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Michigan Basketball: Being Not Bad Isn’t Good

Here we are on the first day of March, and we have no idea if the Michigan Wolverines will be heading to the NCAA Tournament or the NIT.

Looking back at the beginning of this season, at all the promise that was clearly there, it’s kind of weird to recognize all the things that went wrong and helped put the Wolverines in this position.

First there was Spike Albrecht, who stepped away from the game in early December because of struggles with surgically repaired hips. Then there was Caris LeVert, who was struck down with a left leg injury in Michigan’s first conference game of the season on Dec.