The No. 37 Michigan men’s tennis team is riding high right now after winning six of its last seven matches.

But it wasn’t all too long ago that the team had hit “rock bottom” according to its coach Bruce Berque.

During the middle stretch of their season, the Wolverines lost eight straight matches, with seven coming on the road.

The team lost four of those matches by a 4-3 margin.

Multiple players were losing points due to a lack of mental focus.

Additionally, the team struggled to win at the top spots in singles, and it looked as if the season was going to be a complete failure.

“A losing streak like that doesn’t give you a whole lot of reason for confidence,” Berque said. “Based on how our guys responded when they hit rock bottom in practice, we had a chance to turn it around.”

The road contest against Northwestern (6-4 Big Ten, 18-7 overall) on March 29 was where the team’s season finally turned around.

With the match knotted at three, sophomore Jason Jung delivered a win at the No. 1 singles position to clinch the fourth and deciding point when Michigan’s season needed it most. A loss could have possibly shut the door on the Wolverines trying to amass any positives this year.

But the victory was just what the doctor ordered.

“(Winning) had to start somewhere,” sophomore Chris Madden said. “We were hoping it was going to start a little bit earlier than that. In that match, Jung came back from a big deficit and from then on, he’s really started to roll and play well.”

With one win came another, and another – and soon the Wolverines (6-4,12-13) won a handful of victories.

The confidence started to come back. The competitive edge started to come back, and the focus started to come back.

“The key to our success lately is we haven’t had any competitive holes in the lineup,” Berque said. “We’re confident that each person on the court is going to compete and fight hard the whole time in singles and doubles. …Everyone’s just got to bust it on every court.”

Just this past Saturday, the team upset then-No. 11 Illinois at home by a 4-3 score. The team has done a complete 180 from the rocky March it endured to its recent success in the last few matches of the regular season.

The Wolverines enter today's Big Ten Tournament as the fourth seed against No. 5 Northwestern with an aura they didn’t have six weeks ago.

“We had the capability of doing what we’ve been doing the last seven matches all year,” junior Mike Sroczynski said. “It was just a question of getting everyone together and playing at a consistent level every match.”