Predictions for Mich/IU bball

Indiana 75

Michigan 68

Isn't this in violation of the 12 hour rule?

Michigan 93
Indiana 92

Michigan 81

Indiana 70

Michigan - 79

Indiana - 77

Michigan 85-84. Hardaway hits at the buzzer.

Indiana 71
Michigan 69

All of us want to break our TVs after the game because we get called for fouls everytime we look at Zeller the wrong way

Michigan wins 88 - 81.  Stauskas leads the team with 27 points.

Indiana 86 - 81.  Michigan, the team with the fewest fouls called on it in the country this year inexpicably tuirns the game into "hack-a-Zeller on defense.  On offense Michigan, apparently not able to handle the pressure of the big game (I mean what other explanation could there be) commits several offensive fouls leading to Trey Burke sitting for long stretches in the game.

Afterwards Creen will credit the tough play of his team and their rising to the occasion while coach B points out that it was tough getting his normal rotations set with the early foul trouble Michigan got in. Nobody but Michigan fans will mention that the team committing the fewest fouls in the country got hit with over 20 in this game.

I think it will be a little lower scoring:

Michigan 66

Indiana 62

Gets calls, tough to win on road, especially if Morgan is not 100%. I don't think people realize how hard it is to win on a quality opponents home floor.

IU-74
UM-68

First, some summary comparison stuff for the board:

The numbers seem to bear out what this site and others have discussed for the last several days - keep the Hoosiers off the free throw line, mitigate offensive rebounds and find some way to dictate the flow of the game, and a win at Assembly Hall is definitely possible. How possible? Eh, Massey would say 50-50, which sounds about right for this game - whoever wins will likely not do so by more than a couple possessions. There is no game where we do not have a serviceable shot of winning, and if we can keep Indiana a little off-balance, I could see a grinding 76-73-ish victory for Michigan. 

I was asked by my wife if I would rather go to the superbowl tomorrow or Assembly hall tonight.  (hypothetically of course)

I said assembly hall.  Because we are going to win tonight, in OT  81-76

The crowd will be nuts, the refs will be influenced (I know, not much of a prediction there), but Michigan will hang on to win a nail biter. They will use their experience at OSU and Minnesota to their advantage. I think some of the players were a bit too amped up to start the game at OSU, then shifted to that deer-in-the-headlights reaction for several minutes as things spun out of control. I don't see that happening again.

Slam dunk contest.

GR3 vs. Tim Hardway, Jr.

In my opinion this is a must win. I live in Indiana and my roommate is a die hard IU fan. Life is rough down here....

IU 74 Michigan 72

Indiana is a great team and will be very tough to beat at home.  I like us at home and a neutral site, but beating them at Assembly will be a tall order.  I think we have a good chance to win but if I am making a prediction I would have to say a close loss.

Assembly Hall opened for the 1971-72 season, which was also Bob Knight's first season in Bloomington. According to the IU media guide, IU's record against ranked teams at Assembly Hall through the 2011-12 season is 104-58.

The lopsided nature of this record is almost entirely a function of Knight's career; since he was fired after the 1999-2000 season, the Hoosiers are 23-28 against ranked teams at Assembly Hall.

The record for ranked UM teams against IU teams (ranked and unranked) at Assembly Hall is 3-12 in favor of the Hoosiers. Of those three UM victories, one is against a ranked IU team, when #2 Michigan beat #15 IU during the 85-86 season.

IU has faced the #1 team in the country at Assembly Hall five times, coming away with a 2-3 record, with the most recent game in December 2011 which saw an unranked IU team beat #1 Kentucky.

Assembly Hall has never witnessed a game involving two teams as highly-ranked as today's tilt between #1 Michigan and #3 Indiana.

The meaning—and any predictive power—of these records is largely in the eye of the beholder. Focusing on the overall record of ranked teams at Assembly Hall ignores the fact that IU's record against ranked teams since Knight's departure is less than .500. Michigan has a miserable 5-32 record down there, but only 15 of those 39 Michigan teams was ranked going into the game in Bloomington. The 2011-12 Michigan team was the first ranked UM team to play in Assembly Hall since the 1997-98 season.

It's probably a mistake to conclude that IU's record in Assembly Hall is a mirage or a function of playing lots of lousy teams; the Hoosiers are 9-3 in Assembly Hall against perennial power Kentucky. And many have pointed out that home cooking when it comes to refereeing in the Big Ten is as pronounced at Assembly Hall as anywhere in the conference, if not the country. The Hoosier's game against then-#8 Minnesota is instructive; Indiana went to the free throw line 40 times, while the Gophers had all of 15 attempts. For that reason alone Michigan is logically the underdog, but maybe the most relevant and important fact about this game is that Indiana has never faced this Michigan team, which is easily the best we've had since at least the 1992-93 season. If we pull off a victory, it will be a significant milestone in Michigan basketball history and another feather in the cap for John Beilein.

Michigan 76 IU 71

61-55.

79-71. Zeller back to his chilly ways.

Rellford gets the tip, blazes down the court, slams it home.

From there, UM breezes.

Final score: 80-59 

Final picture:

70-67 UM

UM 64-57

Zeller gets into foul trouble which negates biased officials and we win a close one. Oladipo harasses Burke all night but GRIII steps up with a 20 and 10 performance.

Can weather the first 10 minutes, I think we'll win by 6. 79-73.

BTW- 4 minutes in and College Gamedays slobberfest for IU is already sickening.