With Michigan basketball's season hanging in the balance, Juwan Howard used a small-ball lineup that could serve the Wolverines well in the Sweet 16.
The numbers were less eye-catching Saturday — two points, two assists, four rebounds in 31 minutes — but he finished with the second-highest plus/minus value on the team (plus-13) and applied consistent pressure as a dogged on-ball defender. They made the plays there at the end, and those two offensive rebounds were huge plays in the game.” “We still have a lot of mistakes that we have to clean up. Together, Collins and Williams offered ample support during the most important seven minutes of the season. He helped secure the victory in the second half by making two free throws with 2:09 remaining to put U-M in front, 68-64. Brooks (39 minutes), Dickinson (38 minutes) and Houstan (32 minutes) were mainstays who rarely left the court against the Volunteers in a continuation of their hefty workloads throughout the season. The same can be said for Collins, who turned in his second mature performance in as many games. He repeated the feat 62 seconds later by crashing the offensive glass to turn a wayward shot from Dickinson into a game-tying, second-chance basket with 4:01 to go. Thirteen of those points in the waning minutes came from the lineup Howard assembled at the 6:46 mark with his team down multiple possessions. And those two rebounds and putbacks were big to keep the momentum going. Williams and Collins represented more strategic choices over Diabate and Brandon Johns Jr., the only other rotation players to log minutes in the second half. INDIANAPOLIS — With fewer than seven minutes remaining and his team trailing No. 3 Tennessee by two in the NCAA tournament, Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard made a prudent substitution.
On Saturday evening, the No. 11 Michigan Wolverines rose to the occasion and defeated No. 3 Tennessee to march on to the Sweet 16. Following the game,
For the fifth-straight season, the No. 11 seed Michigan Wolverines have advanced to the Sweet 16 following a 76-68 win over No. 3 Tennessee. MICHIGAN DEFEATS TENNESEE TO MARCH ON TO SWEET 16 On Saturday evening, the No. 11 Michigan Wolverines rose to the occasion and defeated No. 3 Tennessee to march on to the Sweet 16.
After the Wolverines win to send Michigan to the Sweet 16, UM legend Chris Webber showed up to the locker room to give the postgame speech.
He deserves all the love the 〽️ can and will give him! THIS IS EVERYTHING! I love seeing Chris embrace Michigan again. “THIS IS EVERYTHING!” another fan responded.
The improbable tournament run for the No. 11 seed Michigan Wolverines continues on into the Sweet Sixteen, after defeating No.
We've been together for three years, and this young man earned the right to be a captain at the University of Michigan because of the way I've seen him and his growth. The improbable tournament run for the No. 11 seed Michigan Wolverines continues on into the Sweet Sixteen, after defeating No. 3 Tennessee by a score of 76-68. He's irreplaceable."
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But a turnover on the inbounds led to a Tennessee basket. Jones subbed out at the first media timeout and left the bench area, apparently with a wrist injury. Brooks, then Diabaté, each had a layup roll off the rim just before the final media timeout of the half. Dickinson grabbed a rebound at the other end and was fouled. He missed the free throw but Michigan still led 30-24 with 4:50 left. Brooks pointed to the player on the ground, in the no-charge circle: “And one, baby!” His free throw made it 65-62 with 3:21 left. Michigan went back up one on a Brooks layup with 11:29 left before Tennessee got some separation with three straight layups, then a free throw, to make it 60-54. A Brooks 3 in transition -- “Boom!” the fifth-year senior yelled as the ball ripped the net -- got Michigan within one a few minutes in. After the teams traded blows, Michigan took the lead for good on a Brooks and-one with 3:21 to go. Despite playing poorly at the end of the first half and heading back to the locker room down five, Michigan didn’t panic. Michigan point guard DeVante’ Jones returned to the starting lineup after missing Thursday’s first-round game -- a comeback win over Colorado State -- due to a concussion but only played 12 minutes on Saturday, all in the first half. A zone defense helped slow Tennessee’s attack in the second half.
The Wolverines sprinted out to a 6-0 start. Tennessee fought back in it to keep things tight in the first half. The Vols went on a 13-2 spurt to take a five- ...
The Vols went on a 13-2 spurt to take a five-point lead into the break. The Wolverines stuck to their gameplan and now they get to reap the rewards until they travel to San Antonio for next weekend. His effort helped immensely by slowing down Zakai Zeigler and Kennedy Chandler just enough to keep things from getting out of hand.
The Michigan basketball team advanced to its fifth straight Sweet 16 on Saturday with a win over Tennessee in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
They will play the winner of No. 2 Villanova and No. 7 Ohio State. But the Wolverines had one last push, as a pair of Terrance Williams put-backs and an Eli Brooks layup put them up 65-62 after the under-four timeout. Michigan got off to a fast start Saturday, building an early 10-2 lead and staying ahead for most of the first half.
The 11-seed Michigan Wolverines took down 3-seed Tennessee, 76-68, to advance to the Sweet 16. Here are our five takeaways.
For a while, the Wolverines had five turnovers to Tennessee’s three, but by the end of the first half, Michigan had nine. After it looked like UT couldn’t be stopped, the maize and blue clamped down, thanks to a zone defense. The Vols entered Saturday’s game as the nation’s No. 2 defense according to KenPom and 18th in the country at creating turnovers. With just under 14 minutes left in the game, the Wolverines took the lead back, thanks to a Hunter Dickinson 3, his second make of the game. Under a minute to go, the four-point lead was still there, thanks to an Eli Brooks skyhook. He drove to the basket and was fouled, allowing the team to take a three-point lead. A regular inclusion in our game takeaways has been Michigan not doing well defending the 3. UT shot from beyond the arc 18 times, but managed two makes, an 11.1 percentage. But, in the first half, the Wolverines were the aggressors, jumping out to an early lead, and staying even in most of the aforementioned categories. But the maize and blue would have to continue on without DeVante’ Jones, who left the game with an undisclosed illness at the half. The Wolverines will face the winner of Sunday’s Ohio State vs. From there, Michigan held on and won, 76-68, and will head to its fifth-straight Sweet 16.
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We still have a lot of mistakes that we have to clean up,” Brooks said. It’s a rather stunning end for a Tennessee team that looked the part of a real national championship contender for the better part of the last month. From a COVID-19 pause to injuries to failing to live up to expectations to the postgame melee at Michigan that left head coach Juwan Howard sidelined for the final five games of the regular season, few if any teams in the sport endured more adversity than the Wolverines have this season. But the story today is Michigan, a team that has had many opportunities to fracture this season. “That was the main focus: Run them off the line and stay down on shot fakes, and we did that,” senior guard Eli Brooks said. The team that spent the last month finding itself and then having to go back to the drawing board broke through Saturday, and did so against arguably the hottest team in men’s college basketball.
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He suffered a concussion in practice before the start of the NCAA Tournament and did not travel with the team for the Round of 64. If it weren’t for that game — a game in which the Wolverines were not only without their head coach, but also their best player in Hunter Dickinson — they would probably be playing in the NIT at this point. They may be one of the normal premier programs in college basketball, but there is nothing normal about Michigan basketball this season. The Wolverines have been up against some major adversity this year, but they have been able to overcome it all up to this point. Once they went unranked in the polls for the first time in December, they were never ranked again. The line continued to shift in favor of the Volunteers, especially when DeVante’ Jones, who missed the CSU game with a concussion, left the game and never came back.
Michigan basketball, the No. 11 seed in the South region, beat No. 3 seed Tennessee, 76-68, in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Portions of the second half were breathless in a game featuring six ties and 12 lead changes. Michigan fans roared when Dickinson blocked an attempted layup, altered another shot after an offensive rebound by the Volunteers and then plunged to the floor in pursuit of a loose ball, ultimately producing a tie-up. When Dickinson swished a free throw-line jumper with 2:29 remaining in the half — an unusual shot type from an unusual location for the team's leading scorer — Michigan climbed in front, 32-31, to annoy the largely pro-Volunteers crowd. "Everybody thought we shouldn't be in the tournament. The cushion proved large enough to keep Tennessee at bay. The return of point guard DeVante’ Jones from a concussion that sidelined him against Colorado State gave U-M an emotional lift, and fans cheered when he took the floor for pregame warmups. That was the biggest key of winning the game." "We turned the ball over, things weren't going our way," Williams said. Super sub Terrance Williams II scored six of his nine points in the last five minutes to spark the final comeback from a 60-54 deficit. "That was the main focus," Brooks said. The ball belonged to Eli Brooks, the graduate student with more games in a maize and blue uniform than anyone in program history. Skin-tight defense against Jones, Brooks and freshman point guard Frankie Collins repeatedly pushed the starting position for Michigan near mid-court.
The Wolverines put it together for two games in a row for the first time since early February, sending them to the Sweet Sixteen.
Tennessee still got on the board, but the Wolverines always had an answer. Five of their nine first-half turnovers came in that span, allowing Tennessee to close out the half on a 13-2 run to take a five-point lead into the locker room. He knocked down the free throw to put the Wolverines up by three with just over three minutes to play. Alternating wins and losses for over a month was good enough to get the Wolverines off the bubble and into the NCAA Tournament. It was good enough to advance past Colorado State in the first round. The Wolverines started to turn the ball over consistently, allowing the Volunteers to get out in transition. And that’s a credit to (Michigan coach Juwan Howard), the coaching staff, finding those guys out there that you like to be around.
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In three years he has won a Big Ten title, reached two Sweet 16s in two tournaments (one was canceled) and he’s 5-1 overall in the Big Dance. The Wolverines want to force teams into tough 2-point shots and that was successful on Saturday. He was terrible on offense but give credit where credit is due.