The Wolverine

November 2013

The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports

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  michigan basketball Beilein: Recapturing The Magic Isn't Automatic N obody has to tell John Beilein he lost perhaps the best backcourt in college basketball from last season. No one has to explain to him the vagaries of how freshmen mix in and react to the big time, or how good fortune often plays a role in oh-soclose games. The Michigan head coach understands completely that this is a different year from the magical ride of last season, when the Wolverines charged to the NCAA championship game and a 31-8 record. Beilein knows how hard the Wolverines worked to make the "magic" happen. He's focused on recreating so many of the intangibles that led to the opportunity for success. "The harder thing is, Head coach John Beilein and the Wolverines have their making us all recall how sights set on a return trip to the Final Four, but they focused we were as we went know it won't be easy. photo by per kjeldsen down the stretch with all the atmosphere and the environment," very quickly, when you're able to make Beilein said, to a Michigan interview the run that we did. How do we get to room overloaded with reporters on the that point? There was incredible focus. team's media day Oct. 24. Well, do we have that again? That's Beilein needed only to point out the the most challenging thing. I don't see throng in front of him to underscore anything different than that, but I'm the lesson. Michigan achieved great with them four hours a day. We're as success, and with that comes great focused as we always have been. scrutiny. "We work at it, we talk about it "Look at this room," Beilein every day, we work as hard as we marveled. "The environment changes can to capture it back. As we examine

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