“…or compare UNC’s paltry men’s titles to Michigan…14 for UNC and 33 for Michigan…”
Most of Michigan’s men’s football titles were won in the early years of the 20th century. Many of them are more than a century old. Very old news from a bygone, racially segregated era when there were very few teams competing.
Michigan’s last undisputed NCAA football championship was in 1948. In the over 70 years since, their lone NCAA title was a DISPUTED one in 1997 - Nebraska actually won more games that year.
So Michigan hasn’t done very well in the modern era - having lost in the Rose Bowl a dozen times since 1970 and getting beaten by Ohio State about every year.
Michigan has won only one NCAA Men’s basketball championship tournament in its history - 30 years ago in 1989.
UNC has won six - 1957, 1982, 1993, 2005, 2009 and 2017.