It's the Mike Francesa podcast on the Bet Rivers Network.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome to the Mike Francesa podcast, part of the Bet Rivers Network.

We come to you after a championship game on Monday night, won by Michigan 69, 63.

But let's be honest, one of the worst championship games that I have ever encountered, just a dreadful game.

Now, let me give credit in a couple of places and then we'll get to other things.

Give you kind of credit for getting the game to be the kind of game they wanted it to be.

They controlled the pace of the game.

They never let Michigan get out and run.

They kept the game low scoring.

It would have been even lower scoring if they had not let Michigan parade to the foul line.

And Michigan did a good job.

If they, except for Gail clang and two free throws, which if you bet Michigan,

you're going to hate forever because if he made one of the one or either, he made either

one of those free throws and they hadn't missed free throws all night, they would have covered

the points for it.

They didn't, I mean, depending where you were, if it was six and a half, it was seven, it would have covered the points for it. They didn't.

I mean, depending where you were, if it was six and a half, it was seven and a half, it was seven and a half,

went down to six and a half in some places. They wound up winning by six. So that his missing a

free throw there. But here's the game. I thought you can't play it hard. I thought they gave it everything they had.

They clearly had a lot of foul trouble.

Their guards in foul trouble a lot.

They had trouble with Michigan size.

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