Mark Snyder

Detroit Free Press

Michigan basketball has reached the Sweet 16 and stands alone in at least one area: U-M has staunchly refused to use a mascot over the years.

But CBS wasn't swayed by that.

The network produced a caricature of the Sweet 16 teams with their mascots, in a manner of the old WWF's "Rock 'N' Wresting."

What did they use for Michigan? A dancing Jim Harbaugh wearing a No. 1 basketball jersey and waving a foam finger.

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