Michigan basketball wins record only a stepping stone
Michigan basketball won a program-record 34th game this season in advancing to the Elite 8. That's not the goal, though.
CHICAGO − Aday Mara had no idea of the history Michigan basketball made in the Windy City. The Wolverines surged past Alabama at United Center on Friday, March 27 for the program's first Elite Eight berth since 2021. The win was No.
34 this season – one more than the 2017-18 team, the last U-M squad to reach the Final Four. The winningest season in 109 seasons of maize-and-blue history. That's worth celebrating, right?
CARLOS MONARREZ: Michigan basketball leaves no questions in Sweet 16 about title chances "When we go to a game, we're not worried about, oh, let's win today, because it's gonna be history ," Mara said. "We know that our goal is bigger than that; it's winning a championship. But it's always great to see that every game, if we win, we're making history for this program.
" Friday brought another rumble through another NCAA round, in almost workmanlike fashion. Three March Madness games – halfway to the goal – and three double-digit wins. This one featured some individual history, too: Yaxel Lendeborg's 23 points, 12 rebounds and seven assists made him the most recent player in the Sweet 16 (or later) with at least 20 points, 10 boards and seven helpers since 2003, when future Basketball Hall of Famers Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony.