Michigan's biggest question mark and key player in the Big Ten Tournament

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we discuss where things stand with the No. 4 Michigan men’s basketball team, and preview how the Wolverines will look in the Big Ten Tournament.

To open, we look at Michigan’s biggest question mark. We discuss the Wolverines’ 1-2 finish to the season, Michigan’s lack of depth, the Wolverines’ ability to play without a potential starter, in a tightly officiated game, Hunter Dickinson’s and Isaiah Livers’ struggles, the team’s potential complacency and other potential pitfall areas.

We then zero in on players on the spot, including Dickinson and Livers, Mike Smith and some bench players who may have to step up.

In the second half of the podcast, we look at the bracket, discussing potential matchup issues for Michigan and making our final predictions for the weekend.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast or audio source for all-think Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting honor.
0:06.4	host, Josh, Steve Lorenz, here with me. Read all of our stories over to Michiganinsider.com. Michigan.24-7 sports.com. Got lots of big 10 tournament preview content. There's some football stuff going on as well as they are, I think, entering technically the second half of spring
0:22.4	practices, weird as that sounds to say in the second week of March, but they're trying to get
0:28.4	in early this year. But regardless, on my end, lots of basketball stuff have a story on the
0:34.6	site looking at the biggest question marks.
0:40.0	Michigan must address in the Big Ten tournament.
0:44.1	Look at Eli Brooks, a story on the fans.
0:49.4	Michigan fans will be able to see Michigan in person for the first time all season.
0:57.4	And then some other stuff looking at Michigan and Maryland in the quarterfinals on Friday.
1:05.5	But this podcast maybe it's a bit of a preview slash slight refresher on where things are at with Michigan, just kind of resetting everything ahead of the post season.
1:11.6	So Steve, we're just going to answer four quick ones.
1:14.7	We're going to look at the biggest question.
1:17.0	Michigan must answer this weekend, either for to do well in the Bigton tournament or
1:21.2	for the big picture in general.
1:24.1	A player on the spot, looking at a couple storylines there a team that is not an obvious team
1:30.7	that might be able to give the Wolverines a scare or maybe even upset Michigan in the
1:37.1	big 10 tournament and then obviously our predictions for the weekend I will be down there in
1:41.8	Indianapolis going to be kind of an interesting event there will be down there in Indianapolis.
1:48.1	It's going to be kind of an interesting event. There will be fans, but obviously a lot will be different. But Steve, let's start looking at the, I guess, where Michigan is at.
1:55.9	So they started out 18 and 1. Really, I mean, they were unquestionably one of the top two or three teams in the country.
2:03.2	And a lot of people were arguing they should be number one.
2:05.5	I know a lot of Michigan fans were vouching for that.
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