{"id":699274,"date":"2026-04-05T08:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699274\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T08:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:11:38","slug":"michigan-basketball-beats-arizona-in-ncaa-tournament-media-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699274\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan basketball beats Arizona in NCAA Tournament media reactions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2026, 12:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Well, it was supposed to be the game of the century in college basketball, but Michigan basketball wasn&#8217;t about that life. The Wolverines led wire-to-wire against fellow 1-seed Arizona, in what ended up being a 91-73 drubbing that, honestly, wasn&#8217;t even that close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The game was so lopsided that as we compiled media reactions, we didn&#8217;t simply look for what was posted after the Final Four matchup was done &#8212; because most of the best reactions came in with half of the second half remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Nonetheless, there were a ton of big reactions now that Michigan has ousted Arizona from the NCAA Tournament. Here are our favorites from the national media, including a few from some notable former Wolverines.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_gl gnt_em__el\" href=\"http:\/\/wolverineswire.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/sports\/college\/wolverines\/mens-basketball\/2026\/04\/04\/halftime-gallery-michigan-basketball-dominating-arizona-through-20\/89473011007\/\" data-t-l=\"\u2691g:l|l|c|view gallery:inline promo\" aria-label=\"View Gallery - The best pictures from the first half of the Final Four: Michigan vs. Arizona\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/89472971007-usatsi-28662230.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\"\/><\/a>Jeff BorzelloStephen A. SmithJosh PateJohn FantaJ.J. McCarthyAri WassermanNicole AuerbachSteve DeaceSeth DavisDan WetzelMatt FortunaJake ButtBig CatBig Ten BenScott Bell<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">(This is posting word-for-word what an Ohio State beat reporter posted when May was hired, for those who aren&#8217;t terminally online.)<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:49|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a>Clay TravisDan WolkenMSU alum Jemele HillJon RothsteinOptaStatsDarren RovellJeff GoodmanFreezing Cold TakesMSU beat reporter Graham CouchBlain CrainEvan MiyakawaScott HansonPete FiutakJay WilliamsDave Portnoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 5, 2026, 12:01 a.m. ET Well, it was supposed to be the game of the century in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[72400,7,84344,73480,72404,72458,72580,74315,73717,73718,72456,73830,72666,72483,72526,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-699274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-sstssportscollegewolverinesmens-basketball","11":"tag-sstsnmens-basketball","12":"tag-tagbasketball","13":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-football","14":"tag-tagbig-ten-conference-mens-basketball","15":"tag-tagmichigan-state-university","16":"tag-tagmichigan-wolverines","17":"tag-tagmichigan-wolverines-mens-basketball","18":"tag-tagncaa-big-ten-conference","19":"tag-tagncaa-mens-basketball-tournament","20":"tag-tagoverall-negative","21":"tag-tagsmg-listicle","22":"tag-tagsmg-timely","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699274","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=699274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}