For 20 minutes, Howard looked to be on the verge of putting together one of those special March nights. The Bison buried three after three after three, stringing together seven makes in a row. When a 10th first-half 3-pointer rattled home at the halftime buzzer, you started to wonder if maybe it was possible.
“I was actually thinking, this is how they usually happen,” Dusty May admitted in his post-game press conference.
It didn’t happen tonight, because Michigan found itself. The Wolverines steadied their defense in the second half, and Howard missed a few jump shots. That was all it took for the Wolverines to methodically pull away with a pair of deflating second-half runs — 12-1 and then 21-3 — to walk away with a comfortable win as the crowd shifted its attention to the North Carolina-VCU game on the jumbotron.
It was win number one of six, the easiest of the bunch, in Michigan’s quest to make its claim as the best team in the sport. The Wolverines didn’t look like it for all 40 minutes on Thursday, but they reminded us that they are still capable of it, too.
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