Michigan basketball's Moritz Wagner meet with reporters on Thursday, March 29, 2018. Nick Baumgardner/Detroit Free Press
John Beilein is changing how we think of him. That's what Final Four runs can do.
For years, the Michigan basketball coach held the respect of his peers within the college coaching community. But he operated as if he were in a classroom in the back of campus.
"I want to be known as a teacher and mentor," he said Thursday from inside the Alamodome, site of the Final Four.