Defend the Block 372 - Howard Recap
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Wolverines surged past 16th-seeded Howard in the second half for a 101-80 win on Thursday night in the NCAA Tournament. Brian and Terry react to an uneven but successful performance before we share a handful of interviews starting around the 10-minute mark. Hear from Dusty May, Roddy Gayle Jr., Nimari Burnett, Trey McKenney, Will Tschetter, and KT Harrell.
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| 0:00.0 | Going into the game, I kind of expected to come on here on the postgame episode and say, |
| 0:04.9 | all right, free square, knocked off, here we go. |
| 0:08.5 | NCAA tournament really gets started on Saturday. |
| 0:11.4 | But the NCAA tournament really got started from the get-go. |
| 0:14.6 | Howard played their tails off. |
| 0:16.6 | They were shooting lights out at times, and they had a possession in the second half that if they hit a three, they would have taken their only lead of the game. |
| 0:26.0 | From there, Michigan figured things out. |
| 0:28.6 | They played better defensively. |
| 0:30.5 | They went to the two big fellas up front, Mores Johnson Jr. and Adai Mara. |
| 0:35.4 | Rez had 17 after halftime. He had a double double with 10 |
| 0:39.4 | rebounds. Mara with 19.7 rebounds and six assists second on the team to just Elliot |
| 0:45.9 | Kadoes, nine, as he was really strong as a distributor in this ballgame. But Michigan had some |
| 0:53.4 | uneasy times. |
| 0:59.4 | It was not like the Duke Siena game where the Saints led by double figures at halftime. |
| 0:59.9 | They led by as many as 13 and Duke really had to find a way to battle down the stretch. |
| 1:05.7 | But this was a game where it never felt like Michigan played at a level that you would hope for, expect for |
| 1:13.4 | in the NCAA tournament. As I record this, it is a St. Louis drumming of Georgia. |
| 1:21.6 | The Billicans are going to advance. They're going to play coming up Saturday with a ton of |
| 1:27.4 | confidence because of the way |
| 1:28.7 | that they've bounced back from a bit of an inauspicious ending to their regular season. |
| 1:33.8 | But this Michigan team, which has accomplished so much over this season, they're in it now. |
| 1:39.7 | And it probably happened a little bit quicker. When you're in that 116 game, it is easy to think. |
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