Reporters will not be allowed to enter team locker rooms following games at this week’s Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, according to a statement from the Big Ten Conference. The statement, released Wednesday afternoon, confirmed that the tournament will “continue to be held as scheduled,” though postgame media availabilities will be held in a larger space in an attempt to avoid the close confines of locker rooms.
The tournament, however, will go on as planned with fans in attendance.
During Michigan’s loss to Maryland on Sunday, Franz Wagner was whistled for his second foul just eight minutes into the first half.
Juwan Howard’s first regular season as the Michigan men’s basketball coach featured no shortage of adversity.
So when the final buzzer sounded, it signaled a 83-70 dismantling of Michigan (19-12 overall,10-10 Big Ten). The Terrapins’ (24-7, 14-6) combination of outside shooting, offensive fluidity and dislodging of the Wolverines’ defense sealed the deal in the regular season finale.
Reviving Nebraska basketball is in Fred Hoiberg’s blood. He’s more than up for the challenge.
Teske and Simpson both spoke Thursday of the importance the coming weeks hold. All the emotions underscored the point. For Michigan’s two seniors, this is all ending as soon as they let it.
And on Thursday, when Michigan cruised past Nebraska for a second time, 82-58, it got to see just how far things have come in the last five weeks. The Wolverines are safely projected to be in the NCAA Tournament — those worries having been eradicated by going 8-3 since that day in January. Without Simpson, they cobbled together a win at Nebraska, and with him, on his Senior Day, they dispatched of the Cornhuskers with the senior guard directing traffic.
Since that March, when Simpson turned himself into the avatar of a Michigan team that won 14 straight games, blowing through the Big Ten Tournament and the NCAA West Regional, he has been the unquestioned leader of the program. On Thursday, he’ll play his last game at Crisler Center and be honored at Senior Night.
He doesn’t think he’ll cry. His dad, Quincey, probably will, he said.
When Juwan Howard took a seat at his podium to address the media on Wednesday, there was an unmistakable grin on his face.
Before long, it was evident why. The first-year coach began his press conference by delivering news that redshirt junior center Austin Davis will return for a fifth year with the Michigan men’s basketball team in 2020-21.
Just three days prior, Trice almost singlehandedly downed Michigan from behind the 3-point line en route to an away victory. Sunday afternoon, the Michigan men’s basketball team was left seeing double as Ohio State sank 11-of-21 from three, beating the Wolverines 77-63 in the process.