Michigan basketball vs Arizona Final Four prediction, preview: Wolverines headed to title game?
"We knew eventually we'd have to play these guys if we wanted to do what we wanted to do, which is win a national championship," Roddy Gayle Jr. said.
INDIANAPOLIS − These two teams felt destined for a collision at some point. And here it is. Midwest 1-seed Michigan basketball and West 1-seed Arizona will meet Saturday, April 4 (8:49, TBS) in the Final Four at Lucas Oil Stadium, for a berth in the national championship game.
A journey that began last summer , got national attention in the fall and dominated in the winter is now set to conclude in spring. POLAR PLUNGES TO POINT GUARD: How Dusty May became Michigan basketball's ultimate connector "With them being the No. 1 team [earlier in the year] and that being something we wanted, I caught a few of their games," senior guard Roddy Gayle Jr.
said. "Obviously, we knew eventually we'd have to play these guys if we wanted to do what we wanted to do, which is win a national championship. " Gayle compared the Wildcats' style of play to Gonzaga − a team U-M crushed by 40 points in the Players Era Festival title game in Last Vegas during Thanksgiving week.
Tommy Lloyd, Arizona's newly extended coach, spent years as an assistant at Gonzaga and, just like Mark Few, he likes to use bigs, dominate around the rim and dictate the terms of engagement. But Gayle also noted that the Wolverines are well aware the domination they achieved against the Bulldogs in November is unlikely in April. This isn't the first matchup between Lloyd and Michigan coach Dusty May.
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