That was a weird one. Wednesday, Michigan took down Northwestern 72 to 70 in a game that

he just kind of took a big old deep breath at the end. You exhaled and he said, well, thank

goodness Michigan scored more points than Northwestern because it was an ugly game at times.

A ton of players played. There were a bunch of fouls. There were some runs in the game,

but it felt almost agonizing at times. And it did, for a good chunk of the game,

feel similar to the Seton Hall game in November and the Minnesota game in December,

where Michigan had their glimpses, their solid stretches in each

of those games, and yet it never felt truly comfortable until it really didn't feel comfortable

when the pirates and the gophers made their runs and ultimately knocked off the Wolverines.

In this instance, though, you have to admire and appreciate a couple of things about Michigan.

Number one, when the Wolverines fell behind by seven, it really felt, and Terry and I talked about it,

both on the broadcast and during breaks, you wondered where in the world were they going to get the

offense?

You felt like they could get some stops defensively.

Northwestern is not an overwhelming

offensive attack, but you really wondered, how would Michigan score enough points? When you're down

by seven late in the game like they were, you got to get offense somehow, some way. And Michigan

found a way. And what was unique was that it happened despite a little bit later,

both Hunter Dickinson and Musa Diabate fouled out. And yet it was Jaron Fault. It was Terrence Williams

the second. It was Devante Jones and Caleb Houston making big shots and free throws.

They just found away.

This Michigan team cannot play like they did on Wednesday and expect to win a whole lot

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