Let's talk Wolverine's Hoops. Welcome to Inside Michigan Basketball. Over the next hour, we'll take you inside both the men's and women's basketball programs. Now here are your hosts, Brian Bush and Terry Mills. Welcome into another edition of Inside Michigan Basketball. And boy, what a run. These two programs have been on all season

long with the men locking down a championship on Friday at Illinois. And the women setting themselves

up for a chance to do what the men did last year from the same spot in the same arena from a

three seed after one of the best seasons in the Big Ten in program history to maybe a Big Ten

Tournament Championship. We've got the national champ Terry Mills here. Let's start with that

men's victory at Illinois, Michigan becoming the first team since the 2014 Wolverines to win

at Breslin, at Mackie, and then at State Farm Center in Champaign. And not just to do it, but to do them all by double digits.

And shoot, the Illinois one might have been the most comprehensive of the three.

Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, leading into that game,

there was a lot of naysairs basically saying in so many words

that Michigan can afford to lose this game and then worry about trying to win one

of those other games. That's something about much confidence they gave Illinois that winning that

ball game. But me as a player, I'm saying, hey, you be greedy and you get it over with right now.

You know, you don't let that hang in the balance. So good to see the Wolverines going there and win in that

hostile environment. Let's face it, there is something to be said for what Michigan has a chance

to do this week. No question, the Sunday game against Michigan State, that always has some

extra added juice to it. But if Michigan takes care of business and wins both, and Nebraska

loses either at UCLA on Tuesday

night or home against Iowa on Sunday, Michigan will win the Big 10 by four games. That is

unheard of back to when there were around 10 teams in this league. Now 18 with a West Coast

trip in there as well. That is an opportunity worth playing. That Thursday game, it's meaningful, even if it doesn't change where Michigan will finish the standings. Because you're setting yourself up for a place in history right now. I mean, that's what you have to have at stake. This is not a game where you just want to take off and say, hey, we're going to experiment, we're

going to do this and that. I think these players are hungry. You want to be playing your best

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