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Father, finance geek, Wolverine, independent mail-in voter. Country over party. Opinions my own.

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@StevensD22 @JamieShaw5 What does blue blood mean? Historical excellence? How far back? National title count? Over what timeframe?

Duke is interesting - strong in the 1950s/60s, bad in the early 70s, good in the 80s. But no titles until 1991. 5 total since then.

Blue blood or no? Criteria matter.

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@ERICKPARSONS1 @MaryamF12389 Also true of Hawaii.

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@UMFanJosh I forgot that even happened. It's not like it affected the ultimate result of the game.

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@jamietodd1 @uofmcoverage My ACL reconstruction was 10 weeks post injury. They want the swelling to go down, and then I did weeks of rehab to build up the musculature around the joint so that you don't lose as much ground after surgery when everything around the joint atrophies.

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@DalyDoseOfHoops No argument from this UM grad. I was stunned when I heard Szelc and Anderson got F4 assignments.

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@peterp2000 @DalyDoseOfHoops UConn #308 in fouls/def possession (bottom sextile/most fouls). UM #14.

UConn #306 in FT rate (bottom sextile/fewest FTs). UM #69.

UConn avg'd 18.8 fouls/gm in 1st 5 games of NCAAT, & 22 vs. UM, the most physical and paint-centric team they played.

It wasn't a bad whistle.

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@YafengWang328 @DalyDoseOfHoops The worst referee for Michigan, historically, is Paul Szelc, who mercifully got the UConn-Illinois game in the Final Four. He was singularly awful for UM against Duke in February.

FWIW, Anderson didn't ref any of Michigan's 3 losses this year.

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@moore_kobe24 @ESabro3 And Terrance Shannon.

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@MichaelDZZZ @CrusaderBear333 @CFB_Data I presume it's that a jumpshooting team (bottom 1/4ile in free throw rate (#306) & fewest fouls/defensive possession (#308) shot fewer FTs than a paint-scoring team (top 1/4ile in FT rate and #14 in fouls pp).

Inexplicable that Team A fouled a lot and shot fewer FTs, right?

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@DylanEveryday @DaytonBuckeyeML @GabeHoyer There are a lot of M fans that would also pay to send Warde to Columbus. Let's make it happen.

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@PurdueBballGuy Kentucky and their $21mm roster that didn't make it out of the first weekend might not agree.

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@GolfRhetoric @BenScottStevens While the NCG was a sludgefest, Michigan trouncing Arizona in the Final Four was gorgeous and hugely entertaining (on one side, at least).

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@ComplexSports God thinks he should work on his midrange game.

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@MTC_1287 @Bryan9660167214 @NILnotNLI Louisville needed an uncalled goaltend, 6 fouls for Luke Hancock, and 1 of the most egregious foul calls on a clean block in the history of the sport.

Louisville was great that year. But Michigan was ranked #1 for some time that year & slipped to a 4 seed w a late season slump.

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@realdonkeyz @BBoughton49096 @MarchMadnessMBB @bluebyninety @umichbball @CBBonFOX @br_CBB @TheFieldOf68 @SleepersMedia @BustingBrackets @barstoolsports @BarstoolUofM @richeisen They did cherry pick the semifinal.

I was there live in 1992 and watched the Fab Five lose by 20 to Duke.

Michigan is 7-1 in semis and 1-6 in title games. They've been 1 of the best teams in at least 1 year in 7 of the last 8 decades, but only once have they won it all.

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@BSB_Wolverine If you were a neutral party faced with that choice, who would you choose?

They hate the overwhelming answer to that question.

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@realdonkeyz @BBoughton49096 @MarchMadnessMBB @bluebyninety @umichbball @CBBonFOX @br_CBB @TheFieldOf68 @SleepersMedia @BustingBrackets @barstoolsports @BarstoolUofM @richeisen That Michigan loss was to Duke in 1964. This is Final Four (semifinals) only. Michigan has never played Villanova in the semifinals.

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@itsAntWright Szelc is the absolute worst, and Anderson is neck and neck with him.

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@BobBurg11324144 @MikeToldoRLP @GoodmanHoops Also 2018 Michigan, tbh.

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@BobBurg11324144 @MikeToldoRLP @GoodmanHoops 2000 MSU.