INDIANAPOLIS — The whistle sounded for a media timeout with 7:07 remaining in a game that was all but over when Michigan basketball held a 17-point lead minutes prior.
Indiana guard Xavier Johnson waived his arms to incite an overwhelmingly pro-Indiana crowd that roared back to life with each successive turnover, missed shot and poor decision from the Wolverines, a group on the verge of collapse.
On the strength of a stunning 20-4 run, the Hoosiers stormed back and expose nearly every flaw coach Juwan Howard’s team has: from head-scratching turnovers by point guard DeVante’ Jones to the evaporation of perimeter shooting when the Wolverines needed it most, from the inability to create quality shots for center Hunter Dickinson to the sieve-like transition defense Michigan had never truly eradicated.