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Any outcome is wonderful save for a beatdown. A win would just be off-the-charts joy. But Michigan's done it's OOC work and will have the best tournament resume in the country or one of them come selection Sunday. Expectations are an S16 at minimum and to compete for the conference championship. Sparty has some issues to work through, as it seems most people have forgotten how ill a fit Izzo is with younger role players. Loss of McQuaid and Found was huge. Still an excellent team but the top of the conference may end up more competitive than we thought.
I hope all of this is a sign that the decision to bring in Howard was a good one. Beilein laid a sound foundation, and now Howard can add his touch, and make this a yearly contender for national honors.
So cool going from unranked to #4. I'm enjoying this but I'm going to keep my enthusiasm as tempered as I can considering how early it is.
Looking forward to tomorrow. Hopefully they don't let the game get away from them and out of control -- but with it being a top 5 match up, national tv, the home team just announced ranked #1 in the country -- the atmosphere is going to something else. Michigan better be ready to punch back, and fast, because you know Louisville is going to be throwing haymakers from the start in this one.
They'll be hyped up in front of their crowd, but we're the battle-tested ones. Still, not much turn-around time after playing 3 games in 3 days. If they win given all that I'll be on record expecting a championship run. I'm really desperate to see these two seniors go out strong. Really hated seeing them lose their coach going into their senior year with so much potential and after the disappointment of last year.
I like Chris Mack a lot, but that won't make me hate Louisville any less. Pretty dead crowd, tbh. Glad I missed most of this; my kid had his own team's practice.
I don't know basketball, my son does. We watched it together. That was his exact take.
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
I like Chris Mack a lot, but that won't make me hate Louisville any less. Pretty dead crowd, tbh. Glad I missed most of this; my kid had his own team's practice.
Zack Shaw was saying on the radio today that the crowd was very loud. I think ESPN had some audio difficulties. I know I had my TV turned up a few notches beyond my normal setting.
As for the game, it reminded me a lot of the Texas Tech game. I kept waiting for our offense to start clicking but it never came. To get pretty much nothing out of Livers, Brooks, and DDJ was pretty surprising.
The whole "we want the smoke" quote from Dejulius -- really a big deal about nothing IMO. What he said wasn't meant to disrespect Louisville. It was basically just him saying that he wants Louisville's best. They're acting like he said they sucked or something.
Anyway hopefully the guys have washed that rough game on Tuesday out of their system and will be ready to perform at a high level on Friday, because Iowa is going to be tough. They seem to be returning pretty much everyone from last season, have wins over Texas Tech and Syracuse (albeit what looks to be a possibly bad Syracuse team), and their 2 L's cane against teams who are both 9-0.
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