Now, they win with defense and it keeps them in every game they play. John Beilein’s Wolverines have long been a program where if they didn’t shoot well, they were in trouble.

Moritz Wagner, Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and Zavier Simpson were fairly quiet in both games and a betting man would assume that is not going to happen again. Heck, they may lose, but they will not be as “meh” as they were this weekend. I can confidently sit here today and say the Wolverines will not play worse the rest of the way. Michigan was ripe for an upset twice and played two of its worst games of the year consecutively, but walked out with a pair of wins nonetheless.

So many elite teams played horrible basketball this weekend and as a result got sent home from the big dance. Good things CAN happen to a team that plays in Ann Arbor. The University of Michigan is going to win the National Title. But after what has been the craziest opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament that I can ever remember, I am ready to scream it from the mountaintops. I will be honest, I wanted to write this after the Big Ten Tournament, perhaps even a few days before then.

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