And welcome back to the Wolverine Live. I got a special treat for you tonight. Tom Crawford's

going to be with us in a few minutes. So we're going three levels tonight. But with us right now

is my personal friend, the senior editor at the wolverine.com, and the man with more inside information on Michigan athletics than anyone in existence that would be one, Chris Ballas.

Chris, welcome to the broadcast.

Hey, Johnny.

It's good to do this again, man.

It's been too long.

It has been too long, and I've been looking forward to it. Maybe it would, I would look forward to it. The only way at a higher level as if Michigan was getting ready to play in the NCAA tournament.

But as we know, that's not the case. I know that you were

courtside as Michigan was in the NIT last night. Talk a little bit about your reactions to

what took place in Chrysler against Toledo, not just about what happened on the floor, although that's a significant

part of it, but also just kind of the setting, what your reaction was to sitting there in a,

on IT when it very well could have been and probably should have been the NCAAs.

It kind of felt like old times, John, and what I wrote in my column was the only thing

missing was, I know, the only thing missing was Tommy Amaker.

And I remember you and I sitting there for a game against Hawaii in the early 2000s, and

it was like 75 degrees outside, and they had to open all the doors to Chrysler

to get a breeze going through there because it was so hot. And this was before they did all the

renovations and all that. I'm like, where would you rather be, John? And you're like, well,

probably Hawaii. You know, maybe this could have been a road game. But it was, it was kind of weird.

But it was nice to be on the floor again.

And it reminded me of when Grandma Trailer accosted you after a Robert Trailer bucket,

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