Michigan just didn’t give up. No matter how hard the #4 Wolverines tried to overcome Kansas, the Jayhawks always had an answer.

Consistently down 10 points throughout the second half, the Michigan Wolverines kept plugging away behind Trey Burke and freshman Mitch McGary before overtaking the Jayhawks.

Chalk this one up to persistence. Well, persistence and having an amazing player like Burke quarterbacking your basketball team.

Burke was scoreless in the first half before going off for 23 points in the second half and overtime, all of which were crucial, but none more critical than when his Wolverines were down three points to the #1 seeded Jayhawks.

After Elijah Johnson misses the second of two free throws, watch as Burke hits a jump shot 30 feet from the basket. The basket would ultimately send the game into overtime.

With Kansas down two in overtime, the Jayhawks would have one more chance to tie or win, but Elijah Johnson would dribble down the clock to three seconds before passing the ball across court to Naadir Tharpe.

Tharpe would have to gather the ball 30 feet from the basket and was ultimately forced to shoot a rushed three pointer that would bounce off the backboard.

The Wolverines never gave up “We kept saying ‘let’s go, let’s go’ when we were down 11. We just had to get 4 or 5 stops.” Burke, the Big Ten Player of the Year,  told Craig Sager after the game.

With the win, Michigan advances to the Elite Eight and will play the winner of Florida and Florida Gulf Coast.