The Michigan Wolverines were set to dominate this year. They returned their star center in Hunter Dickinson and welcomed in another elite transfer point guard in DeVante’ Jones. Along with a star studded freshmen class and Eli Brooks, who had been on three deep tournament runs, the Wolverines looked primed to repeat as a major contender for the National Championship.
There wasn’t an expectation they didn’t have, but few could have predicted how this season actually panned out.
The season was peculiar in the sense that it didn’t fully measure up to preseason hopes, but it still produced a Sweet 16 appearance, the fifth straight for Michigan.