Deserved to lose. Historically horrible game.

Worst game of the season. Athletic program is still a giant curse. 

• 3-11 from the 3 point line
• 39.2% from the field
• 54.5% from the stripe
• 14 turnovers
• Only one starter in double-digit points
• Two of your best starters combining for 7 points
• 0-8 on your last 8 shots
• Wagner just jacking up a shit three at the worst possible time when all they needed was a high percentage basket at the rim

Yeah...that’s not going to get it done. Unbelievably fantastic season. Terrible effort tonight. 

dumb thread

Just keep letting Wagner take the potential game winning shots even though he was ice fucking cold.  Brown was 2 for 3 from three and should have been given the shot.  Austin Davis was playing well and we put Dickinson back in to miss two easy put backs that would have won the game.  Horrible Coaching

Great season.  You only get so many chances to win a competitive sporting event.  Michigan had many missed put backs, lay ups, and shot poorly from free throw line.  Buzz kill ending, but it was a fun, valiant ride without Isaiah.  Proud of the team.  Michigan Basketball   heading in a good direction.

Stupid post.  You should be cancelled  it’s a hate crime on this board 

They far exceeded my preseason expectations, but this was disappointing. 

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Agree. Hats off to UCLA. What a story and what a run they are on.

Michigan should have easily been ahead by 15+ early on, which would might have possibly thrown UCLA completely out of their game plan, but NOPE. 

All of the missed free throws were just salt in the wound. 

Just a sour way to lose a game to advance to the Final 4 (against the #11 seed)

Historically horrible thread deserves to be deleted. 

I love our guys but they choked. This loss hurts and my heart goes out to them, but 3 missed somewhat contested layups and an airballed 3? Also the missed FTs?

Coach Howard was right about them needing to settle down. Maybe it was the pressure bc there's no prime scorer/leader on the court. 

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It actually made a lot of sense. They're awful at half court offense. We're good at half court offense. The strategy wasn't bad. We just got Juzang'd. If any of our stars had 25% of the game he had, it's an easy W. Our NBA prospect went 1-10. Our Freshman phenom had 4 turnovers. Is what it is. 

Smith took the penultimate shot, and had a good look. Wagner took the last miracle shot, not sure you can judge any shot with only 0.5 seconds left

As good as Michigan had been I knew they would find a way to lose this game. Didn’t waste my time watching. A complete and total embarrassment.

They certainly did not deserve to win. 

It was a fair result.  Their best shooters hit shots. Ours . . .did not. Over and over and over.

The moment was too big.

I am glad I ditched cable. Got to watch them play pretty well and reach the final eight, and couldn't watch whatever this was.

Illinois is so happy they're raising another banner. Apparently they wrote a letter claiming they gain a co-Final Four appearance for being the 1-seed that lost to the best lower seed.

Great strides, though. Even though this is disappointing, Juwan Howard is clearly building a powerhouse here.

How in the world is Franz Wagner considered a first round pro? He constantly disappears in big games. He has no mental ice. He freaks himself out after a couple of misses in a row. You can't count on him.

Smith, Wagner & Howard = F

i was surprised frankly that they went back to Franz after he air mailed his first 3 attempt... shocked they didn't go into the post with 20s left on the clock and down by 1.

Smith's running 3 was Hero Ball at its worst and the catch and shoot was a good play, but i would have had Eli or Brown shooting it as Franz wasn't good all game.

In the following days, I'll think the Elite Eight was pretty good for a team without Livers...but right now? That game was Michigan's for the taking, but could not buy a bucket in the last two minutes.

Fuck UCLA. I hope the Zags curb stomp them by 20...i'll even cheer Timmie flexing on them

This one stings.

UCLA didn’t deserve it any more than we did.  They gave us chance after chance.

Well, this is one of the reasons why I don't talk too overconfident about the outcome of some NCAA basketball tournament games. 

I've watched kids choke, play tight, shoot cold and their team get upset for many years in this tournament.

In fact, that happened a lot with higher seeded teams this year.

You never know when certain guys will fall to the tournament pressure.  

Though you're hoping it won't be pretty much your whole team falling apart and somebody will do enough to win the game. 

UCLA is a decent team, but they benefited greatly from Alabama and Michigan flat out choking and falling apart against them.

This is a juvenile take. Grow up

I am way more pissed off about this loss waking up for work exhausted at 5 a.m. than i was last night. 

Michigan had a bad night. Legs? Pressure? Late start? Who knows? Bad nights happen. You wish it wasn't in the tournament, but it was. UM won bad nights like that during the season because that one guy always came through. Probably that one guy should have been Livers - if only to slow UCLA's one scorer down a little.

Oh well. Looking forward to what Howard puts on the floor in the fall. Go Blue.

100% correct.  I wouldn't even say hats off to UCLA.  They are not a very good team.  Well probably above average.  But we had to pretty much have everyone play tight for them to even have a chance.  And that's what happened.  Give Chaundee the rock!  He's the only one who played fearlessly the entire post-season.  Still a great season and love this team.  GO BLUE!