Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things Michigan football, basketball, and recruiting.

Steve Lorenz is on the phone lines with me.

I'm Zach Shaw.

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slash Michigan. It's kind of a, I think the next two weeks are going to be very fun for Michigan,

football, and basketball fans. We'll obviously talk about, we took some listener questions,

and we'll talk some football at the back

half of the show. But basketball, and here's the thing, basketball entered the season

top 25. They've raised two banners a week ago. They went to the final four in April. They won the

Big Ten tournament, second year in a row in March. So this isn't like a huge surprise, but I will say this.

For those that did not know, Michigan beat number eight Villanova in Philly at, you know,

the Finneran Pavilion by 27 points, 73 to 46.

And some people are like, oh, you know, about time basketball gets their due, they've always gotten their due.

And our traffic numbers would suggest that Michigan basketball is something that people have been paying attention to for a while.

I haven't heard John Beeline hot seat stuff in over two years.

So I think that component of it's cooled off.

But last night was a little different.

I mean, one, it was a good win over a good team.

But two, it was on the road.

And I was, you know, talking to a former basketball player earlier today and kind of mentioning,

it seems like every year, Be-Line has a couple of

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