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Dusty May & Michigan Postgame Press Conference - Final Four | March Madness 2026 · Bleacher Report

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Speaker 1: Coach of you begin with a couple thoughts, then we'll
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Speaker 1: take some questions.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this game was very indicative of how this group
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Speaker 2: is played throughout the season. Unselfish basketball, a connected group
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Speaker 2: who defends, gets out in transition and then shares the basketball.
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Speaker 2: I thought our sister turnover ratio. I thought our job
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Speaker 2: on the glass, especially before the game was in doubt,
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Speaker 2: was as impressive as anything. And the one thing we
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Speaker 2: thought really jumped out was our ability to get fifty
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Speaker 2: to fifty basketballs and be quicker to the ball than
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Speaker 2: Arizona tonight.
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Speaker 3: But just very proud of our effort. What a great group.
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Speaker 4: We'll take questions for the student athletes. First, let's start
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Speaker 4: right in the center. Question for Elliott or a die
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Speaker 4: or Trey?
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Speaker 5: Lindsay Schanel the athletic For Elliott and Trey, I think
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Speaker 5: everyone was surprised when Yaxhall came back in the second half.
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Speaker 5: He looked like he was in some obvious pain, but
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Speaker 5: he seemed determined to play. What did he say to
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Speaker 5: you guys at halftime and what do you think about
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Speaker 5: his gutsy performance?
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Speaker 1: Well, ask Elliot to take that one first, Then Trey.
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Speaker 6: We didn't we didn't really get a lot of time
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Speaker 6: to talk to him because, like we were on the
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Speaker 6: court in a halftime, he's getting treatment. But we know
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Speaker 6: what type of guy Yaksual is, Like, if he could play,
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Speaker 6: he's gonna play. So we asked him, like, are you good.
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Speaker 6: He said yeah, So we expect him to be on
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Speaker 6: the court and we told him when we got He
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Speaker 6: told us when he got on the court that he's
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Speaker 6: gonna give it his all.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, traight.
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Speaker 7: Next, Yeah, I think it just shows you know, the
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Speaker 7: guy who Yaxual is. I mean, he just wants to
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Speaker 7: put it all on the floor for Michigan and he
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Speaker 7: wants to give the fans what they came here for.
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Speaker 7: So you know, I'm just really grateful to have him
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Speaker 7: as a teammate. And you know, he's he's one of
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Speaker 7: the best players in the country and he really showed
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Speaker 7: that tonight. But he's he's selfless as well, So I'm
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Speaker 7: just really grateful to be around him.
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Speaker 1: Next question for the Michigan players is going to come
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Speaker 1: from Robert left side center.
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Speaker 8: Roder O'Connell Wall Street Journal. This is for Elliott and Andy,
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Speaker 8: all the transfers brought into Michigan. This here you guys
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Speaker 8: have obviously been playing great reach the championship game. What
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Speaker 8: do you see from coach May and the coaching staff
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Speaker 8: that's like, you know, you guys mold such a cohesive
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Speaker 8: identity in such a short time.
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Speaker 6: Elliott, I just think they did a really good job
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Speaker 6: on like putting five or four transfers or five players
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Speaker 6: on the court at all times that are really good
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Speaker 6: at passing the ball.
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Speaker 3: And I think they knew that when they were recruiting
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Speaker 3: all of us.
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Speaker 6: So just having five people on the court that are
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Speaker 6: all playmakers just and also great scores just helps us
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Speaker 6: like have connectivity on the court for sure.
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Speaker 1: Did you want to diet to take that else?
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Speaker 9: I ever?
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Speaker 1: Or you're good? Okay?
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Speaker 10: Me?
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Speaker 11: Oh uh Now I think same. They think they did
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Speaker 11: a great job putting like, as you said, players that
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Speaker 11: they they were not selfies.
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Speaker 12: Uh.
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Speaker 11: And I think now in the era that we are
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Speaker 11: with the transfer portal, we just gotta uh learn and
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Speaker 11: adapt as soon as possible to what we have and
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Speaker 11: the different teams that we that we play. So I
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Speaker 11: think just, uh, you just gotta change and we got
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Speaker 11: to learn every day, you know, so we can play together.
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Speaker 1: Second row center.
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Speaker 10: Robbie Lestella bracketued dot Org. My questions for Trey, You
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Speaker 10: guys came out of the gates with a sense of
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Speaker 10: physicality and energy that Arizona was trying to catch up to.
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Speaker 10: It was that kind of the goal coming into this one.
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Speaker 10: And what do you guys kind of feel like helped
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Speaker 10: you set the tone early?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean during the season we have had we
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Speaker 7: have had like some type of mental lapses during big games,
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Speaker 7: but I think we came out and we really knew
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Speaker 7: how high the stakes were and we just really wanted
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Speaker 7: to leave it all on the floor. I mean, we
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Speaker 7: had nothing, nothing left really, I mean, we only have
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Speaker 7: a couple of days left with you know, these bonds
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Speaker 7: that we've made throughout the summer. So I think it's
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Speaker 7: just it just really shows a lot about our team
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Speaker 7: to be able to flip that switch and you know,
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Speaker 7: just push for you know more in the second half.
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Speaker 1: And the center of their own third row.
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Speaker 13: This question is for Elliott. You guys have had a
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Speaker 13: lot of experience in blowouts. You got to blow out
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Speaker 13: of the final four. Did having all that experience help
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Speaker 13: you guys know how to navigate it? And also, separately,
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Speaker 13: do you like that coach may keeps the starters in
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Speaker 13: late in these kind of games and doesn't like go
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Speaker 13: all bench unit really early. You know, how do you
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Speaker 13: guys process that with all the experience you've had in
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Speaker 13: these big wins.
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Speaker 1: And that was for Elliott Good Elliott.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we felt like we had a lot of games
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Speaker 6: like this and we learned from them. Some games the
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Speaker 6: teams actually came back, so we stressed in the in
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Speaker 6: the huddle, like keep our foot on the gas because
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Speaker 6: you know, as March as April, so anything could happen,
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Speaker 6: like they could come back from a thirty point deficit.
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Speaker 1: And we'll go up front to the right. This is
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Speaker 1: the red microphone Mitch.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, this is for Elliott. Right from the beginning, you
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Speaker 14: seem to come out and have great control of the
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Speaker 14: game and be very calm at the same time. How
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Speaker 14: were you able to do that in such a big
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Speaker 14: stage And did you feel that you had to do
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Speaker 14: even more of that once Sacull got the two fouls
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Speaker 14: and then went out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
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Speaker 6: I think that comes from just like the coaching, like
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Speaker 6: they have so much confidence in me. You know, I
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Speaker 6: missed a lot of shots today, I had a lot
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Speaker 6: of turnovers today, but I didn't hear one thing about
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Speaker 6: that from the coaching staff, And it just helps me
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Speaker 6: stay calm. Like if I turn the ball over and
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Speaker 6: I look over at coach, they're calm, So that just
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Speaker 6: helps me stay calm as well. And definitely I try
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Speaker 6: to be more aggressive when Yax came out.
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Speaker 1: For sure upfront in the center, all.
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Speaker 15: Right, Jake Singer with Mazon bruises for Elliott and Trey,
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Speaker 15: you guys in the first half from three as a
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Speaker 15: team shot five for sixteen. In the first eight minutes
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Speaker 15: of the second half, you guys combined six for eight,
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Speaker 15: and you guys each had two in that time span.
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Speaker 15: He just talk about that particular run and really getting
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Speaker 15: it going from beyond the arc when Arizona was not
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Speaker 15: getting their shots to fall. You guys, just as a
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Speaker 15: team cohesively, really got to go.
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Speaker 1: In Elliott first, then Trey. Please.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it kind of takes a little time
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Speaker 6: to get used to shooting at game speed in this
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Speaker 6: arena because we never played here before. But and also
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Speaker 6: me and Trey talked at halftime and we told each
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Speaker 6: other that we had to hit shots this half, and
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Speaker 6: we came out at each other's back.
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Speaker 7: With that right, yeah, I would just saying it's really
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Speaker 7: a testament to the work we put and I mean
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Speaker 7: when you when you come in before practice. I mean,
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Speaker 7: everybody's getting their own individual working and we all work
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Speaker 7: on our games. So I mean when we're in the
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Speaker 7: spotlight like this, we all have the convenants that we
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Speaker 7: can you know, run off you know, two threes in
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Speaker 7: a row or whatever that may be in the in
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Speaker 7: the situation.
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Speaker 11: Sorry, I was just saying, like the process of being
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Speaker 11: here in this year, like the I'm so grateful and
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Speaker 11: happy that I can. I am able to play with
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Speaker 11: this group. Uh, I'm able to to fight for the
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Speaker 11: for the national title. But it was a process just
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Speaker 11: coming from maybe two years that I didn't have the
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Speaker 11: opportunity to to show what I was able to do
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Speaker 11: and now just to to be in this position. But
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Speaker 11: it was long, long year, tough year. Uh, but it
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Speaker 11: was uh, it was fine too. So I'm just we're
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Speaker 11: just having fun. We know it's just one more Uh,
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Speaker 11: so we're gonna we're gonna try too good.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Final questions for the student athletes in the center.
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Speaker 18: Brian Gillis sp nation this is for Elliott, And then
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Speaker 18: if either other player wants to jump in, what does
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Speaker 18: it mean to have a guy like Roddy whose game
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Speaker 18: doesn't always jump off the stat sheet that seems to
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Speaker 18: be such a steadying influence on both ends of the
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Speaker 18: ball or on both ends of the floor.
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Speaker 4: Rather, we're gonna take it for Elliott, and then the
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Speaker 4: student athletes go to the locker room.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it means everything. We had a lot of new
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Speaker 6: guys coming here and he was one of the returners,
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Speaker 6: and as soon as we got here, he showed us
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Speaker 6: the culture of Michigan.
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Speaker 3: Like he said, he set the tone for all of us.
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Speaker 3: He taught us so much.
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Speaker 6: And just having a guy we can always rely on
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Speaker 6: like that, Like, no matter if he's hidden shots or
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Speaker 6: not hitting shots, we can always allow him to do
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Speaker 6: what he does. So it's always great to have a
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Speaker 6: player like that on the team. For sure.
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Speaker 4: Well to thank and congratulate Trey, a guy and Elliott.
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Speaker 4: They're gonna head back to the Michigan locker room. Should
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Speaker 4: be open till about twelve to twenty five. We're in
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Speaker 4: a startuprints. Did you have one for Coach May? We'll
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Speaker 4: let the student athletes clear the days and then we'll
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Speaker 4: get one. Gentlemen to your right first, please thank you.
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Speaker 3: See if I.
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Speaker 19: Could get two questions, if you could address what a
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Speaker 19: Die did for you today? Yeah, and also when you
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Speaker 19: actual showed the perseverance to get back in the game
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Speaker 19: in the second half and he hit those two threes,
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Speaker 19: what did that mean to you and the team?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think the guys know that Yax is about
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Speaker 2: winning and from day one, he's always just been one
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Speaker 2: of the guys. And when you have a first team
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Speaker 2: All American potential Player of the Year that just wants
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Speaker 2: to be one of one of the dudes, it helps
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Speaker 2: everyone else fall in line and just accept the role.
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Speaker 2: And our glue guys were awesome tonight. The second question
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Speaker 2: was what Die was sensational? I mean he was at
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Speaker 2: the rim catching lobbs, who's a foce down low? He
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Speaker 2: was a pressure release top I mean, he's just such
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Speaker 2: a smart basketball player, and you know, obviously his rem protection.
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Speaker 3: He did a great job on Pete.
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Speaker 2: He did a great job of forcing a lot of
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Speaker 2: those misses around the basket because of his aggression.
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Speaker 1: Same area of the room.
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Speaker 20: Tom Crawford press pass, Fox forty seven, Lansing Dusty at halftime,
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Speaker 20: Elliot's two of fourteen and he ends up with a
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Speaker 20: double double. But the halftime, even though in two fourteen
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Speaker 20: the TBS staff at halftime broadcast you said I called
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Speaker 20: him by far the best player on the court. When
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Speaker 20: did this additional gear kick in for him? As a
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Speaker 20: distributor and as leader of this team.
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Speaker 3: As a distributor, he's always been that.
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Speaker 2: As far as his leaderships, he's been really consistent with
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Speaker 2: that as well. He leads more with his energy and effort,
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Speaker 2: and I thought he took what the game gave him
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Speaker 2: in the first half of you you mentioned his attempts.
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Speaker 2: A couple of those were passes off the backboard. Is
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Speaker 2: so good in his drops. We didn't think we'd build
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Speaker 2: a throw traditional lobs, So we've spent about five to
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Speaker 2: ten minutes the last three days working on the lob
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Speaker 2: off the backboard, so he didn't really have that many attempts,
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Speaker 2: and then we told him if he got caught in
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Speaker 2: between he and they forced him to shoot those We
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Speaker 2: don't shoot a lot of floaters a midties, but if
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Speaker 2: he does have to shoot them, just make sure if
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Speaker 2: you missilem me miss him along because he's going to
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Speaker 2: pull the big over and it's going to give a
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Speaker 2: die and Res and those guys an opportunity to rebound
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Speaker 2: on the back side. So and then obviously he got
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Speaker 2: it going in the second half and made several big
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Speaker 2: big shots and found.
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Speaker 1: His rhythm staying up front on the right side.
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Speaker 21: John Bardon the Wolverine Dusty, you had yaks for five
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Speaker 21: and a half minutes in the first half and a
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Speaker 21: die playing with two fouls, and yet you pull away
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Speaker 21: somewhat at the half. Talk about how crucial that stretch
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Speaker 21: was and how you were able to pull that off.
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Speaker 2: Well, obviously, with Res had two fouls, a die had
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Speaker 2: two fouls, YACs I think had two fouls and a
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Speaker 2: couple and two injuries, and so we were obviously extremely concerned.
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Speaker 2: Our Staf's done an unbelievable job of managing the minutes
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Speaker 2: and the rotations and getting those guys in and stealing
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Speaker 2: a few minutes here and there. But when we went small,
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Speaker 2: we were obviously concerned when you're playing Arizona going small,
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Speaker 2: and we were able.
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Speaker 3: To get stops.
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Speaker 2: The guards were flatting, wings were flying in and keeping
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Speaker 2: balls alive, and once we were able to get them,
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Speaker 2: we could We turned our disadvantage on one end doing
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Speaker 2: an advantage on the other and had them spaced out.
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Speaker 2: And I thought we generated some great looks in the
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Speaker 2: first half and they didn't go down, and then the
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Speaker 2: same shots dropped in the second.
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Speaker 1: On the left side to the right of the aisle.
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Speaker 22: Dan, yeah, he does the Dan Wilkanyahu's sports. I know
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Speaker 22: you you know, don't have guys who've played in the
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Speaker 22: Final four before. But what kind of a difference do
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Speaker 22: you think it made to, you know, have a bunch
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Speaker 22: of guys who've been around the block and college basketball,
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Speaker 22: to you know, be able to come out here and
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Speaker 22: as you said, I think play the way.
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Speaker 1: You normally play.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just that these guys have such a I mean
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Speaker 2: our guys, Arizona's guys, even the young players, they have
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Speaker 2: such a I guess extensive background playing high level basketball games.
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Speaker 2: But whether it's national team stuff or even this year,
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Speaker 2: we scheduled incredibly aggressive. We have the second toughest schedule
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Speaker 2: in the country behind my friend Nate at Alabama, who
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Speaker 2: tries to have the toughest schedule every year. We followed
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Speaker 2: that model, and so we just felt like we were
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Speaker 2: battle tested and we were concerned that playing that schedule
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Speaker 2: the stamina, the mental stammana, the physical stamma that this
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Speaker 2: season can take going through the Big Ten play.
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Speaker 3: And I give our guys a lot of credit.
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Speaker 2: They've they've taken a back seat when they've needed to,
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Speaker 2: they've stepped up when they've needed to, and they just
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Speaker 2: it's a group that's it's very bright and they have
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Speaker 2: great self awareness.
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Speaker 1: Upfront of the left.
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Speaker 17: Seth Dusty Seth, Davis HOOPSTAHQ. I think Iron Ego would
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Speaker 17: call this question a triple yoxel. Okay, number one. You
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Speaker 17: brought them back kind of later in the second half
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Speaker 17: when the game was pretty well decided, wondering why take
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Speaker 17: that risk.
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Speaker 2: Well, apparently you guys missed the Duke game. The game
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Speaker 2: was already decided. Then we were playing Duke Tomorrow. They
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Speaker 2: were up nineteen correct in the second half, and who won.
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Speaker 2: So these being out and you're playing Arizona, one of
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Speaker 2: the best teams, I mean statistically the number one or
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Speaker 2: two team all year in the country, and you're up
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Speaker 2: twenty with ten minutes left, with eight and a half
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Speaker 2: minutes left, we didn't feel quite as confident as you
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Speaker 2: guys did that we could just hang, you know, put
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Speaker 2: the kids to bed, and he came in and just
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Speaker 2: La was in foul trouble and so he just held
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Speaker 2: it down.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, we obviously we felt like the game was
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Speaker 3: still in hand.
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Speaker 12: Up front on the right, Chris Pallas with the Wolverine
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Speaker 12: on three Dusty their game plan. Obviously, we used to
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Speaker 12: try to get physical with you. Can you just talk
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Speaker 12: about not just how your bigs handled that, but your
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Speaker 12: guards and did you challenge them before the game? Knowing
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Speaker 12: that was common.
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Speaker 2: We've played with great physicality all year. We've done the
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Speaker 2: great job in the weight room. We've done a I
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Speaker 2: think solid job of not beating our guys up in practice,
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Speaker 2: but yet preparing them for the mental and physical wear
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Speaker 2: and tear of these type of games.
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Speaker 3: But it's a mindset.
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Speaker 2: It's not as if Mares Johnson needs to get souped
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Speaker 2: up to go banging against those guys.
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Speaker 3: That's who he is by nature.
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Speaker 2: And then you look at Trey McKinney, how physical he
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Speaker 2: is for a freshman, Roddy and even a die. Dies
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Speaker 2: have really come a long way with his strength and
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Speaker 2: also just his mindset. But and yeah, I think the
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Speaker 2: guys the Big ten schedule prepared those guys for this.
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Speaker 1: We have a minute left in here, We're going to
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Speaker 1: go to forty and then Adam and wrap up.
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Speaker 3: How about Mitch.
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Speaker 9: Dusty Pat forty from Sports Illustrated. Arizona most of the
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Speaker 9: season has been longer, stronger than the teams they have played.
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Speaker 9: How much do you think you maybe knocked them back
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Speaker 9: on their heels with your size and strength early on.
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Speaker 2: Pat, I think a lot of it is just simply matchups.
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Speaker 2: And when we've played this model, this Arizona model this year,
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Speaker 2: and they're the souped up version, They're they're the steroid version.
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Speaker 3: Of Gonzaga and these other teams.
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Speaker 2: We've just felt like if a team relies on scoring
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Speaker 2: fifteen feet and in with a Die and Mares and
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Speaker 2: Yaks and Namuri Burnett and Rody Gull because of our
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Speaker 2: size length, it's just it's going to be tough to
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Speaker 2: score enough points fifteen feet and in if we're making
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Speaker 2: some shots and we're in any decent and we're in
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Speaker 2: a decent rhythm offensively, and I think that's what happened
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Speaker 2: to night. I do think we matched up well with Arizona,
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Speaker 2: better than we have some other teams this year.
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Speaker 1: Final question Adam right side.
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Speaker 23: Dusty Adam Zagoria Forbes Sports. When you were recruiting a
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Speaker 23: Die out of the portal, did you sort of envision
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Speaker 23: a bigger or different role for him than he had
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Speaker 23: at UCLA? And is what we saw tonight kind of
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Speaker 23: the ultimate on what you envisioned with him? I mean
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Speaker 23: he just set up here that he wasn't able to
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Speaker 23: show what he could do for two years.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not going to speak on any of where
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Speaker 2: these guys were before. A Die has put a lot
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Speaker 2: of work.
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Speaker 3: He obviously.
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Speaker 2: It takes time to grow into this role. He's physically
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Speaker 2: more mature or that he was. Did we envision this?
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Speaker 2: We we went back and we looked at his film
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Speaker 2: and playing with the Spanish national team, playing for Zaragoza,
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Speaker 2: playing and he had shown glimpses of this, I mean,
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Speaker 2: coming over he was I think projected on the mock
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Speaker 2: drafts is maybe a lottery pick, top ten pick, and
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Speaker 2: then just like a lot of guys are and then
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Speaker 2: those things change.
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Speaker 3: But he's playing ball at a high level and he's
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Speaker 3: he's added a lot to our program. Very very grateful
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Speaker 3: for him.
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Speaker 1: Want to congratulate, you want to go to Mitch.
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Speaker 14: Thank you for goodness, and just back to Elliott for
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Speaker 14: a second. I know by the end everybody had a
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Speaker 14: lot of stats, but the way teams come out in
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Speaker 14: these games often sets the tone for what it ends
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Speaker 14: up being. And can you just speak about him at
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Speaker 14: the start, especially with the AXL two quick valves, the
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Speaker 14: way that he sort of controlled the game not only
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Speaker 14: was shooting, but with steels and and with the passes
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Speaker 14: that he made in the assists that he got early on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the thing with with Elliott and Jacks and Mares
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Speaker 2: and Diyning, these guys, all the portal guys, when we've
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Speaker 2: played our the biggest stages, in the most important moments,
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Speaker 2: their play has been elevated.
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Speaker 3: The assist coaches and we were talking about before.
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Speaker 2: The game, We're like, man, Elliot's gonna have a big
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Speaker 2: game because of the way Arizona defense, but also just
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Speaker 2: because of the stage he's fearless, he's incredibly competitive, and
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Speaker 2: then his basketball IQ is off the charts, and so
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Speaker 2: we felt very confident when you have someone that can
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Speaker 2: control the game like he does and also push tempo.
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Speaker 2: And then when he's not infoulcherable, he's a pest defensively
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Speaker 2: and he cancels ball screens.
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Speaker 3: He gets you out of your offense. So he's been
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Speaker 3: awesome for us.
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Speaker 4: Want to congratulate and thank coach May for joining us
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Speaker 4: here in the main interview room. The Michigan locker room
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Speaker 4: is open until till twenty five, so you guys can
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Speaker 4: head down there and get Michigan student athletes. The Arizona
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Speaker 4: locker room's also open un till twelve thirty three. Twelve
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Speaker 4: twenty five, Michigan, twelve thirty three, Arizona.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, coach