Stanford fell to Arkansas in a double overtime thriller late Wednesday night and will face Michigan around 7:30 p.m. (ESPNU) in a Thanksgiving Day showdown at the Battle 4 Atlantis.
It’s a matchup of two desperate teams that fell short in the opener, already lost a buy game this season, and need to claw out a neutral court win by any means necessary to get back on t
Stanford enters the matchup ranked 67th by KenPom, and has been much better on offense than defense this year. Michigan should have the rest advantage, having played the earlier game and not gone to two overtimes, but is still searching to get out of its two-game slide.
Here’s how the after dinner Thanksgiving battle shapes up.
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