WICHITA, Kansas (WOOD) — A night after Michigan won its first NCAA Tournament game, it held a practice at Intrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas.
A black curtain hid the court from the spectators’ sight, but the sound of sneakers pacing back and forth showed the team going to work on the same floor the team had so much trouble on the night before.
“I used the word awkward, how everything felt when we had to wait so long,” head coach John Beilein said. “Once again we’re on Eastern Time, our body clocks are on Eastern Time, the game really started at 10-something our time. That felt awkward, I think that’s slowly diminishing right now.”
Inside the locker room, there was no leftover taste for the Wolverines of that sluggish tournament debut. They were loose and joking, as has been the case inside the locker room over the last three days in Wichita.
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