[TidesHoss32]

One other thing about experience..at the beginning of the 1991-92 season, Michigan started five freshmen, had a solid regular season (20-8), losing several games they should have won, yet got hot in the tourney and made it to the championship game before getting whipped by Duke 71-51, finishing at 25-9. The next season, with all of them returning to school, they go 31-4, beating Kentucky in the final four and again making it to the championship game before Webber called the infamous timeout that eventually cost them the game (where they lost by 6 to Carolina)..I believe experience DOES play a factor..I used to watch a lot of Michigan back then, and they were a totally different, more mature team in the second year than they were the first..maturity on this level means a LOT.