Ann Arbor – This wasn’t a typical Michigan-Michigan State basketball game.
The emotions. The atmosphere. The pregame sights and sounds. It was all unlike any previous meeting between the fierce rivals.
In the Spartans’ first game since three Michigan State students were killed and five others were critically wounded in a campus shooting, the Wolverines used a strong finish and closed the game on a 12-0 run to pull out an 84-72 win on Saturday at Crisler Center.
Dug McDaniel finished with 18 points and Kobe Bufkin scored 17, including the go-ahead 3-pointer with 1:54 remaining, for Michigan (15-12, 9-7 Big Ten), which ended a two-game slide.