ESPN: Burke doesn't miss this chance for Michigan
Solid article on Burke finally getting a game winning shot to fall. But watch the video of the game recap. Vitale goes nuts! The Motown Mash?
http://espn.go.com/ncb/notebook/_/page/homecourt130329/2013-ncaa-tournament-home-court-live
Also (in response to the video), I don't want to hear "Kansas gave Michigan" anything. Sometimes, probably the majority of the time that happens. Michigan TOOK this game. They flat-out outplayed/outcoached the Jayhawks down the stretch.
Nonetheless, nice recap and quotes from Trey.
March 30th, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^
Exactly! That's why I was so frustrated for most of this game.
the narrative around here would be 98% that we gave it away to Kansas and 2% that the Jayhawks took it.
It's not taking anything away from Michigan to acknowledge that Kansas played poorly in the final minutes, because we still had to make the plays to take advantage of it. If Trey or Mitch or GRIII or Morgan don't do what they did, Kansas would be the team celebrating.
March 30th, 2013 at 12:10 PM ^
Sure fans would say that. That's what fans do.
But analysts are suppose to analyze the game. And if you watched...the only thing KU really did to help us was the 10 second call.
I don't even count the missed front end of the 1-and-1 because the same kid hit 2 shots in a 1-and-1 right before that. Releford also made 2 free throws when they called a foul on McGary's block. That's 4 of 5...that's not GIVING Michigan anything.
Think back to Michigan vs. IU...we missed the front end of a 1-and-1 THREE times!! That's giving the game away.
Burke made a 30+ foot jumper with a hand somewhat in his face. What did KU give them there?
...again, most times I think you can say the other team helped, but outside of that 10-second call, we got NO help from KU.
....where we suffered a similar fate against Indiana as Kansas did against us.
As stated by others, there was some giving and there was some taking last night, just as there was in our loss to Indiana (along with some extra giving by the refs).
That's probably a good way to put it. Kenpom probability chart, via UMHoops:
With about 2:30 to go in regulation, Michigan's win chances per KenPom bottomed out at around 0.6%, which looks bleak when you can sit here and mull over the numbers, but it seems like, at that moment, whatever had been missing for 37 minutes suddenly came into being. As Burke himself said, they were not allowing themselves to believe that this was over, and it worked - they scraped back against a Kansas team that was quickly losing its focus (iffy passes, the 10-second call in the backcourt, etc..).
You can see where the OT-forcing three happened, but more importantly, it was the intersection of Michigan's newfound fight and Kansas' deflation. Statistically and psychologically, I don't think Kansas recoverd from Burke's three-pointer. I think that the KenPom graph is more or less what taking a game looks like, although we should acknowledge that all of it was made possible in no small part to the complacency and strategic lapses of the Jayhawks touched on in the video.
March 30th, 2013 at 10:22 AM ^
March 30th, 2013 at 12:14 PM ^
The one other play that has to stick in their craw is GRIII coming away with the ball out of the scrum for the layup that made it 74-71. KU had the possession arrow there but couldn't get a hand on it long enough.
March 30th, 2013 at 10:10 AM ^
riding the michigan bandwagon has definitely earned him a million favor points in my eyes
March 30th, 2013 at 11:10 AM ^
March 30th, 2013 at 11:28 AM ^
But doesn't skip discussion about karma. A smile-inducing read: LINK
From
All season long, the Wolverines were carried by the majesty of Burke and his merry band of talented freshmen while being marked with a scarlet D.
to
Overtime. Which made zero sense, but made perfect sense. If that makes sense.
to... Well, you know the ending.
March 30th, 2013 at 11:39 AM ^
It seems like Bilas has been against us all season.
We fired his pal (Amaker). For him, it's personal.