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buckeyemania11 said:
This scUM team is currently not nearly as good as their ranking. Needed another mediocre at best power conference team to fall apart down the stretch to win last night against TCU. TCU had lost their season opener to New Orleans (166th in Kenpom)
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They're definitely riding the coattails of last season's team, but without Danny Wolf and Vlad Goldin, who were terrific. I don't think Lendeborg and Johnson are quite as good as the two bigs they had last year.
 
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DZ83CK said:
They're definitely riding the coattails of last season's team, but without Danny Wolf and Vlad Goldin, who were terrific. I don't think Lendeborg and Johnson are quite as good as the two bigs they had last year.
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I definitely don't think Lendeborg translates to the higher level that well. He will be a ok player but he's not gonna be near the player he was at the lower level. There's a reason he decided not to enter the draft I think the NBA scouts saw the same thing.
 
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Men's Power Rankings: Michigan leaps to No. 1, plus 5 new faces

The Wolverines had perhaps the best Feast Week to take them over Arizona and Purdue in a roller-coaster No. 1 race.
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Men's college basketball Power Rankings: Michigan leaps to No. 1​

Michigan's performance at the Players Era Championship in Las Vegas was perhaps the best Feast Week run we've ever seen. Three wins over potential NCAA tournament teams -- San Diego State, Auburn and Gonzaga, the last of which looked like a No. 1 candidate before the loss -- by a combined 110 points. The Wolverines rose to No. 1 in nearly every metric, from KenPom to Bart Torvik to the NET.

Some of the stats were simply eye-popping, with this one standing out:



Dusty May has the best defense in the country and a team that's huge, deep, old and can win playing different ways. Entering the second quarter of the regular season, Michigan is the national title favorite -- and No. 1 this week.

Just sayin':

1. scUM is currently 7-0, actually beaten some ranked teams, and are ranked 2nd in the Coaches Poll and 3rd in the AP Poll.

2. May was hired by Michigan in 2024, replacing Juwan Howard.
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Holtmann was fired on February 14, 2024, and Diebler was named the interim head coach for the Buckeyes. On March 17, Diebler was officially named Ohio State's head men's basketball coach

3. You have to wonder why Ohio State didn't try to hire Dusty May. He was one of the "hot candidates" for a promotion to a "top school" at that time. scUM "chose wisely" and had hit a "grand slam" with that hire. Ohio State promoted from within and might have just gotten "Holtmann 2.0".
 
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DZ83CK said:
Maybe one of the reasons Dusty May went to UM and not OSU was the NIL factor. Coaches prefer to go where the resources are, not where they have to do more with less.
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Still think they mailed it and hired Diebler because of the athletic director transition that was going on at the time, they knew they could skate on the success of the football program and not have to make things more difficult than they had to be.
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
Still think they mailed it and hired Diebler because of the athletic director transition that was going on at the time, they knew they could skate on the success of the football program and not have to make things more difficult than they had to be.
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I don't think the transition was really the reason. I think was more a sign that OSU doesn't take hoops as enough of a priority to invest blue-blood type resources. They've got to focus on football and allocate every resource they can to that or else they lose the spot on top. In a world with limited funds, you've got to look out for the cash cow.
 
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