Through five games, Michigan's scoring balance has been something to behold.

That was the case until Monday's win over Virginia Tech game number six.

Before then, no Wolverine had scored more than 19 points in a game.

And by game, the difference in points between Michigan's top score and second leading score was, in chronological order, three, one, two, two, and three.

On Monday, Michigan certainly needed some strong individual waves of contributions from many

players. Will Cheddar provided a huge first half spark. Trey Donaldson, who did not log a point

or an assist in the first half, delivered nine points

and two dimes after the half, and he led Michigan in plus minus overall.

Vlad Golden had a few key dunks in defensive stands, even Ruben Jones, who has contributed

in most areas beyond scoring as he ramps up in his Michigan first season. He had quite a finish to put an exclamation point on the win.

But for the first time this year, Michigan relied on and at times leaned on a go-to score

and against the Hokies, that was Roddy Gale Jr.

Gail delivered 20 for Michigan, the first 20-point performance. And he doubled up Michigan's next

leading score. That was Will Cheddar at 10. Gale was 6 to 13 from the floor, two of six from

downtown, which was above where Michigan was as a team, and 6 of 6 from the line. Earth-shattering?

No, not at all. But he was a calming force as Michigan slowly crawled back

from an early 11-point deficit to earn what became a 12-point win. Dusty May has talked about it

for months. He expects a different score most nights to lead the way. He wants balance and he feels

like this team has the type of talent where they can be balanced

and they can kind of bounce back and forth who is score number one in a game and until

Monday that was the case and heck if you take out Roddy's 20 here were Michigan's other

scores they had 1099-887 and 4 so So, yeah, that desired result still came about, save one exception.

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