Game 27: Michigan at Nebraska Recap

Late February is the ugliest part of the college basketball season, and Michigan and Nebraska played what has to be the ugliest college basketball game of the season on Monday night.The Wolverines prevailed, 49-46, with a crucial quadrant one road win to stay in the Big Ten title hunt, but it was more of a battle of will than skill.Michigans .71 points per possession were its lowest in a victory in Torviks database.

The next lowest in a victory was .83 points per trip in a 49-43 win over Illinois in 2008, the ninth win of John Beileins Michigan tenure.The old Michigan head coach used to love to refer to games as gritty-not-pretty, and Im not sure theres a game that embodies that idea more than this one.

The Wolverines tested the limits of how poorly you can play offensively and still win a Big Ten basketball game, but as closely as they flirted with the limit, they survived with another single-possession Big Ten road win.This game was uglyunprecedentedly ugly if were being honest.

On the other hand, Michigan won this game without doing the one thing you must do to beat Nebraska: making threes.The problem is that Michigans 3-point shooting wasnt a fluke; its a prolonged issue that was only exaggerated in this matchup.

Michigan isnt shooting it well from three, and it isnt even taking the threes it took early in the year.Thats a combo of many things not just one player, as many will try to have you believe and Im not sure whats going to snap the Wolverines out of it.

Its hard to deny that this teams ability to make a run in March hinges on shots starting to fall, and this was the seventh consecutive game in which shots didnt fall.A tight turnaround on the road against an aggressive defensive team isnt an ideal place to rediscover your stroke, and Michigan certainly didnt find it tonight.

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