Defend the Block 325 - Kendall Dudley & Aday Mara
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
The Varsity Podcast Network
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Brian visits with a pair of UCLA transfers who have made their way to Ann Arbor. To begin the show, women's basketball sophomore Kendall Dudley shares her reasons for becoming a Wolverine, reflects on her chance to play in the Final Four, and offers her early impressions on the Michigan program. Then, around the 16-minute mark, men's basketball junior Aday Mara discusses how he learned English, his college career to this point, the impact of the Wolverines' summer work, and some of his favorite recipes.
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| 0:00.0 | At Matalan, the one you've been waiting for is here. |
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| 0:18.7 | Season C's apply. |
| 0:20.0 | On the surface, today's two guests have really only one primary overlap that jumps off the page. |
| 0:25.7 | They both transferred from UCLA to Michigan this spring. |
| 0:29.0 | Kendall Dudley on the women's team, Adaira on the men's team. |
| 0:33.4 | Yet I do think there's another to consider. |
| 0:35.9 | Belief in the proof of concept that both Michigan basketball programs have showcased. |
| 0:41.1 | For years now, Kim Barnes-Arico's Wolverines have strived to be the hardest working team in America. |
| 0:45.9 | As you'll hear from Kendall here in a bit, she firmly believes that coming out of summer work, |
| 0:49.9 | which is impressive considering her initial collegiate stop, a UCLA program that got to the final |
| 0:55.8 | four this past season. And this is not to say that Kendall and the Bruins didn't work hard last |
| 1:00.9 | year. Of course they did. They played in April. They had a wonderful season. But for Kendall to see it |
| 1:06.5 | enough to commit and then to go through it for just a little while here over the summer and believe |
| 1:11.6 | it the way that she'll talk about. |
| 1:13.3 | That's revealing, especially for a player who has been where Michigan has worked so hard to get |
| 1:18.2 | to for the first time, the final weekend of the season. |
| 1:21.4 | On the men's side, that proof of concept isn't as embedded yet, but year one of the Dusty |
| 1:26.9 | May era opened up a world of possibilities |
| 1:29.7 | and intrigue when it comes to big men. Vlad Golden and Danny Wolfe's Area 51 combination, |
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