No. 1 NCAA Tournament seed Auburn, despite trailing by as many as nine points in the second half, came back by turning off Wolf's scoring show and going on an 18-2 run
I agree with everything you wrote here, Steve. This was a highly successful season no matter what metric under which you examine it. I’m already looking forward to next season!
For all the well deserved accolades and tributes that Dusty May and the Wolverines rightly earned, I still cannot help but wonder why they refused to fix a couple of their most glaring weaknesses, namely turnovers and allowing offensive rebounds. There’s a coach 63 miles up the road that would have lost his mind over these issues and would have gone overboard to straighten them out. That coach and his team are on the cusp of a Final Four while we're supposed to accept that improving from 8-24 to 27-10 is the best we are allowed to have. That’s called settling.
Good points, Bob. But I'll take this season and worry more about improvement in those areas next year. It isn't easy to mold 11 new players into a machine. And as for the coach up in EL, he hasn't beaten any team better than a No. 6 seed yet. He was given a red carpet to the Elite 8. He's talented, no doubt, but we'll see how he does now.
I agree with everything you wrote here, Steve. This was a highly successful season no matter what metric under which you examine it. I’m already looking forward to next season!
Thanks a ton, Brian. We had a great season to enjoy that we couldn't have anticipated. I'm like you, already looking forward to 2024-25!
For all the well deserved accolades and tributes that Dusty May and the Wolverines rightly earned, I still cannot help but wonder why they refused to fix a couple of their most glaring weaknesses, namely turnovers and allowing offensive rebounds. There’s a coach 63 miles up the road that would have lost his mind over these issues and would have gone overboard to straighten them out. That coach and his team are on the cusp of a Final Four while we're supposed to accept that improving from 8-24 to 27-10 is the best we are allowed to have. That’s called settling.
Good points, Bob. But I'll take this season and worry more about improvement in those areas next year. It isn't easy to mold 11 new players into a machine. And as for the coach up in EL, he hasn't beaten any team better than a No. 6 seed yet. He was given a red carpet to the Elite 8. He's talented, no doubt, but we'll see how he does now.