Dylan Widger
Through the years, Huge Ten Basketball has not been recognized for having a bunch of high-flying, high-scoring groups. The repute of the convention is that it’s a plodding league that favors groups who can sluggish it down and execute within the half courtroom.
On Monday evening, Michigan and Nebraska did completely nothing to dispel that notion. Neither crew might even get to 50 factors for the complete recreation as Michigan beat Nebraska, 49-46.
Monday’s essential matchup between a bubble crew in Nebraska and a crew preventing for a excessive seed within the NCAA Event in Michigan was anticipated to be comparatively low-scoring. In keeping with KenPom, each groups got here in with considerably higher defenses than offenses this 12 months. However, nobody might’ve predicted simply how dreadful this offensive show can be.
49-46 is an exceptionally dangerous remaining rating, and the stats are one way or the other even worse than the rating suggests. The 2 groups had been a mixed 34/123 from the sector, good for 27.6%. The stats from three-point vary had been even worse. Michigan was 5/27, and Nebraska was 6/28 for a exceptional 11/55 mixed, good for 20%. The worst three-point capturing crew this 12 months, Cal State Fullerton, is capturing 27.08% from deep. That exhibits you the way dangerous the capturing was. Even free throw capturing wasn’t nice, as the 2 groups mixed to go simply 16/25 from the free-throw line. Mockingly, turnovers weren’t actually that huge of an issue, as the 2 groups mixed for 25. That could be a tad excessive, however isn’t egregious just like the capturing percentages had been.
Michigan: 0.71 factors per possessionNebraska: 0.67 factors per possession
The primary Division I recreation all season during which each groups scored beneath 0.75 factors per possession.
— Jared Berson (@JaredBerson) February 25, 2025
Individuals on Twitter had been getting in fairly a number of laughs.
Nature is therapeutic pic.twitter.com/HmW452q4jH
— Patrick Daugherty (@RotoPat) February 25, 2025
Somebody on the market watched faculty basketball for the primary time tonight.
That individual isn’t watching faculty basketball once more. Thanks Michigan.
— Brody Sheetz (@brodysheetzESPN) February 25, 2025
Michigan-Nebraska tonight pic.twitter.com/qhDwJXOYJC
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) February 25, 2025
Michigan-Nebraska is nuclear ranges of sickos
— The Sickos CBB Committee (@SickosCBB) February 25, 2025
Sadly for Nebraska, they let a golden alternative to get an enormous Q1 win and assist their bubble case slip by their fingers.
