Michigan basketball’s makes West Coast statement: ‘Big Ten goes through Crisler’

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LOS ANGELES — Moments after Dusty May emerged from Michigan basketball’s road locker room to a handle his postgame media duties near John Wooden Court, he insisted this is about the long haul.

His Wolverines (12-3, 4-0 Big Ten) had just dismantled UCLA in historic Pauley Pavilion 94-75 on Tuesday, completing an LA-sweep of the new Hollywood-based Big Ten teams after dissecting USC 85-74 on Saturday evening at Galen Center. Yet even after saluting the maize and blue faithful who stuck around to pay their respects to the team, he kept a straight face when he gave his assessment of what just transpired.

Jan 7, 2025; Los Angeles, California, USA; Michigan Wolverines center Vladislav Goldin (50) celebrates with guard Tre Donaldson (3) against the UCLA Bruins in the first half at Pauley Pavilion presented by Wescom. Mandatory Credit: Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

“No statement,” May said of the trip. “On Jan. 7, we played a really good basketball game against a great coach, great program and great players. Other than that, we have a long way to go.”

The only problem, somebody forgot to tell his point guard, Tre Donaldson. The team’s energizer bunny and man who stirs the drink when the offense isn’t being run through its 7-foot point-forward Danny Wolf, Donaldson had a different assessment of what his team had just accomplished.

Just days after he made a career-high four 3-pointers and scored 16 points in the Wolverines’ victory over the a Trojans to start the trip, Donaldson topped those marks on the campus where legends like Arthur Ashe, Jackie Robinson and Lew Alcindor etched their name into the history books with a career-high 20 points, going 6 of 10 from long range as he added seven assists and six rebounds against only two turnovers.

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All told, outside of a 28-6 push from the Bruins in a nine-minute span, it was U-M’s most complete outing of the season.

The Wolverines won the other 31 minutes…

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Author : Detroit Free Press

Publish date : 2025-01-08 17:00:00

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