Former Michigan basketball coach Steve Fisher is in Ann Arbor for the first time since 1997 on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019. Nick Baumgardner, Freep
Though losing at home to Michigan State hurt.
Michigan basketball still has three games left. One of them is in East Lansing. The Wolverines will get another chance. They’re just a game back in the standings.
And yet …?
Sunday afternoon's 77-70 loss at the Crisler Center was a gut punch. Here was a Spartans team (23-5, 14-3 Big Ten) missing two of its top three players. And here was the moment: Some three minutes into the second half, the fans roaring from their feet, when freshman forward Ignas Brazdeikis ripped down the baseline, leapt and threw down a dunk with two hands to give U-M a six-point lead.