Kentucky beat Mega Bemax 100-64 a few weeks ago in the Bahamas. Today, the Michigan Wolverines, last year’s runner-up for the national championship, lost to the same Serbian squad 81-73 in Spain.
To be fair, Michigan lost a lot of key players (including first round pick Moritz Wagner) and is really young, blah blah, but they still have Charles Matthews, the Most Outstanding Player in the West Region last year, Jordan Poole, and talented freshmen Iggy Brazdeikis. The Wolverines were actually down double digits for a good part of the game, but rallied to cut Mega Bemax’s lead to three in the final minutes; however, it just wasn’t enough.