Defend the Block 366 - Illinois Recap - B1G Champs!
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🗓️ 28 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Wolverines secured an outright Big Ten Championship in style with an outstanding win at Illinois on Friday night. Brian and Terry react to the Wolverines' title-clinching performance before Brian heads into the locker room around the nine-minute mark, as Dusty May, Aday Mara, Morez Johnson Jr., and Yaxel Lendeborg react to the win. If you missed any of the broadcast, we share a full highlight recap of the 14-point victory!
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| 0:00.0 | Where to start with this team. |
| 0:02.4 | You could start with the performance in the Mores Johnson classic, as Trey McKenney called it. |
| 0:08.3 | Michigan yet again coming through for a teammate facing a former team. |
| 0:13.1 | Roddy Gale times two against Ohio State two weeks ago, |
| 0:17.2 | a daimara getting a victory at home over his former team in UCLA. |
| 0:21.1 | But this one was different. |
| 0:23.1 | This place was hostile. |
| 0:25.0 | They were mad that Mores Johnson Jr. was no longer an Illinois native playing at Illinois. |
| 0:31.0 | But he kept things calm, kept things normal as best as he could. |
| 0:35.4 | He and the Wolverines delivered. |
| 0:37.0 | How about Michigan? Winning over Illinois for the first time in 2,605 days. |
| 0:42.3 | The last time John B-Line coached against Illinois as the head coach of the Wolverines |
| 0:47.0 | was Michigan's last victory over the Illini, also here in Champaign back in January of 2019. |
| 0:54.7 | How about this stat for Michigan? |
| 0:57.2 | No team in the Big Ten, Michigan or otherwise, had won at Mackey, at Breslin, |
| 1:02.2 | and here at the State Farm Center in a single season since Michigan in 2014 in route |
| 1:07.9 | to a 15-3 by three games, Big 10 championship. |
| 1:12.6 | Wolverines do that again, and they do it all by double figures, |
| 1:16.6 | winning at Breslin by 12, at Mackey, by 11, and this, the crowning achievement, |
| 1:23.6 | a 14-point victory over the Illinois fighting Aligni. But ultimately, you could bear all of that out. |
| 1:30.7 | You could talk about the fact that Michigan had its big three all go off. 19 points for Mara and Johnson, 16 points for Lendabor. |
| 1:38.5 | You could talk about the fact that at a point in the second half, Michigan's two scoreless players, |
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