WASHINGTON, D.C. -- John Beilein has spent the last seven seasons with Derrick Walton Jr. The University of Michigan men's basketball coach began recruiting his senior co-captain when he was a sophomore at Chandler Park Academy in Harper Woods, Michigan.
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Beilein wanted some one-on-one time with Walton, who has become like family to him, and gave him a lift to the airport last weekend before flying out for the final game of the regular season.
"When Derrick went to the airport with me last week," said Beilein, "when we flew to Nebraska, he rode with me.