Orchard Lake St. Mary’s goalkeeper, Trey McKenney, is Michigan M. Basketball
Trey McKenney, from Orchard Lake St. Mary’s, named Hal Schram Michigan Mr. Basketball Ginner at the Detroit Free Press Office Monday March 10, 2025.
- Michigan shooting has been poor in recent weeks, many players experiencing a significant drop in the percentage of 3 points.
- Wolverines will have to rediscover their shooting touch if they hope to take a deep race in the Big Ten tournament.
During each of the last two seasons, Michigan basketball has been one and made in the playoff series, with a defeat of the Big Ten tournament in the second round in 2023 and a defeat in the first round last year.
No matter what is happening, Wolverines are guaranteed to last longer in the conference tournament this year, at least in time – as 3 series heads, they start in the quarter -finals on Friday (with Purdue at 6 seeds) at 9 p.m. in Indianapolis as a final team to denounce the Big Ten’s elimination series.
The time of the point of Gainbridge Fieldhouse is late, but the head coach Dusty may not complain of a few overtime; As he pointed out, after five games in 13 days to end the regular season, his team certainly needed time to work on itself.
“We have not lost faith; We know what type of players they are, ”said May about her collapse team. “(We) also let them know that you don’t have to go out and mark 30 to help this team win. Just make an agitation game, get an offensive rebound. “”
Of course, even if the Wolverines are again in one and in fact in the Big Ten, they can exceed the last two seasons by presenting themselves next week: after having missed the NCAA tournament during the consecutive seasons, the Wolverines are already locked in March Madness.
However, UM is in a unique place – probably to the seeded for the NCAA, but in the middle of a descending spiral, having lost three consecutive games and four of their last six. Although it doesn’t look like this right now, as May knows, the playoffs bring a clean slate. This is why his team has a goal this week: play better before it becomes everything or nothing.
“I think the teams get up and fall with a good game,” said May. “I think back to the best races on which I was – there were games where the great men had monster matches, and there are matches when the guards took over. But playing well and solid team basketball and on the ground, whether it is your playmaker or your advantage forward, it is important to make a very good sound of good direction in the field. “”
As the coach has already been known in a Final Four, All hope is not lost.
Wolverines were not impeccable despite their ascent of an 8-24-year-old record. They returned the ball more than any other Big Ten team, and finished near the bottom of the peloton in defensive rebound. However, even with these difficulties, the Wolverines spent enough time at the top of the Big Ten ranking.
But May knows that a UM race in Indianapolis begins by recovering his shot. Of the 10 players in the Wolverines rotation, nine of them have drawn worse on 3 points since the beginning of February than they did in the three months preceding this.
(The one with better figures? Sam Walters, which was released with an injury last month.)
Neither Vlad Goldin ni Roddy Gayle Jr. hit a 3 -point in more than 45 days, Justin Pippen is 1 for 9 above this range and Rubin Jones and LJ Cason are 3 for 18 – 16.7% – to each of the ground. Then there is the playmaker Tre Donaldson, which increased from 42.9% in 3s His of the first three months to less than 30%.
Even Nimari Burnett increased from 44% to a shooter of 34.6% in 3s while Danny Wolf (11 for 35) reached less than 33.3% beyond the arc in the last six weeks. Michigan, which has not shot better than 35% in 3s since the beginning of February, A series of 11 games in which Wolverines are 360th in the country (out of 365 teams) in 3 -point shooting.
May did not let go of words on what he thinks it would mean normally.
“On March 10 (if you had said that to me), I would say that I am probably on a plane on March 10 to go recruit … that we probably did not do the Big Ten tournament”, he said “in full transparency, I do not think we would have 14-6-I think we will be 6-14 if you told me that we were going to shoot 30% in the Big Ten season.”
“But we have guys who will make shots, without a doubt in my mind.”
It should start this week in Indianapolis.
Tony Garcia’s prediction for Michigan basketball against Purdue
The two teams are heading in the wrong direction after dividing the regular season series. None of the two pulls as he wants, but we play in his original state. The choice: Purdue 75, Michigan 69.
Tony Garcia is the Beat Wolverines writer of Michigan for the Free Press of Detroit. Send him an email to apgarcia@freepress.com and follow him on x @Realtonygarcia.
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