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The national player of the year for michigan coming in. but he had a rough night. only one of eight from the field. the rest of the michigan fresh five, as they're called, instead of the fab five, had to pick up the slack. it was basically a team effort. but michigan let syracuse back in by missing several free throws. in the end, michigan is the winner knocking off syracuse and jim boeheim is beaten by the person that he mentored john beline. he was 0 for 9. his first win last night on his first trip to the final four. so, michigan gets back to the final game for the first time in 20 years. t...

Seed louisville had to rally from 12 points down to squeak past number nine wichita state. and michigan barely fended off syracuse. >> it was a close game the whole game. i was telling the guys the whole time syracuse is a really challenging team and they're going to go on runs. a lot of people will crack under pressure. when you're in that type of situation. >> just for us to be on that last ten seconds try to get a stop when we needed it, it was big for our team. i know we grew from that. >> i just kept telling our guys, look, guys, this is a dog fight tonight. it's not an offensive game. it...

Syracuse for chris's sake. >> that was bad. >> take us through what happened last night in the ncaa tournament. i didn't get to see a lot of it because we were actually having dinner with my one friend in the world, mark mclaughlin and his wife cindy. what happened? >> well, they lost. do we need to say anymore? number one seed syracuse lost to butler? >> to duke, to ken? they had to lose to a good team. >> butler. a scrappy bunch out of indianapolis. they were up pretty billing big in the first half. syracuse came back -- >> the coach is 12 years old. >> he is. he is. he's a kid. it was one o...