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Indiana 62, Michigan 61

An excellent college basketball game that Michigan led most of the way turned into a nightmare tonight, as the familiar late-game gaffe script bit the Wolverines and robbed them of a potentially season-altering win at home against Indiana. A back-and-forth affair for most of the second half, Michigan took a 61-58 lead off a Hunter Dickinson basket with 5:12 remaining and then would not score a single point the rest of the way. Their defense held Indiana in check, but the clunker ending on offense was enough to doom Wolverines and deny them their fourth straight win. A new day, same old story. Michigan started hot to open the game, seamless offense with points being chipped in from everywhere and they held a 21-14 lead when Hunter Dickinson picked up his second foul with 12:08 remaining in the first half, a crucial swing moment in the game. Tarris Reed Jr. came on and did an admirable job tussling with Trayce Jackson-Davis and Michigan retained a 28-21 lead when Dickinson returned, but his defense would not be as effective as it was previously, unable to apply the same level of defensive pressure as earlier. Still, the home team held a lead for much of the half and a lot of it was due to the brilliance of Kobe Bufkin, who was slashing into the paint and finishing at the rack with ruthless efficiency, in addition to outside shooting. Bufkin scored a team-high 14 points in the first half, 5/6 from the floor and 2/2 from three, taking charge of the offense for a Michigan unit that scored 37 in the opening frame. The defense held strong for much of the half but started to come unglued in the later stages, struggling in the pick-and-roll once Jalen Hood-Schifino was re-inserted into the game. Indiana finished strong to close out the half, scoring the half's final four points and trailed just four, 37-33, at the break. [Marc-Gregor Campredon] Indiana came out hot from the locker room, using an abbreviated 7-2 run to give themselves their first lead since the early stages of the contest, 40-39. Michigan came right back, answering with a 10-2 run of their own, using a Dickinson and-one, a three from Jett Howard, and then it was capped off by a Joey Baker layup, forcing Mike Woodson to call a timeout. Michigan led 49-42 at that point, but the main storyline was defense, as it had taken each team seven minutes to score roughly ten points each, foreshadowing the rock fight it was going to be the rest of the way. The game marched along, with the two teams battling tight, Michigan leaning increasingly on their big man for offense while Indiana was looking at TJD and Hood-Schifino as their two engines. A 6-0 IU run forced a Michigan timeout and only a few moments later, the Hoosiers had the lead back, 54-53. A Tarris Reed and-one wrested the lead back for the Maize & Blue and as the clock ticked down towards five minutes, it was the home team with their natural advantage. That leads us to the basket noted in the opening, a Dickinson layup with 5:12 remaining to put Michigan ahead 61-58. Little did we know at the time, that would be it for the Michigan offense. The defense continued to do its job, holding Indiana scoreless until the under-4 media timeout was over with, and it wouldn't be until there was 2:58 left that the Hoosiers snatched the final lead, 62-61. That came on a pair of free throws from Hood-Schifino. On the next Michigan possession, Bufkin drove to the lane and had an open opportunity at the basket, but his shot clanged off the iron. Michigan forced a turnover on the ensuing possession, but TJD swatted Dug McDaniel on an arcing layup that was awfully close to a goaltend. [Marc-Gregor Campredon] Malik Reneau traveled on the next possession for Indiana, continuing to give Michigan opportunities to win the game, but the Wolverine offense continued to decline those opportunities. Michigan had Dickinson isolated on a smaller defender but Terrance Williams II flubbed the entry pass, throwing it directly to the Hoosier. Michigan's defense just kept standing strong, with a great possession forcing a miss, but Jett Howard's shot was not even close. Indiana rebounded it down with roughly 37 seconds to play and opted to play defense rather than foul. With <15 seconds left in the game, Jackson-Davis got it in the paint and Dickinson had positioning but then strangely attempted a reach-in, which was hit with a foul. TJD missed the front-end of the one-and-one, though, Michigan rebounded it down, and called timeout once the ball was across half-court. Out of the timeout, with eight seconds left, the Wolverines passed the ball around with no success, eventually winding up in the hands of Jett Howard, who jacked up an off-balance three at the horn that was off the mark. Final score: 62-61. [Marc-Gregor Campredon] Indiana won because Michigan finished 0/7 and 1/10 from the field. They didn't score in over five minutes and no matter how strong their defensive compete was late, it wasn't going to get it done when the offense disappears. Dickinson missed shots in tight, the Wolverines couldn't scheme up open looks from the perimeter, and McDaniel and Bufkin both either had a shot blocked or missed a shot inside. Bufkin, for his brilliance in the first half, was scoreless (0/4 FG) in the second half. Williams and McDaniel were non-factors, leaving the load to fall on Dickinson and Jett Howard, and neither were sharp enough late. Meanwhile for Indiana, Hood-Schifino and Jackson-Davis combined for 49 of Indiana's 62. It's not the easiest to win a game with just two players but tonight they could. More than anything, it's a missed opportunity to finish off a big win. Just as it was against Virginia. And at Iowa. Michigan Basketball was presented a chance to flip the script, change the narrative late in games, but the clutch gene continues to evade the team. Shooting stats, turnovers, and offensive rebounds were nearly even between the teams, but one team made one more basket when it mattered. That team was not Michigan yet again, and that's why the Wolverines are unlikely to make the NCAA Tournament at this juncture. Not much more can be said than that. Michigan now heads out on the road to play Wisconsin this Tuesday night in Madison. That game is scheduled for 9:00 PM EST and is scheduled to be broadcast on ESPN2. [Click the JUMP for the box score]

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Bracketology: Michigan Basketball In Serious Trouble

Michigan basketball is currently 11-9 and in serious danger of missing out on the NCAA Tournament.

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What Purdue Coach Matt Painter Said Following Road Victory Over Michigan

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No. 1 Purdue Takes Down Michigan 75-70 to Remain Unbeaten on the Road

In a matchup headlined by star centers Zach Edey and Hunter Dickinson, Purdue got a much-needed boost from its bench to escape the Crisler Center with a win.

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Michigan Basketball Falls To No. 1 Purdue In Ann Arbor - Sports Illustrated Michigan Wolverines News, Analysis and More

The Wolverines battled and did so without super frosh Jett Howard, but ultimately came up short against the top team in the nation.

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Purdue 75, Michigan 70

Michigan Basketball faced the #1 team in the country tonight without one of their two best offensive players in Jett Howard. They were unable to come away with a victory, a brutal stretch in the middle of the first period and not quite enough stops in the second half put the nail in the coffin, but it was still a solid showing considering circumstances. Hunter Dickinson led the Wolverines with 21 points, Kobe Bufkin put up 16 and carried a lot of weight in the second half, and Joey Baker, thrust into the starting lineup, had 11. It was a decent performance, but decent wasn't enough to win in a 75-70 defeat to Purdue. The game got off to a hot start, neither team capable of going cold on offense for the first eight or so minutes of action. The score sat at 22 apiece with 11:17 remaining in the first half, the two squads trading bucket after bucket with Michigan going to Dickinson early and often. He started the game off with a triple, made a layup, and then sunk a few free throws, scoring 8 of Michigan's first 13. Bench points started to come through the likes of a Will Tschetter three and a Tarris Reed Jr. dunk, but that score came with a caveat- he was hit with a soft technical foul, his third foul of the first half, forcing Michigan to dig deeper into its already thin depth. For Purdue, the offensive solution was going to star center Zach Edey. He scored the first seven points of the game for the Boilers and remained a problem inside, with a flurry of scores beginning the game-changing run for the visitors. After Michigan led 28-26 with 8:02 to play, Purdue would embark on a 15-0 run consuming nearly five minutes of game time. Edey got it started with a pair of shots made in the paint sandwiched around a David Jenkins Jr. three, and from there the Purdue offense was off and rolling. The lead eventually stretched to 41-28 with 3:06 remaining in the half when the Wolverines started to fight back, a solid spurt to end the half that allowed the game to feel semi-competitive at halftime. Kobe Bufkin's layup ended the drought for Michigan, Hunter Dickinson stepped out for a three and made a pair of free throws, and one final stop had Michigan into halftime only down seven, 41-35. That last three minute run gave Michigan a chance going into the break, but they were merely hanging in there on defense. The Boilermakers' offense scored at a scorching 1.27 PPP clip in the first half, 51.9% from the field and dominating inside, 40% from three, and as many turnovers as offensive rebounds (4). Michigan's offense got off to that hot start but their overall halftime numbers were not as impressive. They kept the turnovers low (2) and snatched five offensive boards, but shot only 11/29 (37.9%) from the floor. [Marc-Gregor Campredon] The second half started strong for Purdue, bouncing back quickly from Michigan's late run. Michigan turned it over on their first possession and the Boilers went up the court and the Michigan defense lost Fletcher Loyer in coverage. Matt Painter's squad got him the ball and he swished the three. Dickinson turned it over on the next Michigan possession and before long, Edey was laying it in for another quick make. 46-35, lead back to double digits just like that. Purdue stayed ahead by about that margin for the next several minutes, but Michigan attempted to mount a run and they were led by Kobe Bufkin in doing so. Bufkin was finishing at the rim, hitting shots in the midrange, and then capped it with a three to trim the Purdue lead to 52-46 with 13:31 to go. It was during this stretch of the game that felt like it was now or never for the Michigan offense to make a run and to their credit, they were getting that offense. Bufkin was the star, but Dickinson chipped in, and a layup by Jace Howard slashed the lead down to five. What they didn't have, however, was enough defense. For nearly the remainder of the game (up until the late Michigan push in the closing moments), every score or small run by the Maize & Blue was immediately countered with a basket or two by the Boilermakers that got the lead right back to where it was. After Howard's basket to make it a five point game, Michigan would spend the next 12 minutes never trailing by more than ten, but also never getting any closer than five. They could get scores, but couldn't get stops. Or they'd get a few stops, but couldn't get scores. Whatever it took, Purdue found just enough to stay a nose ahead of the Wolverines and salt away the final minutes from the scoreboard. [Marc-Gregor Campredon] Michigan kept battling, and did put together a furious charge with under a minute to go. They were down nine points with 45 seconds left when Zach Edey turned it over. Then the mayhem started. Dickinson hit a three, Purdue turned it over under pressure from Joey Baker right off the in-bounds pass, but Michigan couldn't convert on the ensuing possession. However, Edey missed the front end of a one-and-one and Baker got a quick layup to trim the lead to four. Loyer made his free throws, but Michigan pulled even closer when Baker banked in a three with five seconds left. 73-70. Michigan fouled Brandon Newman and the last hope rested on Newman missing the front end of another one-and-one. Unfortunately, Newman made them both and the Purdue faithful could collectively exhale. The meaningless Michigan shot at the horn was off the mark and the game was over. Michigan is now 11-9 on the season and 5-4 in conference play. They are back in action on Sunday for the beginning of a two game road trip, battling the Penn State Nittany Lions this weekend. That game is a re-match of one that Michigan won at Crisler earlier this month. The game is scheduled for noon EST and will be broadcast on BTN. [Click the JUMP for the box score]

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Michigan's Dug McDaniel With Message For Fans Ahead Of Today's Game

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