I'm really excited to share with you my conversation with former Wolverine Hayes grooms here momentarily.

Hayes is a Michigan Wolverine through and through. He, along with Peloton, his company,

they've created something really special with Michigan athletics. But before we get into that,

I wanted to dig into the Michigan men's basketball schedule, which did get released by the Big Ten

since our last episode. One of my first thoughts stemmed from what Saudi Washington talked about

here on the show a couple of weeks back. He did not look at last season as a low, which was one of

the questions and how I framed one of the questions of the highs and lows of his time in the

program. More so he saw last season as one of missed opportunities.

Some come to mind a bit quicker than others, especially those two to end the regular season.

Yet each and every close call combined to cost Michigan a chance to get back into the NCAA tournament.

And for as awful as back-to-back

overtime losses at Illinois and at Indiana to close the regular season were, the Wolverine's

resume took a similar hit when they couldn't finish off the likes of Virginia at home, North

Carolina in a quote-unquote neutral site game, but basically a road game in Charlotte, and then

all the way out in London against Kentucky in some key non-conference games. And the reality is Michigan has not earned a

truly impactful non-conference win away from home since the 2019-2020 season. Closest to it

was last year when Michigan beat Pitt in Brooklyn in November, and then the very next game,

they got blown out by Arizona State.

Now, that 2019-2020 season, we did not get a chance to see an NCAA tournament because

of the pandemic.

But look at how differently the close to that season felt compared to this past season.

Michigan, by no means, was rolling into the postseason.

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