Yaxel Lendeborg has led Michigan all year, but center Aday Mara is Dusty May's key to another March Madness Final Four run in 2026

I’ve been trying to figure out how to put this Michigan run to the Final Four into context. John Beilein’s two trips to the Final Four felt like the culmination of something long and hard, a testament to sticking to it over many years and through failure and some rough patches.

Michigan basketball wasn't going to annihilate every opponent by 30 points. When a tighter-than-expected contest broke out earlier in the week on the road at Penn State, it could be chalked up as a road game in front of a sleepy crowd that was hard to get ...