February 21st, 2019 at 7:49 PM ^
this offense is putrid. good thing Minnesota's is worse
February 21st, 2019 at 7:50 PM ^
espn is terrible
commercials, promos boeheim
BROADCAST THE GAME
February 21st, 2019 at 7:51 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:05 PM ^
Hold the phone on Boise’s football field, I suppose you don’t like that sick red field of wash st either? Or that awesome Oregon b-ball court?
February 21st, 2019 at 7:52 PM ^
Castleton had quite the motor. Dude never stops.
February 21st, 2019 at 7:52 PM ^
SMH Matthews with 3 turnovers and all of them were BS.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
That last travel with 11 seconds was legit. He shuffled his feet and pivot foot moved on the spin.
February 21st, 2019 at 7:53 PM ^
Hoping Iggy is saving his game for the tournament.
February 21st, 2019 at 7:53 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 7:54 PM ^
I know the gophers aren't exactly good on offense but the defense is pretty nasty tonight.
February 21st, 2019 at 7:55 PM ^
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
February 21st, 2019 at 7:55 PM ^
Need to tighten down on allowing offensive rebounds...10, in one half, is far too many
February 21st, 2019 at 8:01 PM ^
Minnesota missed a lot of shots; the overall 35.7% OREB rate isn't great, but it's not awful. (Yesterday, North Carolina had a 53% OREB rate in the first half against Duke).
Minnesota doesn't have a ton of second-chance points because a lot of those OREBs came from playing volleyball on a small number of possessions.
February 21st, 2019 at 7:56 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:01 PM ^
Nope. Michigan looks like a team that is great. Sure, they could be better, but you're underrating the defense.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Agree to disagree - overall this season I'd agree they've been great; since January they have been too inconsistent offensively to be great.
Unquestionably their defense is absolutely stellar.
Hopefully they are in fact a great team that's just in a shooting slump.
I love this team, and believe they'll rev it up come tournament time.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
Who are these refs.?
They are brutally bad. Both ways.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:03 PM ^
Well, Bo Borowski is one of them; I don't know who the others are.
They're nowhere near as bad as the officials at Iowa and PSU were.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Agree 100%. For the most part they're letting them play, and I like that.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:02 PM ^
Get to 60 and this is a win.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:44 PM ^
Are you serious. WOW excellent job at plagiarism. On one hand they suck and now that you’ve read one post you call the score. Sorry you can’t have both. Take your own quote and find the,”ROCK FIGHT!” We do not suck. But your quest to be a basketball analyst does.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:04 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:04 PM ^
Iggy is off
February 21st, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
and now he's on!
February 21st, 2019 at 8:12 PM ^
Great halftime adjustment by Iggy to hit rather than miss.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:13 PM ^
Freshman, going to have his ups and downs. But his ups are dope.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
A travel?!!! Wtf
February 21st, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
That "travel" is let go at every level of basketball...that's not what the spirit of the rule is
February 21st, 2019 at 8:06 PM ^
Two blocks and a jump ball! yes
February 21st, 2019 at 8:07 PM ^
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
February 21st, 2019 at 8:09 PM ^
Hopefully tonight starts the late season resurgence that usually happens after the February bad loss - this year Penn State. Looking much better so far.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^
Stop shooting, Teske!!!
/a Michigan fan somewhere
February 21st, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^
Offense waking up!
February 21st, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^
TESKE!!
February 21st, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^
May get to 60 a little quicker than I thought...Let's keep it going guys!!!!
February 21st, 2019 at 8:10 PM ^
Puppy Pitino has no answers!
February 21st, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Just what the doctor ordered. Keep it up fellas.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Murphy in the fouls, go hard at him.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:11 PM ^
Man if we can just play like this for more than 3 minutes a game.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:13 PM ^
They've been playing just fine - just missed a bunch of good shots. Offense has been pretty sound this game IMO.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:12 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:13 PM ^
It’s not even that. They’re pushing the tempo and attacking Murphy. Beilein teams rarely push tempo
February 21st, 2019 at 8:14 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:15 PM ^
We are due.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:16 PM ^
The Barn is weird.
Always has been.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:15 PM ^
Minnesota only has 4 team fouls the entire game...and Murphy has 3 of them
February 21st, 2019 at 8:15 PM ^
Media timeouts need to be every 5 minutes. 4 minutes is fucking agonizing.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:17 PM ^
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. `
February 21st, 2019 at 8:17 PM ^
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.
February 21st, 2019 at 8:19 PM ^
Do enjoy the smothering D but so many of the guys are low percentage shooting today