Can we all agree Michigan is the favorite to win the Championship?
- Thread starter BubbaJ75
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They have won 7 straight including the Big Ten tournament championship game. Oh by the way there are three big 10 teams in the Sweet 16. The media kept telling us the Big Ten was down this year.
Could very well be Purdue vs Michigan for the right to go to the final 4. I knew we were in trouble when I saw them as a possible second rd matchup. I figured if we got by them then we would go to the final 4. But they are red hot! They're good but I don't know if they're national championship good though. However, they do have a great chance at making the final 4 and once you get there who knows.
Don't agree at all with this. I don't think Michigan will beat Oregon. They have been very fortunate so far in who they have played. They gave up 91 points to a Oklahoma State team who finished the season losing 5 out of their last 10 games and whose coach just left after only one season. Michigan gave up 30 points in the paint to Oklahoma State and it took those 16 3's to win that game by one point.
Then they played a Louisville team who had lost 3 out of their last 5 and only won because the Cards 2nd leading scorer went scoreless on 0 for 9 shooting. A Louisville team who couldn't get out of their own way at crunch time in games. A missed dunk and a foul with only 3 seconds on the shot clock gave the game to Michigan.
I think Oregon will dominate the inside and the Wolverines will again have to make a ton of 3's. Oregon, unlike the Cards don't beat themselves at crunch time and I think the Ducks will win. But even if Michigan wins, no way they beat Kansas. Now I haven't been as sold on Kansas all year unlike the media but one thing they usually don't do is beat themselves when the game is on the line. They're a veteran team.
Michigan fans didn't know it but they were lucky the #2 seed in their region was Louisville. That doesn't mean they're going to win the tournament.
Then they played a Louisville team who had lost 3 out of their last 5 and only won because the Cards 2nd leading scorer went scoreless on 0 for 9 shooting. A Louisville team who couldn't get out of their own way at crunch time in games. A missed dunk and a foul with only 3 seconds on the shot clock gave the game to Michigan.
I think Oregon will dominate the inside and the Wolverines will again have to make a ton of 3's. Oregon, unlike the Cards don't beat themselves at crunch time and I think the Ducks will win. But even if Michigan wins, no way they beat Kansas. Now I haven't been as sold on Kansas all year unlike the media but one thing they usually don't do is beat themselves when the game is on the line. They're a veteran team.
Michigan fans didn't know it but they were lucky the #2 seed in their region was Louisville. That doesn't mean they're going to win the tournament.
It's very simple why Louisville lost to Michigan. John B line made a second-half adjustments and Pitino did not. Michigan played suffocating defense in Louisville panicked towards the end.
Not! Pitino made adjustments but the players didn't execute. Do you not remember Mangok fouling with 3 seconds on the shot clock down 3? Or Anas missing a dunk also down 3? Or Snider giving Walton the right hand drive to the goal again down a bucket?
Pitino's defensive game plan worked. Michigan made only six 3's. It was the offense that lost the game. Two missed wide open dunks. Snider missing all nine of his shots.
This loss was not on Pitino. It was the fault of the players and they would be the first to tell you so.
