Defend the Block 349 - McNeese Recap
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The Wolverines closed out 2025 in style with a 12th consecutive win, 112-71 over McNeese inside a sold-out Crisler Center. After Brian and Terry share their initial thoughts, we head into the Michigan locker room around the 12-minute mark for conversations with Head Coach Dusty May, sophomore Morez Johnson Jr., graduate student Nimari Burnett, and Assistant Coach Kyle Church. The episode concludes with a full highlight recap from Monday night.
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| 0:00.0 | Yet another sold-out crowd saw yet another dominant Michigan performance. |
| 0:04.7 | The Wolverines not only beats a top 70 Ken Palm team. |
| 0:10.1 | They throttled McNeese, a ball club that two seasons ago, on this day, came to Ann Arbor |
| 0:16.4 | and knocked off a Michigan team that ended up 8 and 24. |
| 0:20.4 | We all know the renaissance that this program has experienced |
| 0:24.1 | ever since that 8 and 24 season ended. |
| 0:27.5 | And it's at a point now where Michigan will go into the calendar year 2026 |
| 0:31.5 | as a favorite, if not the favorite, to win the national championship. |
| 0:36.5 | But as we'll hear from Kyle Churchill a little bit later on here on Defend the Block, |
| 0:40.6 | he had a great quote about, to him, to me, to many others, |
| 0:45.0 | the most impressive stretch in this game, |
| 0:47.2 | maybe the most impressive stretch for Michigan all season long. |
| 0:50.9 | That first three and a half minutes of the second half. |
| 0:54.4 | Michigan went into halftime, up 31 in their first game out of the holiday break |
| 0:59.7 | against a team that, hey, McNeese deserves a lot of credit for what they've accomplished. |
| 1:04.3 | They won their first ever NCAA tournament game last season, but it's not that |
| 1:07.3 | marquee opponent, not a Big Ten game. |
| 1:09.6 | So there could have been a little bit of a layoff, a relaxation. |
| 1:14.9 | But Kyle Church put it perfectly, you'll hear the full conversation in a bit. |
| 1:18.5 | Anytime we're out there on the court, you can turn the scoreboard off. |
| 1:22.3 | We're out there to play good basketball. |
| 1:24.5 | And that's exactly what Michigan did. |
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