The teams combined for 14 ties and 17 lead changes in regulation alone, and they headed to overtime tied at 66 after Zak Irvin pulled MI even on a layup with 4.2 seconds left, before Wilson blocked a 3-point attempt at the buzzer.
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Zak Irvin has been the focus of much criticism this season, but none of that was on his mind on his driving basket at the end of regulation that forced overtime in their win over Purdue on Friday.
Northwestern, vying for the first NCAA Tournament berth in program history, entered Day 4 of the Big Ten tournament as one three feel-good stories left in the field. The Terps’ seed and matchup will be revealed March 12.
MI eliminated the top seed in the conference tournament for the second time in as many years and hopes to advance to the championship game for the first time since 2014. “I hope they do”. “He was really using the rim as a good protector to get his layups in”.
Fourth-year coach Chris Collins has successfully turned around the program.
“You can kind of tell he has just told himself he is going to play very hard and get rebounds, which is what we need”. That was as close as they would get. “It’s really sort of a great, quality, vibrant event for us in the core of our downtown”, Ryan Vaughn, president of Indiana Sports Corp, said.
Northwestern picked up an 83-61 win over Rutgers last night in its Big Ten Tournament opener. With 11:07 to play, Vic Law hit a jumper to give the Wildcats the lead. Wisconsin shot 41 percent from three and six different Badgers hit from beyond the arc.
Junior forward Scottie Lindsey, who sat out Maryland’s 10-point win over Northwestern last month in Evanston, Ill., while recovering from mononucleosis, joined Law in leading the Wildcats with 17 points apiece.
Senior forward Nigel Hayes had 18 points, 10 rebounds and three assists and sophomore forward Ethan Happ added 16 points and eight rebounds for the Badgers, who lost to Northwestern earlier this season.
Despite shooting 37.1 percent – and 30.4 from 3-point territory and going about 3 ½ minutes without a point in the second half – Rutgers also won its first Big Ten Tournament game after being bounced as the No. 14 seed the past two tries. “So now it’s like, ‘Let’s just go play basketball.’ They’re playing probably more relaxed, looser”. “They did a better job of sitting on some of them in the second half”.
“It hurts”, Trimble said.
And it’s not your excessive whining or your students’ antics or the guy the row in front of me religiously following Duke-North Carolina on his phone while an actual game played out on the court. “Here’s why we win because we’re connected and right now, you’re disconnected'”.
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The Badgers completely put the game away with a 13-2 run, increasing the lead from 15 to 26 with less than 10 minutes remaining. During that stretch, the Terps self-destructed with a series of turnovers, including successive shot clock violations. “That was the best I’ve seen them all year”, Maryland guard Melo Trimble said. “We don’t want to run around like spring chickens or anything like that”. We just weren’t sharp on our cuts, we weren’t playing smart at all. Here are the top six post-up offenses (including pass outs) in Division I by volume, per Synergy, with their efficiency measures. Hope is a lovely thing in life and for the first time in a few seasons, the fighting Pikiell’s gave us that.
