WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- When you have two highly skilled teams that don't match up well against each other and they're both hitting contested shots, well, you get 92-88.
Michigan was on the wrong end against No. 3 Purdue on Thursday night in a game where, except for very brief stretches, neither team could stop the other.
The head coaches, John Beilein and Matt Painter, are advanced tacticians and their offensive game plans were well executed. Their defensive strategies didn't work, but in many instances assigning blame wouldn't be fair.
Purdue has a unique physical specimen in 7-foot-2, 290-pound Isaac Haas, who starts alongside four dead-eye shooters that can also dribble and pass.