{"id":503282,"date":"2026-03-30T07:26:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/dominican-yaxel-lendeborg-leads-michigan-beatdown-and-advances-to-the-ncaa-final-four\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T07:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T11:26:48","slug":"dominican-yaxel-lendeborg-leads-michigan-beatdown-and-advances-to-the-ncaa-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/basketball\/dominican-yaxel-lendeborg-leads-michigan-beatdown-and-advances-to-the-ncaa-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Yaxel Lendeborg leads Michigan beatdown and advances to the NCAA Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/h2>\n\n\nSANTO DOMINGO.<\/strong> \u2014 Dominican Yaxel Lendeborg had a stellar performance of 27 points to lead the Michigan Wolverines to a resounding 95-62 victory over the Tennessee Volunteers and secure their spot in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament.\n\n\n

You may be interested in<\/strong>: Luka Doncic is suspended for one game due to accumulation of technical fouls in the NBA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nLendeborg added seven rebounds and four assists, leading a dominant performance by Michigan, which defined the game from the first half with a 21-0 run that left Tennessee with no answer and set the course of the match.\n\nThe Dominican, son of former national team player Oscari Lendeborg, also made history for the university by becoming the program’s first player to score at least 23 points in three consecutive tournament games since Juwan Howard achieved it in 1994.\n\nMichigan, which now has a 35-3 record, advanced to its first Final Four since 2018 and its ninth in history. In the national semifinal it will face the Arizona Wildcats.\n\nPoint guard Elliot Cadeau had 10 assists and Morez Johnson Jr. added 12 points in the victory, which represented one of the most dominant of the season for the Wolverines, who have achieved multiple wins by a wide margin during the campaign.\n\nIn the defeat, Ja’Kobi Gillespie scored 21 points and Felix Okpara finished with 10 units and seven rebounds for Tennessee, who once again fell short of the Final Four.\n\nMichigan dominated on both sides of the court, shooting 51.8% from the field and limiting Tennessee to just 31.6%, reflecting total control of the match to secure their place in the prelude to the national championship.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANTO DOMINGO. \u2014 Dominican Yaxel Lendeborg had a stellar performance of 27 points to lead the Michigan Wolverines to a resounding 95-62 victory over the Tennessee Volunteers and secure their spot in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament. You may be interested in: Luka Doncic is suspended for one game due to accumulation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":503283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35743],"tags":[611,40231,41186],"class_list":["post-503282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26Vs","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/images-12-2.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Basketball"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/images-12-2.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}