Michigan basketball coach John Beilein talks with the media Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at Willow Run airport about the team's loss to Villanova in the NCAA championship game the previous night. Eric Seals, Detroit Free Press
SAN ANTONIO — The stories did not begin with glamour.
Eleven years ago, John Beilein started a Michigan basketball program that he hoped would produce a load of — as he often says — “great senior days” with plenty of smiles and victories.
He wanted his program to be built from the ground up, with the foundation being home-grown players who went through the system, went through the process, and came out the other side having impacted everything around them for the better.