Michigan defeats Wisconsin Bugmen 61-52, Posbang
February 9th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
Good Point Hotel. Voskuil willed us to victory in the 1992 Final 4 game against Cincinnati. Many forget about that game, but it was Voskuil who took over that game at the end and not any one of the Fab 5.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
When he gets in that zone, he consistently drains that fade-away where he is on the run parallel to or away from the basket. It's unguardable. Only player that I ever saw make that consistently was Michael Jordan.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:34 PM ^
elvin hayes probably had the best unguardable turnaround fadeaway ever. but he was a 6'11" post player, so a little different.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:35 PM ^
Big win today!
We've got ourselves an interesting stretch coming up here: at Penn State, vs. Maryland, at Minny, and then back home for the big one vs MSU.
Let's do this.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:37 PM ^
Would be really nice to win all 3 heading into the final four game gauntlet.
Gotta feeling that Sparty will drop at least one more before seeing us. Need to split with them and Maryland at worst, then hope Purdue doesn’t win out with their easy schedule.
Should he a fun end to the regular season!
February 9th, 2019 at 3:40 PM ^
Well, Sparty goes to Madison on Tuesday. The bad news is that one of them will win.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:36 PM ^
Thinking about how great this team could be next season is making even happier. 22-2 holy shit if you told me that preseason I woulda been jumping off the walls
February 9th, 2019 at 2:39 PM ^
How about the OOP at the end of the game?! Fuck running the clock out!
February 9th, 2019 at 2:48 PM ^
Dude, so right. Could see Poole looking to dish that up when he crossed center court.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:51 PM ^
I think that was directly in response to Wisconsin pressing the inbound and trying (unsuccessfully) to foul Poole. Poole was like, “ok, you still want to play ball? Let’s go.”
February 9th, 2019 at 3:02 PM ^
A Wisky player stole the ball from us up 8 with about 10 seconds to go. What goes around comes around.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:40 PM ^
The so called magician Coach B. needs to recognize when Iggy is off, he is off very badly and probably get him off of the court. Anyone on the team can play defense as good as him so there is really no point keeping him out there if he is going to keep taking shots and missing them. He is way too mental when things don't go good from the start. He cant turn it around. Needs to sleep on it and reset or something but either way, you have to replace him with Livers.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:47 PM ^
Isn't that what he did? Sarcasm meter is broken.
February 10th, 2019 at 12:34 AM ^
Yeah it's what he finally did.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:51 PM ^
The "so called magician" who magically made Michigan Basketball not only relevant again but has made us a national contender consistently. I'm sure he'd love more of your input.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
If he emails him, Coach'll read it!
February 9th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
We're 22-2 and in sole possession of first place, but let's be all pissy and call our coach a "so-called magician" because . . . reasons.
February 9th, 2019 at 7:34 PM ^
FanInFargo - Troll, tongue-in-cheek, or completely bereft of basketball knowledge?
Every single fellow coach, every single commentator, and every fan half paying attention recognizes John Beilein as one of the very finest coaches in basketball.
Having an opinion is one thing, but belittling a brilliant coach is just dumb.
February 10th, 2019 at 12:33 AM ^
Okay, I'm a huge Michigan fan but call it dumb. None of you no longer get any of my advice. Call me dumb and say I don't know anything about basketball.
February 10th, 2019 at 12:52 AM ^
I just think Michigan could get a far better coach and they should start planning for it. If you want to win national titles, then go out and get the best. Michigan's best and last chance at winning a NC was in 2013 and Beilein got out-coached that game. Beilein is a good offensive minded coach but honestly, he didn't know how to coach a defense and he's been coaching for how long? Also, the guy has all of the resources at Michigan but he recruits un-athletic kids that cant shoot most of the games they play unless they are in Ann Arbor. Even then, they struggle often. Yeah I'm dumb because I say it how it is. Fuck you morons who think you know it all but don't know shit. Just a bunch of idiots feeding off of other idiots. See how far you get in life like that. You're all ending up in the same place. Nowhere!!!
February 10th, 2019 at 1:03 AM ^
Who are you, what do you do?
February 10th, 2019 at 7:12 AM ^
This douchebag has to be a troll, right?
Or did he just walk through the Winden wormhole (Netflix's Dark reference) and has yet to learn that Beilein hired Yaklich or that we're putting emphasis on recruiting athletic scorers?
Everything he said is wrong.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
Awesome win. In other news the idiots at the Selection Committee have both us and Sparty as 2 seeds. How the fuck is sparty still a 2 seed?!? I swear they all slurp up Izzo because of shit that happened 18 years ago.
February 9th, 2019 at 5:15 PM ^
It may very well end up that way too. I would not be a bit surprised if both end up 2 seeds.
Barring some surprises, UVA and Duke seem destined to be 1's; that leaves just 2 spots between us, Sparty, Tennessee, the Zags and Kentucky.
Michigan may need to both win the regular season title and make it to the B1G tournament final to get a 1.
No one is gonna want to be in our bracket whether we're a 1 or a 2.
February 9th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
Played great the last 5 minutes
Go blue!!
February 9th, 2019 at 2:57 PM ^
Great to see that they have what it takes to close out a close one, even on a day when 3's weren't falling. And Matthews is unguardable when he gets in that zone. Who needs 3's?
February 9th, 2019 at 2:58 PM ^
YES! And if we can hit just a few more threes that game isn't close. But that just speaks to how great our defense played.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:04 PM ^
Gosh I ripped on Teske the first few minutes and I shouldn’t have. My bad. But him and Matthews were extraordinary today. I love Livers. That guy is a DAWG. Hits open threes, rebounds, makes hustle plays, I love it. @Penn state will be a tough one Tuesday night, just win on the road baby.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:41 PM ^
Teske was doing everything he could to avoid the early foul, even if it meant letting Happ get his. I can understand why you were frustrated, but it’s pretty hard to argue with the strategy, given how it worked out.
It’s similar to how we played Purdue in the BTT last year. Let their bigs get what they wanted, but take away everything else. Turns out it’s hard to win with only one player scoring, especially when they’re only scoring contested twos.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:50 PM ^
I agree. Teske picked up the intensity as the game went on which was fun to see. Yaklich is a national treasure.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:45 PM ^
Teske's foul trouble cost us the game vs. Iowa. If he can stay in the game, we win. Simple as that.
I thought it was obviously Michigan's strategy today, and Teske did a great job of staying out of trouble. It's gotta be hard for him to back off.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:41 PM ^
Livers should get more of Iggy's minutes.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:50 PM ^
Until next game, when he's hot. Then it will be someone else who "should" sit.
Michigan needs Iggy's scoring. I love Livers, but he's not nearly as assertive as Iggy.
Iggy obviously struggles against Wisconsin's long-armed buzzcuts; he's still arguably our best offensive weapon.
Our biggest weakness is consistent scoring; all our guys struggle at times. Fortunately there's almost always someone who steps up.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:10 PM ^
We need this Matthews the rest of the season. For our sake and his sake if he wants to be drafted
Iggy being this cold would've been an L if Matthews didn't step up and Im sure come tourney time Iggy will have an off game or two
February 9th, 2019 at 3:13 PM ^
Matthews came up LARGE! Nice to see.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:21 PM ^
Wisconsin only got to the free throw line twice in the entire game (and missed both times). Coming from my sixth-grade son's basketball game this morning, it was great to be able to watch the game with him, point out various things we were doing, and say "THAT'S how you play defense."
February 9th, 2019 at 3:25 PM ^
Watching that alley-oop felt so good. I'll be laughing all evening.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:26 PM ^
Great result on the court and I’ll park this here for now.....we’ll have a big time visitor in the next few weeks as well. I’ll have more in the next few days.
February 9th, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
Lester Quinones? He said he was visiting soon
February 9th, 2019 at 3:30 PM ^
I'm just here for the bang.
Go blue.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:34 PM ^
Unfortunately, Sparty is not losing today. Hope Purdue does vs Nebraska and give us some extra cushion. We still have to play Sparty and Maryland twice, tough stretch to end the Big 10 play.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:55 PM ^
Need to win both of those at home and split the road games against MSU/Maryland and a share of the title should be ours.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:54 PM ^
yes especially since Maryland has Purdue at home.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:38 PM ^
i think NE will struggle the rest of the season; maybe 2 wins the rest of the way.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:46 PM ^
5-2 down the stretch would probably be good enough to win the conference. But can't get swept by MSU or maybe even Maryland.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:55 PM ^
The five teams at the top of the B1G are all really good (us, Sparty, Purdue, Wisconsin, Maryland).
So far we're 2-1 against the league's best; maintaining that pace and avoiding bad losses should be enough for the title.
No matter what, it's gonna be exciting!
February 9th, 2019 at 3:44 PM ^
Wisconsin fans seem very triggered by this game and its result. It's rather amusing.
February 10th, 2019 at 8:02 AM ^
We won despite the refs' bullshit.
Besides, Wisconsin fucked over Grant Newsome a - great kid who deserved so much better.
I hope Wisconsin gets fucked over in perpetuity.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:56 PM ^
Charles collected rent today.
