14.0 | Certainly, this destination was not what the Wolverines had envisioned at the start of the season. |
| 0:19.3 | When you reach five consecutive sweet 16s, expectations are high, no matter who you have on your ball club, no matter how |
| 0:26.3 | the early and middle stages of the season go. And that's unfortunately the nature of the beast. |
| 0:32.7 | Michigan was not able to live up to those high expectations. They are not going to the postseason tournament |
| 0:38.7 | that everybody wants to go to. They're here in the NIT. But Joey Baker, he certainly made the most |
| 0:45.4 | of another opportunity to play the game that he loves. Michigan came out a bit sluggish. Toledo |
| 0:50.6 | led for pretty much the entire first half, but Joey Baker was a big reason why the |
| 0:55.2 | Wolverines matched that potent Toledo offense, almost shot for shot in the first half. |
| 1:01.4 | Baker had 10 tied for the team lead. He was four of six from the floor. And then in the second |
| 1:06.2 | half, the cavalry came. Baker had 11. Kobe Buffkin with 16 of his team high 23 points. Hunter Dickinson |
| 1:14.5 | was balanced with 10 points in the first half, nine in the second half, and the Wolverine |
| 1:18.9 | stormed out of the gates in the second half and really led the final 19 plus minutes of this |
| 1:24.6 | ballgame out scoring the Rockets by 12 after intermission. |
| 1:28.8 | That performance, that second half surge grants the Wolverines simply this, another chance |
| 1:34.4 | this weekend to play the game that they love with this roster. |
| 1:38.3 | You never know when it'll be the final game. |
| 1:40.5 | The thought is that Joey Baker might be wrapping up his collegiate career, though he did say after the game in the post-game press conference with media that he will apply for a medical redshirt to try to get one more season. |
| 1:53.2 | No matter what happens with that, with the rest of this season, Michigan took an opportunity in front of them, not the ideal one, not even close to it, |
| 2:02.5 | to be honest, and they made the most of it. Was it pretty? No, at times, Toledo certainly mucked |
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