Michigan Postgame Recap: Michigan Smokes Tennessee to reach Final Four

The Michigan Insider

247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football

Football, Sports

4.6 • 855 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Following Michigan's decisive 95-62 victory over Tennessee to reach the Final Four, The Michigan Insider's Josh Newkirk and Samuel Webb broke down the Wolverines' dominant performance. They highlighted Michigan's strong defense, which limited the Volunteers to 24% shooting in the first half and fueled a 21-0 run. They also discussed Yaxel Lendeborg's impressive play, advocating for his recognition as the NCAA tournament's top player and countering Wally Sczerbiak's claim that Lendeborg is merely a good player on a great team. The conversation then turned to Elliot Cadeau's readiness to compete against elite point guards, as well as notable bench contributions from Trey McKenney and Rody Gayle. The episode continued with a preview of Michigan's Final Four matchup, considered by some to be the game of the year. It concluded with insights into the keys to victory and another conversation about Dusty May's coaching prowess and the importance of retaining him at Michigan.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Michigan Insider Postgame Recap with Sam Webb and Josh Newkirk.
0:09.5	All right.
0:10.6	Well, 95 to 62 is the final.
0:13.1	Michigan is going to Indy, Sam.
0:15.2	Michigan gets it done.
0:16.2	This was,
0:16.4	hey, we always said Michigan need to go to the final four before this to be a successful season, and the ride continues.
0:22.7	It does.
0:23.9	In emphatic fashion, it feels like Michigan, it's not the case, but they've been ascending.
0:31.9	Since the tournament started, we've seen this team settle into that groove that they were in when they were blowing teams out like this, right?
0:40.9	Remember we said they hadn't played well as a truth since the Illinois game?
0:45.1	And now another game where as a unit, they went out and they absolutely dominated.
0:51.8	You know, I'm going to be, I can be honest now when Iowa State lost Josh Jefferson,
0:56.6	when Iowa State got knocked up, they're going to, Michigan would have to play poorly to
1:01.3	lose this game because this team just doesn't score.
1:04.1	They don't square.
1:04.6	I'm talking about Tennessee.
1:05.3	They don't score enough to be able to stay with Michigan.
1:07.8	And when Michigan held them the 24% shooting in the first half, yeah, it was over. That's canceled Christmas at that. Yeah, and you can say that honestly, it seems like the switch turned on for this Michigan team, the second half of the Alabama game, and it just carried over in tonight's, today's game. And you're seeing the team, like you said, that we saw that went out to Vegas and blew out all those teams by 30 or more out there.
1:30.0	They just looked like that dominant team that we've seen. And you're seeing it. We're seeing all those top three teams in the country. They're all going to go to India. They're one of those teams. They have a great chance to cut down the nets here next week. You know, you never want to see. so bear with me when I said you don't want to see a guy get injured yeah all right so I'm not
1:47.2	it wasn't a good You know, you never want to see. So bear with me when I said, you don't want to see a guy get injured.
1:45.5	Yeah.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 247Sports, Michigan Football, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan, Michigan athletics, College Football and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.