It's always dangerous for one person to speak for his entire group, but I'll take the risk and say Michigan fans aren't changed. We still, on averge, have an attitude toward basketball that is somewhere in the spectrum of mild enthusiasm/apathy/dislike, w/r/t the sport itself. We're also avid enough about Michigan to want everything good to happen to it and adore hype, in general. Deep tourney runs check off these boxes. This isn't new or surprising. And you know this. The magnitude of Michigan obnoxiousness is exponents-upon-exponents higher when they have a Top 5 football program. This basketball giddiness is a drop in the bucket by comparison. Sure, it's sincere happiness, but it pales in magnitude and (unlike the high tide football fervor which lasts 365), it will inevitably flee sooner than a month after the tourney. They are great and fun to watch, are getting lots of press, and John Beilein always makes the university look good. The end.
