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Michigan basketball is 40 minutes from immortality yet again

Michigan center Moritz Wagner speaks to the media during a news conference on Sunday, April 1, 2018, in San Antonio. Video by Nick Baumgardner/DFP

SAN ANTONIO — Five years ago in Atlanta, John Beilein's upstart bunch boarded a bus headed for immortality.

One way or another, that basketball team was going to end its final night of the season as something no one would ever forget. The confetti was going to pour down from the ceiling no matter what.

It could either heal or sting.