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Niyo: UM’s Matthews benefits from Beilein re-education

Wichita — You go to college to get an education. You go to Michigan for something else, though, at least if you’re on a basketball scholarship.

It’s a re-education, for everyone in John Beilein’s program. And when you ask junior Charles Matthews about that learning curve, about what it’s like for a once-coveted recruit out of Chicago — a guy who started his collegiate career at Kentucky, no less — to be asked to forget much of what he already knows, well, first you get a laugh.

Then you get that look, the one that lets you know it’d take hours to give you a full accounting.