Notre Dame 70, Michigan 63
[Joseph Dressler/MGoBlog]
A five-minute scoring drought. A struggling star player. Iffy post play and equally iffy substitution patterns.
Michigan charged out to an early lead against Notre Dame and controlled much of the game. In the end, however, a familiar set of problems cost the Wolverines the game and capped the season in unfortunately fitting fashion.
Zak Irvin couldn't recreate his recent late-game magic, missing the potential game-tying three-pointer from the top of the key after a discombobulated final possession. Irvin finished the game 4/16 from the field and 1/9 from long range. Derrick Walton temporarily broke out of his shooting slump with a 4/7 first half and looked on his way to a great all-around game; he crashed to a halt in the second, going 0/6 from the field over the final 20 minutes.
The short version, via FiveThirtyEight.
For Notre Dame, forwards Zach Auguste and Bonzie Colson each went 4/5 from the field. Michigan's best counter to them in the post, Moe Wagner, hit all three of his shots but played only eight minutes; a questionable charge call for his fourth foul swung the momentum and quite possibly the game in favor of the Irish. The foul negated a Wagner layup that would've given Michigan a two-point lead with 5:39 to play; when Wagner finally reentered with 1:01 on the clock, Notre Dame had a three-point lead and the ball. In the interim, Mark Donnal blew a critical layup.
Clutch late shots by VJ Beachem (game-high 18 points, 7/7 FG) on the perimeter and Colson in the paint gave the Irish the margin they needed to advance. Michigan will be left to wonder: What if John Beilein gave Wagner a longer leash or at least played him ahead of Ricky Doyle? What if Irvin and Walton could play well in the same game? What if MAAR shifted to the point instead of sticking at the two while the team went two scoreless minutes with Andrew Dakich running the offense? What if that official called a block? We now have a long offseason to ponder the answers.
On the plus side, Michigan didn't lose to a 15-seed today.
Maybe lose a scholarship. I would bet anything that they get Marshall. The NCAA issue cost Pitino his chance to name a successor. Marhsall is the top choice of Louisville donors. I'd be shocked if he's not there within the next 2 years.
I do think Stevens ends up in college again, but that would take our donors not viewing football as the only thing that matters.
Where is the genesis of the perception our "donors" don't care? Beilein is the 6th highest paid coach in the country, the basketball complex just got a 100 million dollar renovation, and the AD charges a PSL for season tickets. WIth the Nike contract and a new TV deal on the way UofM is going tobe swimming in more money than they already are.
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http://www.sportingnews.com/photos/4631724-highest-paid-richest-college…. His extension and pay raise starts next year, and after all of the extensions, etc, this year, we'll be nowhere near the top 10. Beilien is to Michigan what Dantonio is to MSU.
Actually it is. What your shitty little link doesn't explain is that is from coches who MADE the NCAA tournament last year. Beilein didn't.
ANN ARBOR — John Beilein has said he wants his current job — head coach for University of Michigan basketball — to be his last job.
On Wednesday, another step was made to assure that's the case.
U-M announced in a press release that Beilein has received a two-year contract extension through the 2020-21 season, along with a pay raise from $2.45 million annually to $3.37 million.
In other words. Beilein is right behind Izzo (3.4 million) in terms of being one of the highest paid coaches in all of college basketball. Next time do your homework.
The extension starts next year. It's like giving Dantonio his playoff bump and counting it as this year. Izzo's base is what Beilein makes as a whole. I wish Michigan paid a top 6 salary, but we don't (though we should).
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No, it's not.
The bottom line which is what you seem to be missing is Beilein is one of the highest paid coaches in the country. Easily in the top 10. Move on you're wrong.
Beilein's contact is 20.2 over 6. Texas, who doesn't care about basketball, pays Shaka 22 over the same and that's based on basically one run at VCU. Louisville, with an athletic budget half of ours, gave Pitino, just a few months before we extended Beilein, a 50 million dollar contract over 10 with a 7 million retention in 2017.
The top, for example, Calapari's was 52 over 7. I don't know how else to show you that we aren't even close.
March 19th, 2016 at 11:33 AM ^
Are you fucking kidding me? Here is a list of the tournament coaches LAST YEAR and their total compensation packages. As you can see Beilein would slot in at #7 overall at 3.37 million dollars/year tied with Thad Matta. The only coaches in the entire country who make more moeny than John Beilein are Calipari, Coach K, Pitino, Izzo, Bill Self, and Sean Miller (barely).
So please, next time do your research before you come at me with this shit.
http://sports.usatoday.com/ncaa/salaries/mens-basketball/coach/
How do they work?
Yes, I understand that on the yearly annual salary alone it is close. Beilien is the third highest paid coach in the Big Ten after Izzo and Matta. He'll presumably be 4th after Crean's run this year. Turgeon is also due for a big extension. This isn't that difficult to understand.
We wouldn't allow that in football (though Harbaugh only wanted 5 million, so that changes the calculus a little bit). We shouldn't allow it in basketball either. That is my only point. Beilien has been great in rebuilding the program. When it is time to hire his replacement, I hope we're willing to pay whatever it takes to have the best coach at least in the Big 10, which will take us approaching basketball the same way we approach football, especially from our donors.
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because having a piece of shit coach like pitino would be good for michigan. unbelievable.
Where in the hell is this coming and where did I say he would be? We're talking about coaching salaries you fucking fool.
should calm down man. Most of your crew realized that this team rallied down the stretch, came through in the clutch with their backs against the wall mutiple times and fell a little short on Friday. We played a pretty good team and a much higher seeded team coming off an Elite 8 run and played them down to the wire. Many of the key contributors are underclassmen and developing and we have a good (not great but good) class coming in. Teske is a rim protected and we have not had too many of those. There is promise for next year. The second half of the ND game was unfortunate, Beilein did not make some adjustments that he should have. This team lost a lot to injury and came back to give us something to care about in March and were one scoring drought away from a good shot at the Sweet 16. They will improve in the off-season and be a highly competitive team in the BIG next year and a tournament lock. Sky not falling.
March 21st, 2016 at 11:09 AM ^
If you're counting on Jon Teske to solve the big man problem Michigan oh so clearly has you're going to be in for a wrold of surprise. Neither he or Davis are ready to play next year.
We had the game won until we choked it away. Wisconsin lost 4 starters including two first round draft picks and the NPOY and are in the elite 8. I don't want to hear what we lost the recruiting needs to get better and we need to start reloading. Period.
Who on tis team improved this year? Marr, maybe? Everyone else took a massive step back.
I don't see how this team is much better next year just because they are a year older.
March 21st, 2016 at 11:22 AM ^
teams take a while to click. Nobody on this team except for Walton and Irvin had NCAA tourney experience and even they were no more than limited role players when they were in it before. The BIG tourney along with the First Four and the ND game was a long stretch of "win or go home" basketball that none of them had experienced and they were up for it. I would not call the ND game a choke, I would call it a tough loss to a good, experienced team who had been through the grind of the tournament and was one step better than Michigan.
Duncan Robinson hit some huge clutch shots in the BIG tourney and after, Cam Chatman hit a game winning 3 pointer that got us into the tournament, Derrick Walton displayed court awareness and grit at the point that nobody had seen, Mo Wagner is up and coming and showed flashes of great play, MAAR is a capable rounded scorer who is going to be around for two more years, Irvin hit numerous huge shots that either kept us in games or outright won them for us, we showed signs of competence in the 1-3-1 trap and caused teams some confusion with it. In the meantime, Simpson was named Mr. Basketball and the "cadillac" of BIG basketball programs gagged to Middle Tennessee state in their "win it all" year.
It became clear, oh I don't know, by the first hafl of the Xavier game that this team had a long way to go and was not going to win any championships this year. Any hope that this could be a really good season died when Caris and Spike went down. Our backup at point was Andrew Dakich, and no that was not due to recruiting, it was due to injury.
All things considered, this was a much better March than I expected in December and I do think better days are on the horizon. You may not, I get it, but I think it is time for the tirade to end. Not trying to start shit, just sayin.
If our donors treated basketball like football, which they should, we'd be able to hire whomever we wanted. It's about will and fear that shady basketball recruiting might cause an investigation into football.
After 5 years im officially at zero points. Mostly because of this post from the game thread. Strange enough I am locked from making new threads but sound a lot like the front page above. Jeez its tough biz around here.
"Beilein is a good coach..
He is the one that has done so many things for our team. From big ten championships to final four to even having us in the right place at half of this game. Hear me out please. He absolutely needs a strong willed assistant that tells him obvious things that he needs to hear so he doesnt ruin the great things he has built.
1. Play wagner huge minutes. If he fouls out then thats what happens but wasting 25 minutes on the bench is much much worse than fouling out with 5 minutes left.
2. Second half they were man right? Maar every time with the ball. He is your new darius morris. Remember him? Yeah when irvin, walton, robinson all become spot up shooters this roster is damn good.
3. Doyle and donnal are like alarms. Break glass incase of emergency. Thats it, they are bad.
4. Autobench has robbed you of this game and the championship. New rule only two things can sit someone- the fourth foul or the refs. THATS IT! Try it Donnal on the floor was a choice make it a worse case.
5. You worst sub needs to be replaced with a tall guy. If it means terrible wagner instead of supee dakich so be it. Wagner could handle the expectations of a dakich i promise.
Coach let someone save you from you."
Everyone is at zero points. It's a glitch.
thank you. I went from whatever to 75 last week then saw 0 and figured I was nuked.
Lol good heads up and thank you.
March 19th, 2016 at 10:59 AM ^
People who think Michigan had a great chance to beat SFAustin, probably never watched them play this year. Walkup would have had a field day against our D.
Man, these guys were within a possession at the end of the game of having a great chance to reach the sweet 16. Beat a 6-seed with a crippled team minus its NBA first-rounder and senior point guard, after already winning a tournament game. Just didn't quite go our way against a good team.
But here, yeah, Ace is super disappointed. Must be sad. Honestly, this schtick gets old.
This team exceeded reasonable expectations. To have it framed in this way is stupid. I guess you think UM should have been a top ten team this year? Man. Just stop.
I've defended Beilein A LOT this year, but your post is almost equally ludicrous. This team didn't exceed reasonable expectations. I think considering the injuries (and possibly throw Doyle in there), it was probably a little bit lower than what I would have expected.
But yes, sometimes Brian and Ace are annoyingly down. Every recap really just complains about the team. Might as well pull a Brian after an OSU game and not even write one. I've been going to UMhoops more this season.
I could´ve done without the 15 seed reference too. I´d rather read about Michigan than just troll MSU.
What gets old are the Michigan fans who love them some moral victories and always are talking about "next year."
Losing in the first round didn't exceed anyone's expectations. If it did, why the hell are we paying our coach 3.4 million dollars a year?
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when you lose one player in football you can still be successful. when you lose your best pre-season all american player in basketball it hurts a helluva lot more. UM makes the sweet 16 with a healthy levert, let alone a spike to go with it.
As in Levert's leg and Spike's hips?
March 19th, 2016 at 12:18 PM ^
March 19th, 2016 at 12:34 PM ^
Thank you ib - not sure why posters want to make excuses all the time (especially the circular logic above).
dismissed Rasheed Sulaimon. He averaged 7.5 points per game. He wasn't one of their top players. They won the national championship, but it was primarily because they had a top 2 recruiting class that put three true freshman in the NBA.
March 19th, 2016 at 11:36 AM ^
A healthy Levert isn't going to suddenly help Mark Donnal make layups or play defense.
Center recruiting has been an abomination. I can't believe John Beilein played Donnal 29 minutes last night and Wagner only 8. Wagner had 1 foul in the first half and started the 2nd half on the bench when ND just erased our entire lead in a matter of minutes.
Beilein got his ass out coached and his stubborness to lay Donnal all year instead of Wagner bit this team in the ass.
No, we wouldn't. And secondly OSU is losing all but 6 starters in football next year. They're going to reload because that's what big boy programs do.
I'm baffled why people continue to defend this guy.
You say some of the most context blind, stupid shit I've ever read. You truly have it down to an art form.
March 21st, 2016 at 11:11 AM ^
When you can't argue anything I've posted, resort to petty personal attacks.
Go sit on Beilein's lap and tell him what a great coach he is. 7 out of 9 years he's either missed the tournament or failed to get past the first weekend.
Things are just peachy though!
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March 19th, 2016 at 12:09 PM ^
March 19th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^
There were 68 teams in this year's NCAA Tournament, and Michigan is 1-1. That's what it is and the way it will be in the record books. Now if you want to start counting it in some personal way, that's your perogative, but if you're going to be consistant, then Michigan's BTT record this year was 1-1, not 2-1 like the record books will show.
March 19th, 2016 at 12:19 PM ^
Fair point in terms of the actual record books. I was responding to the post that was like yay, we won a tourney game! And then went on to say we "beat" ND and "almost made it" to the Sweet 16, neither of which are true at all.
It was a play in game - we won, I get it. I just don't think we can pound our chest about winning a play in game. Saying mich won a tourney game sounds like someone is taking about winning the round of 64, because only 8 teams actually get a chance to win a play in game, and most would rather not have to.
The B1G tourney has byes, which is different than play-ins, in my mind.
What is it with Refs calling game-changing fouls on us with 5:00 minutes left in NCAA tournament games?
I'm tired of seeing Irvin shoot like shit, play ZERO defense and dog-it up and down the court. I'd like Harbaugh to give him (and most of the rest of the team) a motivational attitude adjustment.
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