Michigan is a young basketball team, and they sure do play like it.
Juwan Howard's club was in control of the game for all but the final 3 minutes of regulation and the overtime period of the Michigan Wolverines’ loss to the Iowa Hawkeyes on Thursday. But, as we have learned on countless occasions this season, the Wolverines cannot finish ballgames.
Part of that comes down to guard play. In those final three minutes of regulation in Thursday’s loss, Kobe Bufkin, Dug McDaniel, and Jett Howard were 1-3 with 2 turnovers. That doesn’t include a critical foul from Bufkin that led to an Iowa four-point play, down 4 with 20 seconds left.