Michigan basketball dominates Players Era Festival, makes claim as nation's best team

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4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Zach Shaw and Steve Lorenz reunite to break down the Michigan men's basketball team's dominant performance in the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.

They look at the sheer dominance of the Wolverines, as they knocked off San Diego State, No. 21 Auburn and No. 12 Gonzaga by a combined 110 points. They try to add context to Michigan's level of play, and assess the legitimacy to the Wolverines' claim as the nation's best team.

Along the way, they also look at how Michigan got to be as good as it has looked, players that have particularly impressed along the way, notable stats, strengths and potential weaknesses, and where the Wolverines go from here.

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1:11.0	Steve Lorenz, yes, you heard that right.
1:12.8	Steve Lorenz is here with me, and this is a basketball podcast.
1:17.0	Steve and I were talking, we said if Michigan won it's three games by exactly 110 points
1:21.7	in Las Vegas and took home a player's era championship.
1:26.1	That was the deal.
1:27.4	Yep, we said 110 exactly uh beating san diego
1:31.1	state auburn and gonzaga by 30 40 30 and then 40 points just uh extremely dominant
1:41.3	performance in in every way, shape, and form.
1:45.1	I just saw ESPN.
1:47.1	I knew someone was going to get the stat.
1:48.7	ESPN got there first.
1:50.3	Michigan is the first team in the AP poll era, so since 1948, to beat two ranked teams
1:58.2	by 30 plus points in a row.
2:00.6	They'd beat Auburn by 30. They'd be Auburn by 30.
2:02.4	They'd be Gonzaga by 40.
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