And another edition of the Michigan Basketball Insider podcast with Tim McCormick.

I'm your host Sam Webb and we're rolling now.

You know, got a growing following for this basketball podcast and it helps Tim that this Michigan

basketball team is off to a terrific start, the start of the Joanne Howard era, and the start of this podcast,

man, it couldn't have started at a better time for us.

We did pick a good year, didn't we?

I mean, if the team was won at eight, nobody's going to be listening to our podcast.

Right.

But I was so encouraged by what I saw in the last week.

Not only the Iowa game, but the Louisville game.

The growth was something to really enjoy. And thinking about this, Michigan scored 43 points in the game against Louisville. They scored 50 in the first half, 53 in the second half against Iowa. So that to me shows that Michigan is growing.

Yeah, you know, I felt like the Louisville loss, and we got into this, it was a scheduling loss.

I mean, you know, you go down, you got the battle for Atlantis, those three games, back to back to back, you know, flight short turnaround going into the number one team in the country,

who's had, who's probably been focusing on you for weeks because they haven't played anything

close to what Michigan had played.

So it all adds up to that being an L, but bouncing back from that,

not that, you know, there would be a team that would be terribly down based on that game,

but it was their first adversity, Tim, so I'm curious as a player and as a coach when you evaluate how they responded.

What do you think?

Well, the term is bounce back ability. And that's what basketball is about.

This year, five, six, seven, eight times Michigan may not have their best game.

And some of those they're going to need to find a way to scrap and win without the A game.

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