I'll give my two cents worth. Some of this may have been touched on.
I'm stoked at the hustle on defense. We seem to move our feet well and the physicality behind rebounding is awesome. We may be undersized at times, but our group can get boards. Kane will continue to pose match up problems. I'm glad he came around after he made some careless turnovers and stepped up on the FT line. It looks like Naz could be the go to guy on 3's when we need him. Most importantly of all, Ejim is such an asset on this team. We would not have won without him and thats easy to see. Did he get even faster under the basket? His quickness has improved and is even harder to guard. His knee looked 100% to me. Niang came around when we absolutely needed him the most. He played smart the last 5 minutes of the game. I hope he stays out of foul trouble, but that's a long shot.
Some things I noticed we need to improve on: our transition D needs to get back a little quicker, although Michigan is a quick team. Our D did get more aggressive as the game got down to crunch time. I'd like to see us run the floor more, as we struggled in our half-court offense and seemed a bit lackluster when passing, causing turnovers. Our guards didn't seem to get that many open shots at times too, as the offense seemed stagnant. I'm not sure if were confused or just couldn't get open looks.
One thing that Michigan seemed to execute well was the backdoor cuts to the basket. Our help side always seemed to be late and they had that cut to the basket many times.
Those aren't even that big of problems and can be easily worked on. These guys are A LOT further than last year in team chemistry. I love the potential and can not wait for the Iowa/Iowa State game. Hawk fans should be a little worried.