Tourney loss representative of Illinois’ entire season

The Big Ten Tournament this week will take place at Madison Square Garden and may be full of more surprises.

Michigan, however, was able to overcome their poor three-point shooting and quickly went on an 11-0 run in the opening three minutes of the second half to take a 46-40 lead.

No.8 Maryland vs No.1 Michigan State.

The fifth-seeded MI basketball team evaded an upset bid from 12th-seeded Iowa, 76-71 in overtime, overcoming foul troubles, shooting troubles and plenty more troubles in between.

Abdur-Rahkman scored 21 points and Moe Wagner had 20 as fifth-seeded MI (26-7) dealt a significant blow to Nebraska’s NCAA hopes. It may because the Big Ten was the only major conference to have their tournament being played right now. The Spartans won 69-55.

“I’ve never been done in February before – ever”, IL coach Brad Underwood said. “I’ve put in so much work the past three years at Iowa, but at the end of the day I’ve had wonderful support here”. A serious run in NY would change that. “Our alums and our fans are”. MI comes into the Iowa matchup on a five-game winning streak, capped by the 24-point dismantling of a solid Maryland team on the road. Wagner has helped carry the load for this MI team all season, and he’s going to be an essential part of whatever comes next for the Wolverines.

Iowa came into this game with nothing to lose, and they certainly played that way. I’m just really excited to keep this going. Maryland lead by Cowan Jr. finished their season being blown out by MI at home. On the season, MI averages just over roughly nine made three-pointers a game and shoot 37% as a team from beyond the arc. Nicholas Baer hit a 3-pointer with less than a minute left, and then Jordan Bohannon sunk a 3-pointer with 16 seconds left to tie the game at 67 and force overtime. In the BTN postgame interview, Mike Hall asked the MI coach about star Moe Wagner’s foul trouble, to which Beilein offered a hilarious response.

“We just battled”, Robinson said. “We typically have six, seven, eight teams in the discussion”.

Whatever the issue was in Lincoln, it was solved the second time around. He scored 14 points on 6-of-7 shooting Thursday after scoring 15 last week against Minnesota and making some big non-scoring contributions Wednesday against IL. This weight class also has 10 bids to the NCAA tournament, and the No. 11-seed from Grand Island, Nebraska, will look for a ticket to get there. Still, this was an historic season on many fronts from Tim Miles’ crew.

“I think we’re just going to wait to see what happens”, Palmer said. “But I don’t think there is any real big takeaway other than it was out of our normal routine”. “That’s what we want to see”. The Cornhuskers won 10 of their final 12 regular-season games.

Numbers: The Gophers, who rank 46th in the RPI, were one of last four teams in ESPN’s most recent NCAA tournament projections. “I don’t think this loss should affect us”. The win over MI was their best of the season. I do believe MI is deeper with their bench and can go to a variety of options if nothing is working, but I think Ohio State needs this one for a young team going into March.

If Nebraska is left out, the Big Ten is looking at getting only four teams in the tournament, barring an upset victor at the Garden.

Michigan is one of three teams that can say it beat Michigan State this season, doing so by a score of 82- 72 in East Lansing in January.

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