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Michigan Championship Trophy Presentation | 2025 Players Era Festival · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: And the Michigan Wolverines a dominant performance.
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  Speaker 2: In Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: They win it by forty. They hand mark few is
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  Speaker 1: worst loss, as the head coach ed Gonzaga a team
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be in the top ten come next week.
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  Speaker 1: The actual Lndenborg and the Michigan Wolverines roll their way
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  Speaker 1: through the Players Era. They win the Geico Players Era
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  Speaker 1: title a million dollars to the nil and the geycoch
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  Speaker 1: Trophy is theirs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that was impressive. It was impressive. All bets on
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  Speaker 2: Mazon Blue.
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  Speaker 1: They came here.
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  Speaker 2: They knew what the mission was, sense of purpose, a
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  Speaker 2: sense of togetherness, talent, great coaching, a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: money in their pockets, and a lot of opportunity in
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  Speaker 2: optimism this year for this team.
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  Speaker 1: They played three games and they outscore their opponents by
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and tense yikes, masterclass by the Wolverines. They
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  Speaker 1: go to seven and oo Gonzaga suffers their first loss
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  Speaker 1: man the Geico Players There a trophy belongs to the Wolverines.
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  Speaker 1: They set up for a for a presentation. Lauren Jabbara
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  Speaker 1: getting in place. Alabama and Maryland on this floor. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as we're done with the presentation here the three
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  Speaker 1: point shooting, I mean you could go in every direction
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  Speaker 1: with Michigan. Let the Wolverines knocked down thirteen threes and
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  Speaker 1: this one from here tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Will be a really from the jump, first possession and
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  Speaker 2: thend and board knocking down a three. But everybody got
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  Speaker 2: in the three party. And this team with the interior
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  Speaker 2: in the three point shooting, so hard to stop, so
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  Speaker 2: hard to defend. You talk about ten days off right now,
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  Speaker 2: well as a deserving rest for this Wolverines ball club.
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  Speaker 1: They will prepare for conference play and Rutgers on December sixth,
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  Speaker 1: and they are going to be flying high with confidence
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  Speaker 1: as they go into Big ten play. Three memorable days
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  Speaker 1: here in Las Vegas. Took down San Diego State, beat
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  Speaker 1: him by forty. San Diego State came back and won
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  Speaker 1: the next day, and then a most impressive win thirty
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  Speaker 1: point victory over Auburn, and then they hang Gonzaga a
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  Speaker 1: forty point loss. Think about Mark few nine hundred and
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  Speaker 1: two games as a head coach at Gonzaga, worst loaf
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  Speaker 1: he's ever endured. A forty point loss. And let's send
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  Speaker 1: it over to Lauren Jabbarro to do the honors with
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Wolverines. Thank you so.
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  Speaker 3: Much, Ba, I really appreciate it. Congratulations first of all
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  Speaker 3: to the Michigan Wolverines, the Geico Players Era champions We
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  Speaker 3: have to give them their flowers. So to do that,
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  Speaker 3: let's bring up Seth Berger, the CEO of Players Era,
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  Speaker 3: and Lance Evans, SVP Senior Sports and Sponsorships of MGM Resorts,
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  Speaker 3: to bring up the Geico Players Era Championship Trophy. He
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  Speaker 3: got some bling you like that? Yes, a nice blame, Dusty.
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  Speaker 3: You told me yesterday that your team deserves to be here.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't just deserve to be here. You're dominated for
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  Speaker 3: three straight days. What did you learn about this team
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  Speaker 3: and the way that they competed even when you're up twenty,
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  Speaker 3: that they're growing together? First and foremost, we went at
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  Speaker 3: a halftime as a staff and said, we have a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's playing well and everyone can't play right now. Only
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  Speaker 1: five guys could be on the court. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: testament to how they work every single day and then
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  Speaker 1: can just continue to get better.
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  Speaker 3: It's really incredible to watch. Congratulations Dusty, Thanks Lorten. All right,
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  Speaker 3: now we have to hand out the MVP right yacks
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  Speaker 3: to Lendenburg. Where are you come on up here? Blas
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  Speaker 3: manthy MGM Resorts tournament director has the ring?
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  Speaker 2: Look at that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, goodness, Hey hold that up so we
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  Speaker 3: can see that on TV.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, So I know we talked the other day.
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  Speaker 3: You said you wanted to come here to play for
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  Speaker 3: Dusty May.
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  Speaker 4: Just the high.
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  Speaker 3: Character guys that are around you. What makes this team
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  Speaker 3: so special this season?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, first and foremost, I love this team, the best
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  Speaker 4: team I've been a part of. Man, everybody's so in selfish.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody just wants to win. And we know if we
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  Speaker 4: all buying together, we're gonna be the best team in
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  Speaker 4: the country. That's w Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: What do you feel like this team is capable of?
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  Speaker 3: Because you come here, you go three and oh against
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  Speaker 3: really dodible competition.
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  Speaker 4: Man, you know we're capable of a national championship. As
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  Speaker 4: long as we keep getting together and growing together, we're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be the best team in the country. Like I
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  Speaker 4: said before, and nobody's gonna be able to stop us.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Michigan's a basketball school.
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  Speaker 4: Huh yes, so hey basketball, everything's cool. Let's do this.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations you guys, in Michigan Wolverines twenty twenty five Geico
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  Speaker 3: Players Era Champion