J.

February 14th, 2018 at 8:15 PM ^

Michigan up 15 at the last TV timeout; just over two minutes left. The defense hasn’t been nearly as good as it was in the first half, but the offense has been better — although it went through a pretty rough patch after Iowa switched back to man-to-man and Robinson got his fourth foul. The pace is much slower, which helps quite a bit as well.

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J.

February 14th, 2018 at 8:20 PM ^

Hey XM: Be glad you missed this one. You avoided about a ten minute discussion of how wonderful Michigan State and Nebraska are at basketball and how they both should be top seeds in the NCAA, and how the numbers that show they haven’t actually accomplished anything should be ignored because reasons. Final score: 74-59 good guys. :)

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xtramelanin

February 14th, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^

So far we have one win and one loss at our games. Third and final game we trail by 5 at Half. Parents night for these last 2 games.

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J.

February 14th, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^

A great performance either way. ESPN’s box score has the 6 turnovers, but it could be that’s the one that’s inaccurate. It also has one extra offensive rebound for Michigan — 11 / 39 (28.2%). Iowa only had 5 / 27 (18.5%). And I remember the three OREBs for Iowa in the second half — two were in the first two possessions and the third was about 6 minutes in. After that, Michigan just shut them down. Iowa wasn’t missing that many shots, but they also weren’t getting a lot of cheap put-backs. There’s still a lot to clean up, but this team has more ways to win than other recent Michigan teams have. They can win with offense and they can win with defense. If they can put a complete game together, they can hang with anybody in the country. Go Blue!

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Perkis-Size Me

February 14th, 2018 at 8:38 PM ^

I wouldn’t say a full lock just yet. If they lose out and whiff in the first round of the BTT, they could be left out.

But they’re definitely nowhere near the bubble as of today. A win on Saturday essentially punches their ticket to the tournament regardless of what happens in the rest of the regular season and conference tourney.

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Perkis-Size Me

February 14th, 2018 at 8:34 PM ^

If they win out and win the BTT, it’s possible. If they look convincing while doing it, they could possibly even crack 4 seed territory.

Probable? Definitely not. But possible. There’s not a team in this conference they can’t beat.

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J.

February 14th, 2018 at 8:49 PM ^

We’ve already seen that the committee doesn’t really value conference tournament results. Michigan’s RPI isn’t going to be that great regardless, and their résumé isn’t going to be terribly impressive. I could easily see them winning out and getting a 6 seed. To get to a 4, they’d need to get quite a bit of luck from other teams really stratifying — all of the top seeds would need to win against all of the middle seeds.

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Perkis-Size Me

February 14th, 2018 at 8:29 PM ^

Have to consider the opponent, but that was a good win regardless, and a solid confidence booster going into a HUGE showdown on Sunday.

A few more days for Livers to get to 100%, too. Hope this team plays like it’s out for blood on Sunday. Crisler had better be deafening.

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Yostal

February 14th, 2018 at 8:32 PM ^

I don't even have to use the "Ugly wins are still wins." mantra for this one.

Handled their business at home, let's close out Crisler for the year with a W on Sunday.

Hope the people at the game enjoyed the Valentine's Day Buffet and Lewis Jewelers gift cards that Michigan was hawking via text for this one.

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Maize4Life

February 14th, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^

I think it  was Me actually that started the Clunkin Duncan thing....BUT this is what frustrates me about him....Good Duncan Bad Duncan....We havent seen that many Good Duncans this year and you can SEE when hes hot it changes our whole team...We reallllllllly need him to stay on track cause he Could be the difference come tournament time

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