Defend the Block 358 - Michigan State Recap
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🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
For the first time since 2018, Michigan earned a win at Michigan State! Brian and Terry react to the Wolverines' impressive 83-71 rivalry victory. Then, Brian heads into the Michigan locker room around the 15-minute to catch up with Dusty May, Trey McKenney, Yaxel Lendeborg, Nimari Burnett, and Will Tschetter. Stay to the end for a full highlight recap of an awesome win for the Maize and Blue!
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| 0:00.0 | On Thursday in a press conference, assistant coach Mike Boynton Jr. surmised that Jason Richardson, |
| 0:05.3 | not Jace, his son, who played at Michigan State last season, but Jason, who starred in East |
| 0:10.6 | Lansing for a pair of seasons from 1999 to 2001, could probably run a Michigan State practice |
| 0:18.1 | because the program has stayed true to its main principles for decades. |
| 0:23.0 | Those principles proved to be too much for Michigan in Dusty May's first two cracks at the |
| 0:27.2 | Spartans last season. Michigan State was better last year. They were deeper. They were more talented. |
| 0:33.4 | Now, those Michigan losses and other experiences in Big Ten play helped to illuminate the necessary path to a better year two. |
| 0:41.4 | My broadcast partner, the national champion Terry Mills mentioned during Friday's broadcast that he felt like in particular. |
| 0:48.0 | The experiences against Michigan State and Illinois helped motivate and push Dusty and his staff to build this roster the way that |
| 0:56.9 | they did. On Friday for 40 minutes of game action and for an hour leading up to and for an |
| 1:03.1 | hour after the game, Michigan confidently handled and overtook those principles. I purposely |
| 1:09.8 | avoid social media or any of the great reporting by |
| 1:13.1 | the Michigan beat until after I finish this podcast after every game. And I already know |
| 1:19.0 | without even having to look that the images from Dusty's little pit stop seated over near the |
| 1:23.9 | is zone are going viral. After the game, you better believe there were smiles and joy, |
| 1:29.1 | appreciation, satisfaction, but this was not an overwhelming outpouring of emotion, like we saw |
| 1:35.8 | in Indianapolis last March, or even after the Texas A&M Sweet 16 clinching win a week later in Denver. |
| 1:42.8 | This team came to East Lansing expecting to win. |
| 1:47.3 | And that expectation was earned for months and months roster building, summer work, in-season |
| 1:54.6 | grinding. But there was a belief that they had the answers and it was a matter of going out |
| 1:59.7 | and proving it. |
| 2:08.4 | And it's staggering to see how Michigan held its own or even did better than what they could have done or what many people thought they would have done against Michigan State in areas |
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