Rolling Michigan transitions from 'offensive team' to 'winning team'

West Lafayette, Ind. — Five straight wins. Seven victories in the last eight games.

The Wolverines are, once again, playing as well as any team in the country and are looking like the same squad that stormed through the Bahamas three months ago.

But the way associate head coach Phil Martelli sees it, there’s a difference between Michigan then and now.

Isaiah Livers (Photo: Robin Buckson, Detroit News)“I thought in the Bahamas we looked like an offensive team,” Martelli said after Saturday’s win over Purdue at Mackey Arena. “Now I think we look like a winning team.

“There's a synergy here about being a winning team and expecting to win. In the Bahamas, we were literally just better offensively…