Michigan v NJIT open thread

Turns out a good efg % can't always save terrible defense and rebounding.

Pretty sure he forgot what to do after getting that rebound. Whoops.

that was a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE loss. NJIT is absolutely horrendous at basketball. 

Wow! Didn't even turn the game on til 4.3 secs left. How the Hell did that happen? We better win the B1G, this loss will be discussed if we have to be at-large!

Well that sucked

spike and irvin were reading their press clippings a bit too much this week.

For a long time now in football, all I've asked for is efficiency - at least beat the fucking overmatched teams. That's really Square One. Cannot believe it has spread to basketball.

NJTI was the 305th ranked basketball team in the country according to Sagarin. Yeah. Stuff like this can happen, it's not going to ruin a season.

Wtf Belein?

Other than Levert nobody showed up. Irvin had an off night but there is no excuse to allow them to shoot nearly 60%.

U-M should have been fouling early in the shot clock and not letting ITT run it down on that final possession. When you're the supposedly better team you want to extend the game as long as possible in hopes that your superior talent will finally shine through.

Wow, just got the notification of the score. Thank god I missed this one.

Hopefully this just proves to be our "Charlotte" game, we rebound from it, learn our mistakes, and move on. That was a pretty bad loss last year, and the season turned out alright. I'm confident it still will.

i wonder if a chalkboard is being broken in the locker room right now.

I'm fortunately not freaking out over this loss, but man was that pathetic. Certainly the far and away most embarrassing loss since we've become relevant again. You're not going to win very many games when you have a 7 minute drought in the middle of the 2nd half, regardless of the opponent.

Games like this Michigan needs to get the ball down low to Doyle. It is inexcusable that Michigan did not feed Doyle and Donnal in the low post when NJIT was sending a 6'5 C out there to guard them. Inexcusable.

Why must we be the athletic program that suffers these ridiculous losses? Football, now hoops? I know that march only matters, but good lord there is no excuse for this hot garbage today. I'm trying not to jump off the bridge on this, but it's damn tempting

Come to a game with the wrong mental attitude and this is what you get. Kids can't feel good about themselves. Beilein knew this was gonna be a let down game, that's why he was adamant DW play.

No worries, this won't matter in March.  The team had been playing with fire and finally got burned. 

On the bright side, the 2016 5 * will be knocking down doors after this

Not quite App St but close.

Michigan lost to Alaska Anchorage in 1988 and won the the NCAA title. Shit like this happens.

They should be getting on warm gear and hats and meeting the stairs in the big house for the next hour.

but defense is effort and I didn't see it.

I'm more disappointed in some of the vitriol spewed in this thread than I am in the result of the game. 

At least this bad L will go (somewhat) under the radar, given that we're still in college football season, and on championship Saturday. Eh? Certainly won't go unnoticed by your MSU or OSU pals, of course.

Learn, and move on. No, this is nothing CLOSE to App. State, so please...stop making that comparison.

Two numbers: the obvious one is NJIT's 58.7% shooting but the other big one is Michigan only had 8 assists.  No defensive effort or ball movement and that will happen.