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MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen

Defend the Block 324 - Winters Grady & Ashley Sofilkanich

MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen

The Varsity Podcast Network

Michigan, College, Sports, Ncaa, Jon Jansen, Wolverines, Football

4.8734 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Two new members of the Michigan Basketball family join us this week on Defend the Block. Men's basketball freshman Winters Grady discusses the impact of analytics on his game, his basketball journey to this point, and his acclimation process with the program. Then, around the 22-minute mark, women's basketball transfer Ashley Sofilkanich details her productive career at Bucknell, her excitement to be at Michigan, and the team's summer work to this point.

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I'm not breaking any news here by saying that great teams, special teams, all-time teams, need stars.

1:05.8

But the really good ones over the years, especially here at Michigan,

1:10.2

tend to supplement those

1:11.6

stars with a lengthy list of players worth mentioning, having big memories, players who stepped

1:18.0

up for a big game or a big play, players who fulfilled their role.

1:23.1

On the basketball side of things, I love reflecting back to that 2018 run to the National

1:27.6

Championship game on the men's side, because each one of those NCAA tournament games

1:32.7

had a different player worth mentioning.

1:35.9

Geron Simmons, kind of rescuing Michigan on a sleepy late-night game against Montana early

1:41.6

on.

1:42.3

CJ Baird capping Michigan's best performance of the season against Texas A&M.

1:47.4

Those names right up there with Jordan Poole against Houston, or Duncan Robinson's big shots

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