Evanston, Ill. — Moritz Wagner was watching helplessly on the sideline repeatedly saying, “Please, please, please don’t make it.”
Zak Irvin was near midcourt and thought the pass was going to sail out of bounds.
After a wild game in which Michigan overcame a miserable first half riddled with turnovers and misses, it left stunned as Northwestern pulled off a Hail Mary pass and made buzzer-beating layup for a 67-65 Wildcats victory Wednesday at a raucous Welsh-Ryan Arena.
“If we made one more free throw, one less foul, one more switch, made one more shot, that's how it goes,” said Wagner, who finished with eight points and 10 rebounds in a game that had major Big Ten and NCAA Tournament implications.