Basketball @ Minnesota. 7pm.

this offense is putrid. good thing Minnesota's is worse

espn is terrible

commercials, promos boeheim 

BROADCAST THE GAME

The out-of-bounds area of the court should be either a shade lighter or a shade darker wood tone. This is terrible design and also terrible to watch on TV.

It's not as bad as Boise State's football field, though.

Castleton had quite the motor. Dude never stops.

SMH Matthews with 3 turnovers and all of them were BS.

Hoping Iggy is saving his game for the tournament. 

I got 34 first-half possessions.  Michigan with 28 points for 0.82 ppp; Minnesota with 18 for 0.53 (!). Michigan's biggest offensive struggle isn't what you might think -- they're 5/14 from 3, which is fine, but only 6/17 from 2, for an eFG of 43%.  Combine that with a 15% OREB rate and you have a recipe for low scoring.

On the other hand, Minnesota is 8/30 from 2 and 0/5 from 3.  That's an eFG% of only 23%.  Minnesota would actually be even worse off if it weren't for the OREB rate of 36%.  Michigan got hit with a lot of late turnovers to get their TO% up to 15%; Minnesota is worse, at 20%.

It's safe to say that Michigan won't hold Minnesota to half a point per possession in the second half.  If you figure a similar pace in the second half, and think that Minnesota might get up to 1 ppp, you're looking at a target score of 53.

I know the gophers aren't exactly good on offense but the defense is pretty nasty tonight.

I love Poole, but he tends to do the James Harden flop on about half of his 3's. He's not getting those calls

Need to tighten down on allowing offensive rebounds...10, in one half, is far too many

Since January, Michigan looks like a team that would be great if they could hit 2 more shots per half. 

The offense they ran that half was fine; tons of good looks. If they'd hit 2 more shots we'd be up 15 or so and feeling great.

Who are these refs.?

They are brutally bad. Both ways.

Get to 60 and this is a win.

Got to get some O rhythm this first 5 Minutes. Can’t control makes and misses, but get ball flow and good shots each possession. Avoid the ball sticking or one guy dribbling too much. 

Iggy is off

A travel?!!!  Wtf

That "travel" is let go at every level of basketball...that's not what the spirit of the rule is

Two blocks and a jump ball! yes

There you go Iggy...that was a .ore acceptable take, no one there to shut the last part of the drive down so easily...that was perfect

Hopefully tonight starts the late season resurgence that usually happens after the February bad loss - this year Penn State. Looking much better so far.

Stop shooting, Teske!!!

/a Michigan fan somewhere

Offense waking up!

TESKE!!

May get to 60 a little quicker than I thought...Let's keep it going guys!!!!

Just what the doctor ordered.  Keep it up fellas.

Murphy in the fouls, go hard at him.

Man if we can just play like this for more than 3 minutes a game. 

Amazing how different the offense seems to play when they have almost the full shot clock to work with compared to when teams press them and delay the ball’s progress up court.

Seems like this team has more streaky players than I ever recall with a team before, mainly on the O side of the ball. This team needs streakygood Poole & Iggy come March. 

Minnesota only has 4 team fouls the entire game...and Murphy has 3 of them

Media timeouts need to be every 5 minutes. 4 minutes is fucking agonizing. 

When this team has 1 of Iggy, Matthews, and Poole going on the offensive end, we usually win. When we have 2 going we almost always win. When we have all 3 going nobody can beat us. `

Minnesota has no outside shooting. Surprised they are 17-8 and 7-8 in conference. Feel like they need to have an ugly game under 55/60 to win. 

Do enjoy the smothering D but so many of the guys are low percentage shooting today