WTKA Roundtable 3/15/2018: Basketball Christmas Comment Count

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Things discussed:

  • Michigan ends up seeded below MSU but with a more favorable draw.
  • Last Michigan team that faced UNC was a very different team than a hypothetical rematch in the Sweet 16.
  • Montana preview: The best 14 seed sure, but shut down their point guard and you’re in business.
  • Don’t look past Houston, though. Ed’s numbers favor Houston and people are emailing. They can catch fire from three—Michigan’s ability to run them off the line makes us a bad matchup for them.
  • Houston’s path to an upset is defense and getting hot from three. But they’re a small team so Michigan should be able to beat them in the paint.
  • Virginia: how much does losing the 6th man of the year affect them?
  • Callers: Angry Steve. Angry Phil.
  • In-Studio: Angry Craig.
  • Auburn is playing like there’s no tomorrow, because there’s no tomorrow.
  • Don’t like playing against zones because Michigan just stares at them before they figure out how to shoot, and we don’t have a lot of rise-up shooters on this team.
  • Around the brackets: How does Zona start two 7-footers and not be close to a top 50 defense? 1 seed Xavier is not favored vs 4 seed Gonzaga—do we believe it? Sam like Zona.
  • First round games: Butler is the easy pick. Would you ever take a 10% sixteen seed?
  • Who’s the last Teske that Michigan’s had? Craig starts to talk about the worst officiating call in the history of the Big Ten.
  • When will teams start playing Z dishonestly? If they haven’t already there’s a there there.
  • Final Fours: Brian: UNC-Duke, Craig: Cincy-Xavier-Purdue-Duke, Ed: Nova-Cincy

You can catch the entire episode on Michigan Insider's podcast stream on Audioboom.

Segment two is here. Segment three is here.

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Comments

ak47

March 15th, 2018 at 11:53 AM ^

Michigan's defense has been good, but this is still a team that gave up 40 first half points to Iowa, UNC and their 5th ranked kenpom o could still go off

mwolverine1

March 15th, 2018 at 2:16 PM ^

Yea as noted we've moneyballed defense by preventing offensive rebounds, 3 pointers, and transition. We still have some weaknesses one on one and no shotblocking when Wagner is on the floor. A team like UNC may be able to take advantage. Maye went off last time we played. I'd expect us to defend Berry better with Simpson instead of Brooks, but they were also missing starter Cam Johnson.

ST3

March 15th, 2018 at 12:43 PM ^

After the only other two PAC-12 teams lost in the play-in games, the shine is off of Zona. Ayton is a formidable man-child for sure, but Zona feels like a champion from a Mid-Major conference now, even worse than the Big10's down year. I mean, what happened to the PAC-12?

UofM Die Hard …

March 15th, 2018 at 3:57 PM ^

100 hit him in the face.

 

He is on their for the argument piece of all radio shows.  ESPN throws out all these basketball projections and its clear to eveyone they dont even watch the games....that is what i see with Ed.



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