Wolverine247 — Recapping Michigan at the Big Ten Tournament, NCAA Tournament preview
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Zach Shaw and Alejandro Zuniga recap the Michigan men’s basketball team’s 2-1 showing in the Big Ten Tournament, and look ahead to the Wolverines’ draw in the NCAA Tournament.
They open by looking at what they learned about Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament in Chicago. They discuss the Wolverines’ offensive struggles, particularly since LJ Cason went down with a torn ACL, as well as Michigan’s ability to win two games with its defense in the tournament. They also look at what went wrong against Purdue in the championship game, and whether that is cause for concern in the NCAA Tournament.
In the second half of the episode, they look at the Wolverines’ NCAA Tournament draw. They discuss the Midwest Regional, the potential opening-weekend matchups in Buffalo, and whether or not they think Michigan will make the Final Four.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, are all the traitors present? |
| 0:02.5 | Let's get started, shall we? From rags to riches. I'm so sick of this. Working like a dog and being treated worse. Yorkshire to New York. Poor climbers, you and me. A life dedicated to revenge. Let's make this an occasion to remember. A woman of substance on Channel 4, stream now. Hello, everybody. |
| 0:24.9 | Welcome to the Wolverine 24-7 podcast, your audio source for all things, Michigan football, |
| 0:26.2 | basketball, and recruiting. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm your host Zach Shaw. |
| 0:29.4 | Alejandro Zaniga is here with me. |
| 0:31.1 | We're going to talk Michigan basketball. |
| 0:36.9 | We both spent the weekend in Chicago at the Big Ten tournament where Michigan got second. |
| 0:43.8 | And then, of course, we were there when they got selected to go to Buffalo as the one seed in the NCAA tournament, |
| 0:47.4 | where they'll take on the winner of Howard and UMBC. |
| 0:53.8 | And then if they win that one-verse-16 matchup, they will take on the winner of Georgia versus St. Louis. This will be just because |
| 0:55.4 | we don't know exactly who they're going to play for either of these games. This will be a little |
| 0:59.2 | bit more about Michigan. If you missed it, we kind of went in-depth last week on Michigan's regular |
| 1:04.7 | season. And then in that, we also looked at the biggest case for and against Michigan's ability |
| 1:10.7 | to make a run in the postseason. |
| 1:12.9 | So a lot of that stuff holds up. |
| 1:14.9 | But Alejandro, I think, you know, there's a few different takeaways from the Big Ten tournament. |
| 1:19.7 | What's jumping out the most to you about this weekend that maybe changed your perception of Michigan or solidified your perception of something. What's something |
| 1:28.6 | from our few days in Chicago, Michigan playing three games, beating Ohio State and Wisconsin |
| 1:34.1 | close and then losing to Purdue. What's something that's really sticking out to you maybe |
| 1:38.7 | two days later about that weekend? For me, it's really that Michigan still hasn't really |
| 1:43.8 | figured out what it is without LJ. Kaysen. At this point, it's really that Michigan still hasn't really figured out what it is |
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