charles matthews tournament edition

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3/21/2019 – Michigan 74, Montana 55 – 29-6, Round Of 32

There's not too much to say about an opponent who listed all five starters as guards and was so small that Jon Teske got 23 minutes and had one foul in that time. This was the opening tip.

The announcing crew spent most of the first 25 minutes openly hoping Montana could get their ass in gear and make it a game, and most of the last 15 talking about Reggie Miller's blood feud against a Michigan tuba. At one point Montana got a bucket and the tenor of  the conversation is "Michigan's letting them hang around!" It was a two-point run from 15 down to 13 down.

The final score doesn't quite do it justice. Michigan was up 27 with six minutes left when blowout sloppiness set in, allowing Montana to score on seven of their last nine possessions. Before that: 39 points on 59 possessions. Like last year there was a point at which it was clear that Montana was out of offensive ideas. Unlike last year this point was their first shot.

So here we are on the 10th anniversary of Michigan's first Beilein bid, being bored. The foul-fest that was Nevada-Florida pushed Michigan's game a half-hour late, so the spacing on all the late games got mucked up. By the time Michigan was up 27 or 24 I kind of wanted to flip to the momentarily lit Wofford-Seton Hall game that Twitter was flinging up exclamation marks about.

Time to stop and think about where we are.

Hook oop! Oblig:

I want to see that 5 times a game from now on plz.

[after the JUMP: a spectacular photoshop]