Michigan's Moritz Wagner, Zavier Simpson, Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and Duncan Robinson discuss their NCAA Tournament run and Monday's title game against Villanova. Matt Charboneau, Detroit News
San Antonio — They weren’t supposed to be here, not by any reasonable measure. Not the one-time, big-time recruit who transferred in to rebuild his game, not the other transfer from a tiny school, not the unheralded recruit who arrived as a veritable afterthought.
Michigan wasn’t supposed to be here, playing Villanova for the national championship, not logically. And of course, the Wolverines aren’t predicted to win tonight, a seven-point underdog against the top-seeded Wildcats, the biggest point spread in the title game since 2010.