Defend the Block 288 - Northwestern Recap

MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen

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

4.8 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Less than 72 hours after suffering an overtime loss, the Wolverines earned an overtime victory on Sunday, 80-76 over Northwestern. Brian and Terry react to the roller coaster-like win. Then, our postgame interviews begin around the 13-minute mark, as Brian visits with Head Coach Dusty May, grad student Rubin Jones, junior Tre Donaldson, and leading scorer Vlad Goldin. The podcast concludes with a full highlight recap of Michigan's seventh win in eight Big Ten tries.

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0:00.0	That was a roller coaster.
0:02.2	That was a wild week.
0:04.8	Two games, two overtime contests, a gut punch loss on Thursday in Minneapolis,
0:10.8	and then a relief of a win over Northwestern here on Sunday.
0:15.7	I think college basketball seasons in a lot of cases, especially when you are contending
0:20.8	in your league
0:21.6	and trying to get a pretty good seat in the NCAA tournament, that seasons kind of go the way
0:26.7	that this one has, where in the offseason, optimism abound. It's easy to look at the 90th
0:34.1	percentile season for a player and hope that every Michigan player hits that.
0:39.0	I know.
0:39.4	I'm as guilty of it as anybody.
0:41.3	Then you get into the month of November and into December and you think, oh, maybe
0:45.3	this team can play.
0:46.3	10-11 players, a lot of contributors.
0:48.7	This team could be undefeated with some of the close losses that Michigan had.
0:53.1	Then you get to hear this type of a week,
0:55.3	where you're 5 and 0 in the Big Ten,
0:57.2	everybody's telling you how great you are,
0:59.4	and then you go to Minnesota and you lose.
1:02.1	You put up one of your worst performances of the season,
1:04.9	Minnesota able to anchor one of its best performances of the season,
1:08.9	and you come out of there with a loss for your first
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