Michigan with yet another SWEET tournament run. What's working, and can it last?
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4.6 • 855 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Alejandro reflect on their coverage in Indianapolis, as the Michigan men’s basketball team shocked most in advancing to its fifth-straight Sweet Sixteen with come-from-behind upset victories. They also look at the big-picture significance of the weekend and take a quick preview look at Villanova.
They begin by each discussing the most impressive thing they saw from the weekend. They opine on the resiliency, veteran starters stepping up and other encouraging traits shown. They then pivot into a discussion on if making a Sweet Sixteen negates some of the season’s other shortcomings and makes it a successful season, as well as discussing what makes Michigan such a consistent March contender.
In the second half of the show, the two get into a discussion of how close Michigan is to becoming a “blue-blood” program, and what it might take to get to that level. They close with a peek at Villanova, and some of the strengths and weaknesses Michigan has to be wary of in the contest.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:05.8 | I'm your host, Zach Shaw. Alejandro Zuniga here with me talking Michigan basketball after they took down Colorado State and Tennessee and Indianapolis in advance to the Suite 16. |
| 0:16.8 | Big Ten record fifth straight suite 16. They will face Villanova Thursday night at seven, |
| 0:23.6 | either seven 15 or seven 29, sometime in that region. Regardless, it would be down in San Antonio. |
| 0:29.5 | So this episode, we're going to, we're talking quite a bit about what we saw this weekend. |
| 0:33.6 | We'll talk about some of the most impressive things we saw, what it means for Michigan, |
| 0:36.8 | both in the scope of this season and as a program. We'll have a little fun with the ever |
| 0:42.8 | classic Blue Blood debate. Is Michigan, you know, are they getting closer to that point? |
| 0:48.2 | Are they at that point? And then we'll take a look at Villanova and the Sweet 16 matchup. |
| 0:54.0 | So Alejandro, I'll let you start. |
| 0:56.4 | You saw two games down in Indy to, I guess there were some similarities in the game, |
| 1:01.1 | two comeback victories in the second half, two very different teams they were playing. |
| 1:05.1 | But regardless, two comeback victories for Michigan, saw different players step up. |
| 1:10.6 | And then, of course, |
| 1:11.7 | Eli Brooks and Hunter Dickinson stepped up both times. What was, if there was one thing, |
| 1:16.5 | what was the most impressive thing you saw this weekend from the Wolverines? |
| 1:21.3 | For me, the most impressive thing I saw was the resilience from the Michigan team that |
| 1:26.4 | once again was playing short-handed |
| 1:28.9 | in both games in the NCAA tournament was trailing and both times managed to pull it out. |
| 1:36.0 | And now this is something we've seen in three of the last four games, going all the way back |
| 1:39.3 | to the Ohio State game in the regular season finale, where a few minutes before tip off, we all |
| 1:45.3 | learned that Hunter Dickinson isn't going to be able to play. |
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