March 12, 2019 (vol. 128, iss. 85) • Page Image 8
… ensure equal access and opportunity related to this event please contact Stacy Tiburzi at 734-764-3440, or stibu@umich.edu. Similar mistakes cost Wolverines Michigan could not stop Cassius Winston…
…. Again. Michigan State stymied the Wolverines’ ball-screen game. Again. Michigan blew a second-half lead. Again. The difference between Feb. 24 in Ann Arbor — a 77-70 Wolverine loss — and three days…
… eight assists in the first meeting while playing from tip-off to final buzzer. Postgame Saturday, sophomore forward Isaiah Livers was asked what the Wolverines’ biggest takeaway from two weeks…
… from the basket, which the Wolverines had done in the first meeting — they switched them, taking away many of the easy assists to a wide-open roll man that Winston tallied in February. Junior…
… with seven points in the first half. But ultimately, Winston was too good and too much. As the Wolverines bricked their lead away, Winston — just as he had done two weeks ago — slithered around…
…Andre Haynes. “He turned the corner at will, anytime he wanted to.” The Wolverines had no more luck scoring off their own ball-screens. Michigan State coach Tom Izzo’s stroke of genius in the first matchup…
… Saturday, the Wolverines were optimistic that this time would be different. They were merely caught off-guard by the Spartans’ adjustments, and with time to make their own, they would put the shoe on…
… the other foot. Michigan was prepared to attack mismatches — such as finding Teske down low after a guard switched onto him — and show discipline on isolations. The Wolverines did neither…
…. Simpson missed 10 of 13 shots, including many at the rim. Teske took just five shots — the same as in February — and Michigan stopped trying to feed him. The Wolverines’ 15 points in the last 14…
… Wolverines couldn’t wake up from. Against players like Winston and Tillman, there’s only so much a team can do. But whatever Michigan had the chance to do, it was unable to — and the product was a…