Michigan head coach John Beilein knows his team missed an opportunity to advance deeper in the NCAA Tournament this year, perhaps even to the Final Four. He’s also moved on, concentrating on the future.

The freshmen have arrived, and though they’ve only had a few hours of summer practice with them, Beilein is encouraged.

“They’ve got great attitudes, on and off the court,” Beilein said.

That’s helped put the disappointment of a one-point loss to Oregon in the Sweet 16 behind him. U-M was in good shape, needing just to rebound a missed free throw with a minute or so remaining to be in complete control up three, but it wasn’t mean to be.

Oregon, of course, survived a last-second missed shot by Derrick Walton Jr. and thrashed Kansas in an Elite Eight game to reach the Final Four.

“I am over it,” Beilein said. “I haven’t watched the video yet … that will probably come some time when I’m up north later in the summer. I’ll look at it, cut it, make notes on it.

“It’s hard. I happened to watch parts of it the other day with someone. They just happened to be watching, so there’s a clip, I’m looking at it … what’s next? What’s next?You just king of get depressed. I don’t need that now. I need that when I know I can do something about it immediately … ‘let’s go out and correct this.’ We’re up by three and going to have the ball with a minute left to go after a missed foul shot, they rebound and it’s a one-point game.”

But they also won some games that way, he noted, including a victory over Purdue in the Big Ten Tournament the Boilermakers failed to close out at the line. They were so in tune with each other, though, that they would have felt confident they could have beaten Kansas in Kansas City, too, he added.

Regardless, the run to the title and the last 15 games are something Beilein will never forget.

“As we went, people came from all over the place,” he sad. “You hear our fans everywhere. The more we’re in there [in the tournament], the more they set their plans for March. I have no complaints about type of support we get at home or on the road.

“D.C., for a tournament game, that was a really unique experience to win that thing in that environment.”

Wilson Plays Well In Summer League Opener

Shortly after D.J. Wilson inked his rookie contract with the Milwaukee Bucks he started and played 23 minutes, scoring 11 points on 4 of 13 shooting in a summer league loss to Cleveland. He missed both of his three-point attempts but added five rebounds, two assists and two blocks. He also had a posterizing dunk with his left hand after a steal.

Wilson shot extremely well down the stretch for the Wolverines, including 85.5 percent from the line. He closed out games down the stretch with huge free throws in the NCAA Tournament.

“That had been an issue in practice,” Beilein said. “He never shot them in games for two years, but that was an issue in practice when we put him on the line in pressure situations.

Gradually, his stroke from long range became so consistent his stroke from the foul line followed along.”

And it helped him earn millions as the Buck’s first round pick, No. 17 overall.