Straight to the people. Get some football in the mix as we go along.

I got a Tigers thing for you, too. Just some interesting news and notes from Jeff Passon.

But we go to Tom to lead off today. Tommy, what's going on, pal? How are you?

Hey, happy Friday, gentlemen. Same to you. Thanks. I'm a Michigan fan, but I can give respect where respect is due. I definitely think that

they have better than a good opportunity to win the title. I'm going to say not great, but high

above chance to win. And a couple reasons I say that because Rico did touch on this. You know,

they can play either way.

They can play a defensive game.

They can run up and down the court.

Now, David mentioned like Auburn and so forth.

Well, you know, they run up and down the court.

Well, great.

So can state.

There's a common denominator, I think, between, you know, Auburn, Duke, a few other teams that people are really talking about is none of those

coaches have proven anything. In fact, most of them have been guilty of dirtying the diaper

up come tournament time. And I'm going to take Izzo and people can say, oh, you know, he's had some failures in the pad.

I'm still going to take Izzo come tournament time to come down to the last two minutes

versus a Bruce Pearl or a Calvin Samson.

That's my biggest thing.

And I think that's what actually gives them the edge.

And let's be honest with Duke, Cooper Flagg's not going to ruin his opportunity to become the first

overall pick by coming back and trying to play in the tournament.

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