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If Penn State takes down the blue and maize in the quarterfinal, its chances of qualifying for the NCAA tournament jumps to 72 percent, as opposed to 26 percent if it were to lose to the Wolverines, according to Dahl. He came in second in steals per game behind Cassius Winston.

MI (25-11) arrived here as a storybook upstart after shockingly winning the Big Ten Conference tournament, the lowest seed (No. 8) to accomplish that feat.

The Wolverines are hot, hot, hot. But, no matter where he lands, any National Basketball Association team would love to draft a player that has the offensive and defensive production possessed by Bridges.

The question that lingered for four days: Could that Big Ten rush carry over into the NCAAs? Yes.

In the last two months of the regular season, the Wolverines had become a much better team. He averages 19.0 PPG, 6.2 APG, 3.3 RPG, and 1.8 SPG while posting an 116.5 offensive rating with a 33.0 usage rate. MI was ranked No. 49 nationally in Ken Pomeroy’s computer power formula. You can see both of those actions causing problems in the video above and that’s what MI will have to work to contain with a team effort on the defensive glass.

Bubble team? You can say that. It was a close game and happened right at the buzzer. They got right. They got rolling, popping IL (by 9) and IN (by 30).

The Nittany Lions open the Big Ten tournament Thursday against MI, the same program that just beat them twice last weekend. They were only getting warmed up. There were grumbles from several other campuses, too. If the Wolverines face the Cardinals, they’ll need to guard better than they did against Oklahoma State, which had wide-open shots all day and finished shooting 54.7%.

“Shooting the ball from 3 is part of our package”, Beilein said.

Seventh-seeded MI needed every point it could muster in a game that ended with a parade to the free-throw line, a buzzer-beating 3-pointer and a foe that refused to go away. The Wolverines were lights out from three-point range, and were able to ice the game late with free throws despite the Cowboys best efforts at hanging around.

Jeff Teague added eight points, eight rebounds and 11 assists, Myles Turner had six points, 11 rebounds and three blocks, and Monta Ellis scored 16 points for the Pacers.

He’s from Gary, Indiana and played in two state high school championships in Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

At one point MI was 4-6 in conference play and in danger of missing the NCAAs. MI had to wear its practice jerseys in Round 1 of the Big Ten tournament against IL, and cruised to a conference title that, in retrospect, doesn’t quite seem so important. MI beat IU in Ann Arbor and Bloomington, then took down Purdue at home and in the Big Ten Tournament.