The Big Ten title race isn’t over. Not yet. Though losing at home to Michigan State hurt. Michigan basketball still has three games left.…
The Big Ten title race isn’t over. Not yet.
Though losing at home to Michigan State hurt.
Michigan basketball still has three games left. One of them is in East Lansing. The Wolverines will get another chance. They’re just a game back in the standings.
And yet…?
Sunday afternoon’s 77-70 loss at the Crisler Center was a gut punch. Here was a Spartans team missing two of its top three players. And here was the moment: Some three minutes into the second half, the fans roaring from their feet, when freshman forward Ignas Brazdeikis ripped down the baseline, leapt and threw down a dunk with two hands to give U-M a six-point lead.
It was there to take. Then it wasn’t.
After the early, second-half run to grab the lead and momentum, forcing MSU to take a timeout, the Wolverines responded with a travel, a foul, a missed 3-pointer, two more turnovers and a miss on the front end of a 1-and-1.
