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6 - Tuesday, March 15, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom
Conference play recap: Awards List
By BEN ESTES the Big Ten and was Michigan's
Daily Sports Writer sixth straight loss, destroying the
momentum it had built up after a
Back in December, the Daily hot start to the year.
basketball beat looked at how The then-15th-ranked Golden
Michigan's season had gone in Gophers won by just five points,
the nonconference portion of the but Michigan played uninspired
schedule. and without cohesion - its frus-
With the eighth-seeded Wol- tration was evident.
verines preparing to head to But following a pivotal
Charlotte on Friday to take on team meeting, the Wolverines
Tennessee in the NCAA Tour- regrouped and headed to East
nament's second round, here's Lansing to take on rival Michigan
another look back - this time, State. Michigan hadn't defeated
examining the conference sea- the Spartans at the Breslin Center
son: since 1997, but it pulled off a huge
MVP: Tim Hardaway Jr. 61-57upset win after junior guard
Michigan's guard, the son of Stu Douglass's 3-pointer with 22
the former NBA great, played seconds left sealed the game.
well for a freshman during the The victory gave the Wolver-
first half of the year. But dur- ines the confidence they sorely
ing conference play, it seemed a needed, and it showed - the team
light turned on for Hardaway Jr. went on to win eight of its next 11
- suddenly he became an offen- games to lock up an NCAA Tour-
sive force, capable of taking over nament bid.
games for the Wolverines. Key Change: Douglass's ascen-
Hardaway's real breakout sion to starting lineup
game came Feb. 6 at Penn State. For most of the season, Michi-
He played just three minutes in gan coach John Beilein started
the first half because of foul trou- three first-year players at the
ble, but scored all 13 of his points same time - Hardaway Jr., red-
in the last seven-and-a-half min- shirt freshman Jordan Morgan
utes of the game to lead Michigan and freshman forward Evan
to a comeback victory. Smotrycz.
Since that game, Hardaway Jr. But Beilein made a change
has averaged 19.1 points per game, before the Feb. 9 game against
with nearly every opponent prais- Northwestern, moving Douglass
ing his play after each outing. He into the starting lineup, switch-
even managed to steal some of ing Novak back to the four posi-
the spotlight away from fellow tion and putting Smotrycz on the
freshman Jared Sullinger of Ohio bench.
State. Sullinger won or shared 11 It worked. The Wolverines
of the first 13 Big Ten Freshman have come out with much faster
of the Week awards - Hardaway offensive starts with Douglass in
Jr. won the next three. the lineup. Each player involved
Turning Point: Jan. 22 win at in the switch has actually strug-
Michigan State gled somewhat since the move,
The Wolverines were at their but the offense overall has func-
lowest point of the season after tioned much more efficiently -
the Jan. 15 loss to Minnesota at and Smotrycz has evolved into a
home. It left the team at 1-6 in decent defender at the five posi-
'M' misses out on ,
NCAA tourney bid
Freshman guard Tim Hardaway Jr. has stepped up in the second half of the
season for the Wolverines, averaging 19.1 points per game since Feb. 6.
tion, despite never playing there
before.
Best Game: Feb. 23 against
Wisconsin
This one wasn't pretty -games
with the Badgers never are. But
the matchup came down to the
last possession ina game that had
huge implications for Michigan's
tournament rdsumd.
With 30 seconds left, sopho-
more point guard Darius Mor-
ris headed to the free throw line
with a chance to seal the win -
but Morris missed the front end
of his 1-and-1 attempt.
After a series of Michigan
fouls, Wisconsin had one last
chance to win the game.
Hounded by a double team,
star point guard Jordan Taylor
lofted a pass to freshman Josh
Gasser, who banked in a 3-pointer
as time expired to give the Bad-
gers a 53-52 victory.
Biggest Win: Big Ten Tourna-
ment Quarterfinal against Illinois
As it turns out, the Wolverines
probably would have received an
NCAA Tournament bid even if
they had lost to the Fighting Illi-
ni. But at the time, conventional
wisdom said Michigan needed
a win to ensure its place in the
tourney.
Down 12 points with just over
eight minutes to play, it appeared
that the Wolverines would be
sweating out Selection Sun-
day. But they buckled down on
defense, allowing Illinois to score
just four points the rest of the
way.
Michigan's late-game charge
gave the team a 60-55 win, essen-
tially clinchinganNCAATourna-
ment berth - something nobody
expected before the season.
By EVERETT COOK
Daily Sports Writer
The Michigan women's bas-
ketball team was sitting on the
precocious edge of the NCAA
tournament bubble, unsure of its
future but still optimistic. After
all, the Wolverines finished third
in the Big Ten after winning a
three-way tiebreaker. And more
often than not, the top five teams
in the Big Ten make the tourna-
ment.
But the bubble burst on Mon-
day, as Michigan was left out of
the NCAA Tournament for the
11th straight year. The Wolver-
ines had enough big wins on their
resume to be in consideration, but
in the end, it was their key losses
that came back to haunt them.
Michigan coach Kevin Bors-
eth was unavailable for comment
after the tournament field was
announced.
Early in the season, Michi-
gan (10-6 Big Ten, 17-12 overall)
lost to Detroit Mercy (6-11 in the
Horizon League) at home and to
Big Ten bottom-feeder Minne-
sota. The most important loss,
though, was in the conference
tournament.
After receiving a first-round
bye, the Wolverines seemed to
catch a break when Illinois, the
last seed, upset No. 6 seed Wis-
consin. Everything looked to be
falling into place for Michigan,
as a win against the Fighting
Illini would essentially guaran-
tee them a shot to go dancing in
March.
. The Wolverines were expect-
ed to roll over Illinois, but they
fell hard instead, 55-47, after
scoring just 16 points in the first
half. They shot 27 percent from
the floor in the first half, includ-
ing 13 percent from the perim-
eter, and dug themselves into an
insurmountable hole.
Even after a disappointing
showing, Borseth was still more
optimistic than expected.
"Do we have a chance to play
in the postseason? We do. What
are our chances? Good," Borseth
said after the game. "Tomorrow
the sun's goingto shine and we're
going to pick up the pieces and
get an opportunity to play some-
where down the road and forget
abouttoday."
And why shouldn't he have
been optimistic? The Big Ten
had five teams make the NCAA
Tournament, and Michigan held
a 4-4 record against those teams.
Perhaps more impressive was the
Wolverines sweep of Ohio State,
a team that went on to eventu-
ally win the Big Ten Tournament
and grab a No. 4 seed in the big
dance.
Those impressive wins had
Michigan predicted as a No. 10
seed, according to ESPN's Char-
lie Creen. Even though Michigan
was on the bubble, the feeling
surrounding the team was posi-
tive.
Instead, Michigan will not
break its streak of missed tourna-
ment appearances, as it willprob-
ably be a high seed in the WNIT
tournament favored to make a
deep run.
The bubble under Michigan's
tournament hopes has burst,
leaving the team to pick up the
pieces in time to contend for a
WNIT title.
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