Michigan Has Given Nine Different Opponents Their Worst Loss of the Season
Michigan whupped Nebraska by 36 points tonight, which was by far the Corrnhuskers' worst loss of the season. The committee should take note that U-M has given NINE different teams their worst loss of the year:
Marquette - 18 points
SMU - 22 points
Kennesaw State - 27 points
Central Arkansas - 44 points
Maryland Eastern Shore - 49 points
Indiana - 30 points
Michigan State - 29 points
Purdue - 12 points
Nebraska - 36 points
When we beat you, we beat you BAD.
We've beaten OSU's last 3 NCAA Tournament teams but haven't beaten their last 2 NIT teams.
lol
Actually we've played very well for about six weeks now, but happen to have lost a couple of tough games in the final minute. We could very easily be on an 8-game winning streak right now.
Take away the phantom foul with bench T (4 points) in Minn and that's a different game.
I like how this team got hot late. Win and advance now.
I would like to think we've shaken off the inconsistency. Both of our most recent losses were on the road, to tourney-bound teams, in very close games. They were heartbreakers, but not head-scartchers like the loss to OSU.
in the tourrney, if you have the choice. When they heat up, they can really heat up. Even a good team (and the truly dominant teams seem quite few and far beteen this year) could drop one if they catch Michigan when they are on.
There's a (reserve) member of one of the all-time great backcourts.
he was my favorite bad boy as a kid and I tried to model my shot after his. A two handed zero arc shot. I thought it was awesome. Little did I know I was greatly damaging my already lacking basketball skills.
Some factoids about how much we own Nebraska-
- Michigan is 8-0 against Nebraska since NEB joined the B1G
- Michigan is the only team in the conference period that Nebraska has not beaten since joining
- All-time, we have shot 48% from 3 point distance at Pinnacle Bank Arena
- We gave Nebraska their first-ever loss at Pinnacle Bank Arena
- Nebraska hasn't beaten us in 53 seasons.
Also we scored the most points by a Nebraska opponent in that arena tonight and tied the arena 3-pointer record.
Series history
| Date | Result | Location |
| 12/28/1949 | W 67-65 | Kansas City, MO |
| 12/10/1955 | W 77-71 | Yost Field House |
| 12/8/1956 | L 60-73 | NU Coliseum |
| 12/7/1957 | W 81-57 | Yost Field House |
| 12/6/1963 | W 80-55 | Yost Field House |
| 12/12/1964 | L 73-74 | NU Coliseum |
| 3/6/1980 | W 76-69 | Crisler Arena (NIT) |
| 12/28/1992 | W 88-73* | Honolulu, HI |
| 2/8/2012 | W 62-46 | Devaney Center |
| 1/9/2013 | W 62-47 | Crisler Center |
| 1/9/2014 | W 71-70 | Pinnacle Bank Arena |
| 2/5/2014 | W 79-50 | Crisler Center |
| 1/27/2015 | W 58-44 | Crisler Center |
| 1/23/2016 | W 81-68 | Pinnacle Bank Arena |
| 1/14/2017 | W 91-85 | Crisler Center |
| 3/5/2017 | W 93-57 | Pinnacle Bank Arena |
Memorable finish to that game. Walton, as a freshman, got the game winning basket but failed to convert the and 1.
Nebraska somehow missed 3 tap ins at the basket and we won 71-70.
Whoa Derrick Walton hit a half courter in that game? Really is proof that you forget all the good stuff and just remember the negatives
Also, goddamn look how much passion that team had. I actually thought the 2013-14 team might've been better than the 2012-13 team. I think if they had McGary they would've won it all
Kentucky misses that prayer and we might have anyway. That was the year Shabazz Napier's UConn won.
Those unis looked a lot better than what we are wearing now with the NotreDame-gold numbers.
GRIII was a beast.
Don't miss Petaway.
I expect you will win an awful lot of games. Wow.
Actually we shot 52% from downtown. But in this day and age that's not that unusual (although to do it on 27 attempts is impressive).
All season long, the real X factor has been how we shoot inside the arc. When we shoot well from 2, we win, period. Today we shot 20-27 from 2, a blistering 74%. You'll never lose when that happens.
48% is our all-time total at that arena.
We're 31-65 from 3 in three games that we've played since it opened.
I'm sure there're some SEC assholes lying in wait for us, but yeah, I'm on the bandwagon. GO BLUE!
If you like volatility, this might be one of your favorite Michigan teams. They could win a few games or lose by 15 in the first round.
I don't know why people keep saying this. We've lost only once in our last 20-some games by double figures.
We're competitive in pretty much every game. Our variance has been more that we alternate decisive wins with narrow losses. KenPom ranks us 308th in the country in "luck."
Really hoping we pull in Mohamed Bamba to join Pool and Livers and we can all finally shut up about how Beilein can't recruit.
I think the man is a coaching savant when it comes to the offensive side of the ball, but have been very critical of his defenses (soft) and recruiting (won't get his hands the slightest bit dirty).
That said, he has once again delivered an invite to the dance this year, won us 2 B1G titles since being in Ann Arbor, along with the championship game and elite 8 classic against Kentucky.
Pull in this recruiting class and continue to progress on the defensive side of the ball, and I'll happily eat crow. Would be nice to be so wrong about such a good guy.
Michigan has built its reputation upon doing things the right way, regardless of the shortcuts other teams have taken. Steve Fisher's blind eye led to the lost decade of Michigan basketball and a stain that still hasn't completely been erased.
I'm quite proud to see that Michigan can employ the first-ever head of the NCAA Men's Basketball Ethics Committee and can still play competitive basketball.
Many people underestimate the role that random chance plays in sports (and, indeed, in everyday life). This team is about five bounces / bad calls / gusts of the air conditioner away from another Big Ten title and a top-four NCAA seed. (@Iowa, @Minn in OT; @NW; @Wisconsin or vs. OSU, vs. Va Tech). Beilein is recruting just fine.
I would take losing with honor over winning dirty any day of the week. Beilein has built a team that can go one better and win with honor. I'm not saying Michigan will win the rest of their games this season -- but, the way they're playing right now, they can be competitive with any team in the country.
More than happy with the current level of winning when it is done clean. People around here don't realize how good we have it.
What the hell does the Ethics Comittee do? They sure don't stop teams from cheating. Belein being the head of the committee is constantly mentioned but what does that really mean?
Call me cynical, but from everything I hear about the influence of AAU and camp "handlers," HS basketball recruiting is far dirtier than any other sport. Which means a significant percentage of "elite" HS recruits will never seriously consider Michigan.
McGary had ties to players who were already on the team. Sam Webb said last week that the chances to sign Bamba are slim to none.
Sam just talked about Bamba this morning... there's some recruiting guy who's been in consistent contact with Bamba who told Sam that Michigan is legitimately in the mix, so Sam said he is not quite as dismissive as he was previously. However, he still is saying to not get our hopes up.
Sam's opinion now is that Texas might be the real leader, since Shaka Smart was Bamba's under-18 coach for some event or camp.
I hadn't heard the recruiting round up this morning. I was at a coworker's desk talking to her about a security guard who is her latest stalker. I forgot to get back to listen to the radio. It was nice of Sam to go back to update.
Based on your logic, I hope you don't own anything that says "Michigan Basketball 2012 Big Ten Champions" since apparently all that matters is Big Ten Tournament seed. Those "2012 Big Ten Tournament #2 Seed" t-shirts hanging in your closet probably look pretty sweet, though.
And let that be a goddamned lesson to you, Maryland Eastern Shore, we "shore" as shit ain't messing around with you
Why are we an 8 seed behind MSU & Iowa?
MSU 3-1
Iowa 2-1
Mich 1-2 (guessing on the other records bc I don't follow Spartyball)
MSU: 3-1 [beat M, NW, Iowa; lost to M]
NW: 2-1 [beat Iowa, M; lost to MSU]
Iowa: 1-2 [beat M; lost to NW, MSU]
M: 1-3 [beat MSU; lost to Iowa, MSU, NW]
I know there's not really any good way to decide a 4-way tiebreak, but we really got shafted on this one. Only played Iowa and Northwestern on the road. MSU got Iowa and NW at home. Then NW got Iowa at home in a single play.
It is hard damn work making you look so bad!
I saw this stat last night actually and it only adds to the things which makes certain aspects of this season so bewildering to me sometimes, but for as much as we can find to gripe about (and rightfully so much of the time, I think), I would like to believe that we can mostly agree that this team was actually quite good when it was all functioning at the same time.
When the season begins, I'd have no problem with the Big Ten putting down Michigan vs Illinois as the 8/9 game in the conference tournament as an assumption.
I don't remember the last time Michigan didn't actually play Illinois in the 8/9. Oddly enough, I've been watching this tournament since the inception, and I feel like Michigan's played maybe 3 of the teams in the conference (Northwestern, Penn State, Illinois)