Originally Posted by
scottdude8
Yeah, this is one of those games where everything went wrong and Michigan still had a shot to win, which counterintuitively could be seen as a positive for the team’s overall prospects. Iggy didn’t score a point, we turned it over about twice as much as we usually do, couldn’t hit a three, were playing at 11 am local time, and playing on the road in a building where we’ve only ever one 2 (TWO!) games... and yet we still could’ve won the game if a couple threes fall and a couple iffy home foul calls go our way. Sucks to fall behind MSU in the B1G race but the loss isn’t one that changes the team’s outlook unless the issues become a pattern.
Hah! The intentional foul call when Barzdeikis grabbed Wisconsin's Happ (49 percent FT shooter) with 45 seconds left was unusual.. Happ was nowhere near the ball. Usually such calls are only made for fouling a player with the ball headed for an easy basket. Beilein almost had a stroke in disputing the call with the referee.
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013