Defend the Block 365 - Minnesota Recap
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🗓️ 25 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
The Wolverines guaranteed at least a share of the Big Ten title thanks to Tuesday night's win over Minnesota. Brian and Terry break down a bit of an ugly game before Brian shares some interviews from the locker room, starting around the 11:30 mark. Dusty May, Roddy Gayle Jr., L.J. Cason, Nimari Burnett, and Justin Joyner stop by, and then Rob goes through the highlight recap of Michigan's 77-67 victory.
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| 0:00.0 | If I told you two years ago when Michigan was sitting at this juncture of the season at 8 and 19 overall and 3 and 13 in Big 10 play, |
| 0:08.7 | that the Wolverines, just two years later, would sit as a winner by 10 or more for a 22nd time in the 25-26 season, |
| 0:19.1 | and they would seal at least a share of the Big Ten championship with |
| 0:23.2 | three games to go. |
| 0:24.8 | You not only would have taken it, you would have been absolutely elated. |
| 0:28.4 | Yet, the context from Michigan's victory over Minnesota on Tuesday night was that Michigan's |
| 0:34.9 | standard is a lot different now, obviously. |
| 0:38.2 | What Michigan has been able to accomplish to turn around over these last 24 months has |
| 0:42.5 | been nothing short of remarkable, but that also means that standards change. |
| 0:47.6 | Expectations increase. |
| 0:49.9 | A, from the Big Ten championship standpoint, Michigan will not feel like the job is finished until they |
| 0:57.2 | ensure that no one else shares it. |
| 0:59.8 | And Michigan can't accomplish that for good on Friday night down in Champaign against |
| 1:04.5 | Illinois. |
| 1:05.5 | The other aspect is Michigan did not play particularly well on Tuesday night. |
| 1:10.0 | Dusty May has talked about the fact that he doesn't want his team necessarily worried |
| 1:13.7 | about side plots or side quests, other things going on. |
| 1:18.4 | He wants his team to play championship basketball. |
| 1:21.4 | They didn't do it enough against one of the best teams in the nation on Saturday against Duke. |
| 1:26.9 | They also did not do it enough against one of the most injury-riddled teams in the nation, |
| 1:32.1 | a Minnesota team that had six healthy scholarship players go for them, |
| 1:36.7 | and all five of their starters played every single second of the second half, |
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