Newsstand: Michigan basketball will play Xavier on Wednesday
The Michigan Wolverines are into the championship game of the Fort Myers Tip-Off event in Florida after beating Virginia Tech 75-63 on Monday night, and now know their opponent on a quick turnaround. U-M takes on Xavier – a 6-0 squad ranked No. 22 in the country – on Wednesday night at 8:30 p.m. from Suncoast Credit Union Arena in Fort Myers.
Fox Sports 1 will have the broadcast. Virginia Tech and South Carolina – the losers of Monday night’s games – will play at 6 p.m.
Head coach Dusty May was pleased with the win on Monday night and also complimented the large contingent of Michigan fans that made their way to the event in Florida to root for their team.
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” I’d like to shout out Wolverine Nation. They turned this into a home game,” May said during his postgame press conference. “A couple of the workers outside said that they felt like this was the best crowd they have seen and they’ve had some schools that really travel well at this event. So I want to show gratitude towards our fans. They did give us extra energy.
“Tonight was a little bit choppy, like it has been at times all year. I feel personally like, and the staff feels the same way, that we’re learning a lot about ourselves through these experiences. Until you’ve been in these battles with guys, you don’t really know how they’re going to respond to certain things. But I do think we tightened up defensively the last 15 minutes. We were able to change our coverages up a few times and then our guys communicated and adapted well on the fly. And came up with some really big 50-50 loose basketballs in the last 5 or 10 minutes that I think gave us a little bit of a margin of breathing room on the offensive end when we weren’t really clicking.”
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“I mean, everybody. When you walk in the building, obviously Jim being around him, but really just being around it and being at Michigan, being here for seven years, it’s something you can’t forget. You just see, as soon as you walk in the building, you see the pictures, you see everything. You understand the importance of the game and what it means. As soon as you put on the Maize and Blue, that’s the first thing you hear about is that game. So the fans, the people, coaches here, the coaches of the past, they make sure you understand what it’s all about.”
– Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore on the Ohio State rivalry
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