Welcome back to the Wolverine.com podcast video edition. I'm John Borden.

And we have the man of the hour here who has most graciously made some time for us in a very busy season for him.

He's got a date down in San Antonio with the Michigan basketball team, play-by-playman.

Brian Bush, Brian, great to have you with us, and thanks for being on.

You got it, John.

Happy to be here.

Well, sweet 16 time.

There are 16 teams left in college basketball.

Two of them happen to be Big Ten teams.

One of them happens to be a team that a lot of people were saying didn't belong in this tournament because of some of the travails and the

growing that it did throughout the season. And we all know who that is. Give us your lay of the land

going into the Sweet 16. Well, from a Michigan standpoint, you know, they certainly figured out the right time to string together a couple of wins.

For them to go ping pong and back and forth for more than a month on what we saw in Indianapolis the first trip against Indiana. I mean, listen, we all knew that

what they unearthed this past weekend was feasible. It was in the arsenal. For them to

unleash it on Colorado State and Tennessee, two really good teams, two clubs that I think had

they emerged from this pod, they would have been threats

in San Antonio. It speaks to what this team can do. And for me, you know, the two guys who

were the stars of the show, really in both games, they're the reason why Michigan's here.

Hunter Dickinson and Eli Brooks were fantastic. I think that was, you know, when you look back from Eli Brooks's standpoint, I'm sure there have been games where he maybe has defended better. I'm not an expert on that. But from an offensive side, he's never had a better game. You think back to last year in the round of 32 against LSU, he had a game. But this eclipsed it against one of the

best defenses in college basketball. You know, he just has a will to keep this thing going.

And considering what he had to do, the extra load that he had to shoulder, you can't help,

but feel so good for him. The whole team, but Eli in particular, what he has meant to this club.

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