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Newsstand: Dusty May weighs in on Michigan rebounding woes

Anthony Broomeby:Anthony Broome•about 16 hours•

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The Michigan Wolverines were abused on the glass in Sunday’s 93-73 loss to Illinois, allowing 19 offensive rebounds and too many second chance opportunities. It has put the Wolverines behind the MSU Spartans in the Big Ten standings instead of doing what they can to keep pace for the regular season crown.

Head coach Dusty May addressed it after the game, stating that the Sunday woes were a cavalcade of problems.

“I think it’s a little bit of everything,” May said. “We were on our heels. Our communication wasn’t great. And so we were broken down because we were late on our switches. And they did a nice job of confusing the switches. But because we weren’t able to keep bodies on bodies early and then we had to go to the zone. So they have a running start. We’re trying to meet them closer to the basket. And at the end of the day, when you look at their lineup, Will Riley, Ivisic, Boswell plays much bigger than his height. Tre White’s a big kid. Jakucionis is big. They’re big, strong, physical guys. And in a jump ball contest, 15 feet to 18 feet, they won, it seemed like all of them. So even the ones we did block out, they were able to get them back. We just don’t have the margin for the ones that we missed or we weren’t aggressive to fly in and tip it or help our teammates out. We just weren’t able to overcome those. But once again, I’m giving Illinois a lot of the credit too. Those guys played really, really connected basketball tonight.”

Michigan will get an opportunity to get back in the win column on Wednesday night when it hosts Maryland for a 6:30 p.m. tipoff.

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“Tonight it was one through eight [who have to be held accountable]. I was actually really proud of Phat Phat [Brooks] at the end. LJ [Cason], [Justin Pippen] and felt like they really fought at the end. So I was really proud of them. But, you know, those first seven or eight guys, it was just pathetic.”

– Michigan forward Will Tschetter on the performance against Illinois on Sunday

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