WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It was 24 hours when every minute, every second in some instances, seemed to count for so much. The members of the University of Michigan men's basketball team got quite a scare, a challenge to recover, and a really big victory.
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At approximately 2:45 p.m. on Wednesday (March 8), they were seconds, perhaps even one pivotal second, away from liftoff at Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti, on their way to Washington, D.C., for the Big Ten Tournament. The brakes were abruptly applied to begin a high-speed abort of the takeoff in winds that had been gusting up to 60 mph.