Donald Wine

The backcourt matchups, if you think about the frontcourt of Michigan versus the frontcourt of Duke, it's pretty even.

They're two of the best frontcourts in the country.

If our backcourt can outmatch theirs with the length, with the defense, with the suffocating style of defense that we exhibit on guards...

And it's not just Damesar.

It will be Caleb Foster.

It will also be guys off the bench like Nick Kamenian.

You need those guys to be on their P's and Q's on defense because if they are, that can be the real difference in this game.

If you imagine that the front courts play each other to a draw,

our backcourt can be the difference in this game with their length, with Sar's ability to suffocate the ball handler or take somebody completely out of the game.

I think that is a very big thing to watch, and it's going to be fascinating to see how that transpires throughout the whole game.

Go ahead, Scott.

So I think it leads myself to the next big thing to watch.

You guys have mentioned their front court and how big and lengthy they are.

One thing Michigan doesn't do is keep guys in the game when they have two fouls.

And as Scott mentioned, it's because they have nine deep.

They're running so fast that there's no point in keeping a guy in with two fouls when you have a fully capable bench ready to come in at a moment's notice.

So can we get Lindenburg, Mara, or Johnson out of the game with foul trouble?

And in the case of the latter two, they will get into foul trouble.

Mara, I think, fouled out the other night against Purdue.

Morris Johnson fouled out the other night against Purdue.