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The Michigan basketball team nearly left the Queen City feeling like kings.
Instead, for the second consecutive game, it’s just the joker.
Michigan, which has largely played well through the first month-plus of the young season, again blew a halftime lead to a high-powered attack. This time, after mounting an 11-point lead with less than 10 minutes to play, U-M allowed Oklahoma to put together a 21-4 second-half run.
Even still, Michigan clawed back and again led by three points late and looked poised to win, but after Roddy Gayle Jr. turned the ball over on offense, he ran into Jeremiah Fears’ leg on a 3-point attempt with 11.5 seconds left.
The freshman not only made the 3, but added the free throw to go up one. Michigan’s Tre Donaldson couldn’t make a 3-pointer with three seconds left, Danny Wolf’s put-back attempt came up short and the Wolverines were stunned in an 87-86 loss in the Jumpman Invitational at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
While much of the blame can go to the discrepancy in shooting from long range — Michigan made just 4 of 28 attempts while the Sooners made 12 of 25 — this game was more than there for the taking for the Wolverines.
Michigan led for almost the entirety of the game but couldn’t come up with enough stops down the stretch as the Sooners made five of their final seven shots and scored 30 points in the final 9:42 of the game.
This comes after last week’s performance at Madison Square Garden, when Dusty May’s group led Arkansas by 15 before it eventually fell behind by 18 in what winded up as a close loss.
U-M now leaves the last of its six tests against high-major competition in the…
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-12-19 04:37:00
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