{"id":605461,"date":"2026-02-16T01:09:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605461\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T01:09:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T01:09:22","slug":"survey-results-fans-have-championship-expectations-for-michigan-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/605461\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey Results: Fans have championship expectations for Michigan Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Earlier this week, we asked fans what would constitute a good season for Michigan Men\u2019s Basketball. The results are in, and fans have the highest expectations.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1200\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fff969a1cb8aa678608d332f92a9617a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">48% of those surveyed believe it\u2019s a National Championship for Michigan or bust<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">27% said making the Final Four<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">23% said reaching the National Championship<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Just 8% voted, making the Elite Eight<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Michigan is currently 24-1 on the season and 14-1 in Big Ten action. The Wolverines are currently ranked No. 2 but are primed to be No. 1 after picking up wins against Northwestern (87-75) and UCLA (86-56) this week. Michigan made the Sweet 16 last season, head coach Dusty May\u2019s first year on the job, but the expectations are heightened in year No. 2 \u2014 Michigan fans, based on our poll, expect a deep postseason run, culminating with a National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier this week, we asked fans what would constitute a good season for Michigan Men\u2019s Basketball. The results&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,21530,2048,1043,2477,231,772,1544,13058,3549],"class_list":{"0":"post-605461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-evanston","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-michigan-wolverines","13":"tag-national-championship","14":"tag-ncaa","15":"tag-ncaa-basketball","16":"tag-ncaab","17":"tag-northwestern-wildcats","18":"tag-yaxel-lendeborg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116077643471917194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}