Welcome on back to the Wolverine.com podcast. Clayton Safie here with Aunt Wright, analyst here at the

Wolverine and on three high school college basketball. You know him on Twitter at it's Aunt Wright.

He's all over the place, all hours of the day, evidently up last night talking college basketball

with the folks there interacting.

So you know him there.

Also former Michigan basketball player, of course.

So it'll be good to get his insight as we do regularly here on the podcast.

And let's start with the game the other day against Rutgers,

one of four straight home games for Michigan before they go to Ohio State to end the season.

But you're with Phil Martelli as your head coach.

You have no Musa Diabate, no Terrence Williams.

Rutgers is a team that was hot.

I know they had lost to Purdue coming in, but they had four straight wins against quality opponents before that after, you know, basically resurrecting their season.

Much needed win, I think, for Michigan.

Do you feel like something like what happened with Joanne Howard, as weird as it sounds, and not having your head coach could galvanize a team?

And is that maybe part of what you saw on Wednesday night?

I did see a focus.

I saw a focus.

I saw that the guys were playing hard.

But like the first half, I felt like they were just waiting, waiting to get punched in the mouth, kind of.

It felt a lot like the Ohio State game for a bit there.

It did.

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