Over the course of eight days, the Wolverines played the bottom two teams in the Big Ten in Minnesota and Rutgers, with a more challenging road matchup at Nebraska in between. Coming out on top in each contest, the results against the league’s worst were not exactly a thing of beauty. Taking on the Scarlet Knights on Wednesday evening, it may not have been the game Maize and Blue wanted to play, but it was still a win, coming out on top 68-57.
“I just saw a nice family out there,” said head coach John Beilein of his trip into the media room, “and I said ‘I hope you all had a good time, because I did not.