Survive and Advance? Postgame Snowflakes and Tex/ASU Open Thread
Let's refrain from playing like that against anyone else in the tournament. Thank you
No snowflakes. Just win.
March 21st, 2014 at 12:38 AM ^
Wofford had one of the worst shooting performances I have ever seen.
We were very fortunate.
We're gonna be SO RESTED for the game Saturday.
Seriously though, good win in a slow, boring game.
Did anyone else notice Beilein coaching up Wofford's coach when they shook hands? It looked like he was giving him tips on how to defend the pick-n-roll or something.
I can't imagine thats actually what he was doing. I would not appreciate that if I was Wofford's coach. Kind of a dick thing to do.
It just looked funny. While he was shaking he was pointing at the floor and moving his hand like he was asking him about a play. It was an innocent thing and it happened to catch my eye.
He was probably complimenting one of their plays.
Defense looked worse to me. They shot 1-18 or something like that from 3, but they got whatever they wanted down low. Really don't want to play a team with a decent post presence or one that's hitting from 3.
March 21st, 2014 at 11:59 AM ^
But were they wide open because we were crowding the paint and daring them to shoot, ala craft? I'm not sure if we'll ever know, but I'm hoping that was the plan...
March 20th, 2014 at 10:52 PM ^
If you told we'd win by 17 this afternoon, I'd be fine. The only reason I'm a bit disappointed is because if you told me Wofford would shoot 1-19 from 3, I'd probably probably guess something around a 30-point win.
dropped us to #16, a true slap in the face. MSU lovefest continues with their ranking higher on a similar win. Any ideas why ? Of course as long as we win and continue to , kenpom can rank us as bad as he wants, we eventually will get respect. Did he under- rank us last year too ?
from 1.23 PPP to 1.21 PPP which is enough to drop them a few spot. It's not like KenPom drop teams whatever he pleases. Wofford isn't a good team and Michigan struggling offensively is going to take a hit on their offense efficiency.
Michigan rose up from 11 to 4 last year with a NC run.
Firs Lewan, then hockey, well, at least we won.
Ask Aaron Craft tonight if he'd take a win, even if it were ugly.
March 20th, 2014 at 11:16 PM ^
We definitely neglected them, and attacking the paint in general tonight, against a team with no size or shot blocking to speak of. Stauskas was posted up a couple of times against shorter defenders and no one even considered giving him the ball. It's like we're immune to posting guys up. I understand it's not the bread and butter of our offense, but come on... we should at least be able to go to it now and then.
I miss when we used to run high pick and roll with Morgan and feed him in the lane for an easy deuce. This seemed like the perfect game for it and it just never happened.
There were a couple of them at the end of the game.
They tried but Wofford packed the paint on a PnR situation.
I like how far we've come where we can be disappointed in a 17 point NCAA tourny win. Remember where we were 10 years ago
10 yrs.? How about 5 years. 15-17.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_Michigan_Wolverines_men's_…
Anyone that thinks seeds aren't that important.... Better to have played Wofford tonight than Dayton or Harvard.
March 20th, 2014 at 11:17 PM ^
The fact that we won as a 2 playing a 15 seed seems to have gotten lost, in the sense that it is our reward for having won all so many tough close B1G games. Won the conference by 3 games! Beat each and every team in the B1G. The whole season therefore counts, so I'm OK with "only" beating Wofford by 17.
Thinking back, too, to last weekend, was a bit of a struggle tonight unexpected? Got to remember, we played 3 straight games Fri-Sat-Sun and expended a ton of emergy and a lot of emotion in going thru that gauntlet. First 2 games were closer than expected leaving little chance to rest anyone, and Sunday vs. State was brutal physically on the team.
I would think the U of M basketball teams was slightly worn down in every which way coming in tonight. Would any of us be emotionally charged up for Wofford after just going through what this team did over those 3 days?
Bottom line? Moving on to the next round. Something half the teams playing today won't be allowed to do. Including Ohio.
March 20th, 2014 at 11:18 PM ^
The fact that we won as a 2 playing a 15 seed seems to have gotten lost, in the sense that it is our reward for having won all so many tough close B1G games. Won the conference by 3 games! Beat each and every team in the B1G. The whole season therefore counts, so I'm OK with "only" beating Wofford by 17.
Thinking back, too, to last weekend, was a bit of a struggle tonight unexpected? Got to remember, we played 3 straight games Fri-Sat-Sun and expended a ton of emergy and a lot of emotion in going thru that gauntlet. First 2 games were closer than expected leaving little chance to rest anyone, and Sunday vs. State was brutal physically on the team.
I would think the U of M basketball teams was slightly worn down in every which way coming in tonight. Would any of us be emotionally charged up for Wofford after just going through what this team did over those 3 days?
Bottom line? Moving on to the next round. Something half the teams playing today won't be allowed to do. Including Ohio.
March 20th, 2014 at 11:05 PM ^
We just won a NCAA tourney game!
We played a bit of a sloppy game in the opener against SDSU last year then, well, you guys remember the rest.
St Joe's just choked their game away badly against UCONN.
You don't want to remember a 17-point opening round win en route to a national title?
:-)
and I'm fine with that. We were the popular pick to lose in every single game till the title game last year (when people at least started to respect us). The picked us to lose to SDSU, VCU, KU, Florida, and Syracuse. Basically gave us no chance in 3 of those games.
I am definitely ok with being the trendy upset pick
I mean, I LOVE them. Unselfish, good guys who genuinely seem to love Michigan and each other. But I have a hard time believing we will be playing on the last night of the season this year. We are missing the "it" that Tre and McGary provided through last year's tourney run.
Still love these guys and live and die with each shot. Go Blue!
March 20th, 2014 at 10:55 PM ^
I seem to remember us being a more popular pick in both the Florida and Syracuse games.
But nearly everyone thought that 2-3 Syracuse zone was going to shut us down hard.
I just remember ESPN blasting "No team has ever lost 3 consecutive Elite 8 games". Can't remember who was getting picked
But as far as Cuse goes, with how much ESPN and CBS were drooling on their damned 2-3 zone you would've thought they were on a 100 game winning streak only giving up 5.0 ppg during it. I was so happy to shut everyone up after that game because I was so so tired of hearing about the 2-3 zone
Change title to Posbang?? A few years ago this would be a huge achievement!