As painful as it was to watch Michigan basketball‘s season slip away into darkness on Saturday night against the Iowa Hawkeyes in a 71-61 loss, the Wolverines’ postseason aspirations are not dead.
Michigan crawled to the finish line by losing six of its final nine games and didn’t do very much in the latter half of the conference season to make a good name for itself in the eyes of the selection committee.
The Wolverines’ last six losses came at an average of just over 10.5 points per contest. They simply looked bad in most of their defeats, which is part of the reason having 20 wins isn’t carrying more weight.