VILLANOVA, Pa. — By the end of the night, the script had fully flipped, the vestiges of a championship rendered irrelevant in what was only a rematch in the nominal sense. “This was a November win,” head coach John Beilein cautioned. His Michigan team had just delivered a 73–46 win, a measured bruising of Villanova that doubled as April’s championship game redux. The recasting of the matchup suited them, the Wolverines playing an ugly foil to avenge a 17-point defeat while their opponents christened a revamped Finneran Pavilion with little style to speak of. Beilein is right—it’s too soon to call anything—but it was evident what changed in seven months’ time.
Michigan's Clinical Takedown of Villanova Shows Rebuilt Wildcats Have a Long Ways to Go
