Welcome on into the Wolverine podcast here. Monday, March 24th, Anthony Broom here with Chris Bales and Clayton Safie.

In a packed episode, not live this week, we're coming to you on a recorded edition, but we have a lot to get to.

I don't know if you guys have heard, Michigan basketball still very much alive.

Reports of their demise greatly exaggerated.

They are in the suite 16 of the NCAA tournament.

Heading to Atlanta on Thursday to take on top overall seat, Auburn, fired up for that.

All three of us will be down there.

We'll discuss that.

And the first weekend of the tournament, Sharon Moore spoke to the media today as they move into what I believe is day four of spring practices tomorrow in Ann Arbor. So things are rolling along there. They're about a weekend to all that. So there is a lot to get to this week. But fellas, it's the first time the three of us have been together in the state of Michigan in the last week or so. So welcome back. Yeah, it's been great. Wow. Denver was fantastic. Anthony, you're going to be down there in Atlanta with us. I'm sorry you missed it. Next time there's no excuse, man. You got to get out there with so much. We did some things with our subscribers of the Thirsty Lion. Thanks to the folks at the Thirsty Lion for taking care of us Thirsty Wolverines. That was fun as hell, even getting for taking care of us thirsty Wolverines.

That was fun as hell, even getting a beer spilled on us by Wolverine Luke.

So thanks Luke for that.

They replaced it so Luke didn't have to.

But unbelievable.

And I want to give a shout out to a guy, Kirk Strelow.

On the way home, man, sometimes on these flights, you get to sit next to Michigan fans who get to see the podcast. He's a listener from Kalamazoo. And he was actually from the same town as my college roommate and talking sports with him for two and a half hours on a flight. And Michigan football was fantastic. So it was great meeting you. But overall, man, is this time of year, doesn't get any better than this. And when you've got a guy like Dusty May, who has done what he's done in one year, and you had eight wins last year, fellas, and now you're a game away from the elite eight, I don't think people really appreciate how unbelievable that is. And I do want to issue a personal apology to the people on the board when I said that I didn't think this team had a run in them. I thought they were figured out. They were tired. They were everything else. So I have started the handwritten apologies to like the handful of people who are really, really pissed off about that prediction. And I do want to say that when you are in this business or if you're anybody else, as somebody once said to Doug Karsh on the air, Michigan's play by voice of Michigan football when he was doing his radio show, they said, oh, you were wrong again or something like that. And Doug said, well, get used to it because when you put out a lot of opinions, you're going to be wrong sometime. I could not be happier to be wrong. And your handwritten apologies are on the way. You guys

know who you are. I'm really, really sorry from the bottom of my heart. There is nothing better

than winning a tournament game. There's nothing better than the other team shoots at the end. You get

the rebound. You get fouled. The crowd starts to feel what's coming, the players on the

bench start to feel it, the guys that walk down the floor to the free throw line. That feeling is

something if you could bottle it, you know, and sell it, you'd make a lot of money because there's

just nothing better than everything being on the line, you know, your season could be over. And sometimes you kind of lose sight of that. You know, even talking to Danny Wolf in the off day before the Texas A&M game, he said, yeah, hopefully we can cement ourselves here over the next few weeks. And I'm thinking, I mean, if they don't come out with a win tomorrow, like it, it's just over like that.

And it just didn't feel like this season could end.

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