Defend the Block 284 - USC Recap

MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen

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Michigan, College, Sports, Ncaa, Jon Jansen, Wolverines, Football

4.8 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Wolverines improved to 3-0 in Big Ten play with an 85-74 road win at USC on Saturday night. Brian Boesch and Terry Mills react to a wild game off the top of the episode. We get into our postgame interviews around the 11-minute mark, as Brian visits with Head Coach Dusty May, center Vlad Goldin, and guard Roddy Gayle, Jr. The episode concludes with a full highlight recap.

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0:00.0	How Michigan went to USC and won on Saturday night felt fitting for the game that this was,
0:06.5	the start of Big Ten play for real. Yeah, there were the two games in the month of December,
0:12.4	but that's a little preview. This truly felt like the beginning of Big Ten play, and Michigan
0:17.7	got the job done. Big Ten play requires adaptability.
0:22.2	It requires weathering and surviving storms.
0:25.9	It requires overcoming some adversity,
0:29.4	and it requires being physical enough to get the job done.
0:32.8	The way that this one ebbed and flowed,
0:35.3	ultimately yielding an 11-point Michigan victory, a score that's
0:39.0	somewhat misleading, it was fascinating to see how Michigan kind of had to be chameleon-like as they
0:47.0	were trying to figure out how to get this win. In the first half, Michigan, who entered play on
0:53.6	Saturday, with the second best two-point
0:56.0	field goal percentage as a team in the country, only behind Alabama, they were just three of 11
1:02.2	from inside the arc. They started 5 of 5 from deep, ended 10 of 16 in the first half of action,
1:08.7	and it was just a four-point lead going into the break, but certainly had to feel pretty
1:12.3	good, considering the fact that Michigan had several keycogs not really make much of an
1:17.2	impact.
1:17.9	Roddy Gale Jr.
1:18.9	Two fouls, six minutes didn't score.
1:20.8	Vlad Golden, only two points in this one in the first half.
1:24.5	Second half, it really was a tale of the beginning and the end.
1:28.7	Michigan used Area 51 to storm out to what felt like it could be the runaway surge.
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