NEW YORK — For Michigan, make it 2-for-2.
The Wolverines entered Saturday afternoon playing their best basketball of the season and carried it over one more time, once again against rival Michigan State.
U-M got 15 points each from Moritz Wagner, Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and Zavier Simpson and successfully defended MSU for 40 minutes to score a 75-64 win over the top-seeded Spartans in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament in front of a sellout crowd at Madison Square Garden.
With the win, Michigan (27-7) advances to Sunday's final (4:30 p.m., CBS) to play defend its 2017 Big Ten Tournament title against either Penn State or Purdue.