Michigan is your national champion of college basketball in the year of our Lord, 2026.

And before we even get into the game, I would like to institute a rule on Crane and Cone.

If your team wins the Natty, you started off. So David Cohn, former Michigan quarterback,

you just started off from here, dog.

Congrats to you guys. It was a hell of a game. But take it from here just on the lead.

Man, man, I'm still, I just, I was an emotional wreck, guys. That was exhilarating.

Man, this championship was for John beline this championship was for trey burke for tim hardaway junior for manny harris for the fab five for zavier simpson for the

wagner brothers for jordan pool is Livers, everyone associated with Michigan basketball,

who has helped establish Michigan as a really solid great basketball school,

even though people think of Michigan as a football school.

And you guys know that's not something that's easy to do.

It's just like trying to establish yourself as a

really good football program when you're considered a quote-unquote basketball school.

It's not something that's easy to do. I was just saying, I think Dusty, I think we have to

talk about Dusty May, like we've talked about Kirk Signetti. And we've gone on and on about

what an incredible job Kurt Signetti has done. Now, granted, that was the losingest football program in the country. And he just went 16 and 0. And I'm not trying to take anything away from him. On the contrary, I mean, we've, we've highlighted what he's done. Dusty May in year two. And look, you got to give Ward Manuel a lot of credit to the athletic director. It's not easy to move on when the head coach of your team is Joanne Howard, who was a Fab Five member. At the same time, it wasn't working. You guys know you've lived it. You've experienced it with Auburn basketball and with Auburn football. And it's not working. You have to make the tough calls, even though someone may have been a great player for you. Dusty May, year two. And it was from wire to wire, guys. It's not like they just lucked up and won the tournament, right? This was the most dominant team during the regular season. And now, and it's one thing to be that, it's another thing to win the sixth straight that you need to, to be the national champions in this tournament and man what a run

and and hey and all credit to you con that team will not go away dude i look all that team will not go

away i'll tell you right now the respect level and look i felt that way about dan hurley coming

into the game uh and and what he's done at at yukon and just the style that they play you know they say the

great teams you know take on the identity of their head coach and i think outside of you know

not punching an official they've really done that uh as players so you con would not go away

i tell you what he may have shot it 16 times only hit like six of them but that that white cat Mullins from Yukon, he could play for me any day of the week, buddy. Fearless. That dude can, I just love the way he played freshman. Him and McKinney. Yeah, McKinney had some big plays. Who made the two free throws when they needed. He hit that three when y'all needed it. That was huge. That was huge. But to me, I think the biggest compliment that I can give a coach or a program, especially

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