The day it all changed
It was FOUR years ago tonight that Stu Douglass changed the direction of Michigan Basketball.
Michigan entered the game on a 6-game losing streak that included horrible losses to the likes of bad Indiana, Northwestern and Minnesota teams. The season looked to be going as the "experts" had predicted before the season started. (They had Michigan finishing 10th of 11 in the Big Ten).
And then something funny happened. Michigan led for most of the game but you just weren't sure if this was real or not. It sure didn't seem like it near the end as state had a comeback in the final 2 minutes.
And then it happened. It REALLY happened. A three pointer that ended the hopes of a state comeback up at breslin with under 30 seconds to go to put Michigan up 60-55. Michigan's first win there since most of the players on that team were in kindergarten.
And the rest, they say, is history.
1/27/2011 to Basketball, is what 11/22 was to Football, IMHO. A special date that should never be forgotten.
Fitting another Michigan MBB team pulled on out a win on this night.
January 27th, 2015 at 9:48 PM ^
Actually the day it all changed was that day you posted the email.
January 27th, 2015 at 11:25 PM ^
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January 27th, 2015 at 9:51 PM ^
I get chills watching this...
January 27th, 2015 at 10:23 PM ^
Eeek. How did we get by before life with HD?
January 27th, 2015 at 10:45 PM ^
Like savages
January 27th, 2015 at 9:53 PM ^
I can't wait to find out what is supposed to happen in November 2022.
January 27th, 2015 at 9:56 PM ^
Our eighth straight victory over Ohio State.
January 27th, 2015 at 9:53 PM ^
January 28th, 2015 at 10:03 AM ^
negging this?
January 28th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
Jealousy.
January 27th, 2015 at 9:53 PM ^
January 27th, 2015 at 9:56 PM ^
Great post. And with all due respect to Stu Douglass, I think the Moment That Changed It All was Zach Novak screaming at the team during that timeout.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:05 PM ^
When McGary held aloft a "Win the Game" sign - and we all kinda felt strangely calm and confident that, "Yeah. We will."
January 28th, 2015 at 12:07 PM ^
MSU opened that game with a 6-0 lead before Novak drained a three and got fouled, and completed the four-point play, quieting the crowd. He was dialed in from the start.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:03 PM ^
Man, I still remember watching that game in my dorm room in Markley and hearing the whole hallway go absolutely apeshit when Stu hit that shot.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:08 PM ^
It is the basketball equivalent of the Michigan Ohio State upset in 1969 in that it is the day we became dominant.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:08 PM ^
The image burned in my memory from that night was something a little different
January 27th, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
... cry by the end of the game.
And ESPN was relentless in showing those d-bags and talking about how Michigan could never, would never beat MSU in basketball. I think they also mentioned the football team a couple of times, too.
Haha... sweet sparty tears.
January 28th, 2015 at 6:10 AM ^
January 28th, 2015 at 10:05 AM ^
and those noodles' painted chests makes a great combination.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:15 PM ^
January 27th, 2015 at 11:04 PM ^
January 28th, 2015 at 10:06 AM ^
Anyone know?
January 27th, 2015 at 10:15 PM ^
January 27th, 2015 at 10:21 PM ^
It ain't over.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:22 PM ^
to Zach Novak's Aneurysm of Leadership for that one.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:26 PM ^
As I recall, our conference record when that game began was something like 1-6 and we finished the conference schedule at 9-9. In the grand scheme, it seems sort of "meh" on the surface but it was a 8-3 run and Michigan basketball, at the moment of that three, seemed to find something that it had not had in years to that point - a confidence and a "can do" sort of attitude that seems to resonate even today.
EDIT: Bah, I say "when that game began" and proceed to quote the record when the game was over. Thanks to snarling wolverine for pointing it out. Corrected.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:41 PM ^
We were actually 1-6 entering the game (and 11-9 overall). So it was an 8-3 run - and one of the three losses came on the Gasser banked-in three at the buzzer.
January 28th, 2015 at 12:15 AM ^
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January 27th, 2015 at 10:40 PM ^
So you derived more pleasure from them losing than us winning?
That sounds like Little Brother thinking.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:52 PM ^
January 28th, 2015 at 12:04 PM ^
I'm not characterizing you. I don't know you. But the kind of thinking you described is very Little Brother-ish.
January 28th, 2015 at 5:31 AM ^
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January 28th, 2015 at 10:07 AM ^
dealing with that.
January 27th, 2015 at 10:56 PM ^
People seem to attach a lot of significance to that shot and that game...I'd argue the "watershed" moment was Darius Morris telling MSU to remove themselves from the court post-haste after M completed the sweep.
January 27th, 2015 at 11:14 PM ^
January 27th, 2015 at 11:22 PM ^
Good to have a lot to choose from. Can't be enough water shed on and by Spartys, to my mind.
January 28th, 2015 at 5:30 AM ^
January 28th, 2015 at 8:58 AM ^
Get the eff off my spellin'
January 28th, 2015 at 10:53 AM ^
Sparty's
January 27th, 2015 at 11:08 PM ^
Look it up, but I bet Michigan has one of the 3 highest winning percentages in the country from that point forward.
It was Novak. That woke everybody up.
January 27th, 2015 at 11:24 PM ^
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January 28th, 2015 at 6:57 AM ^
If you listen really carefully, I bet you can hear MLive calling you in the distance...
"miatamich, come back we miss you."
You should take their advice and go back.