It occurred once more.
Michigan basketball was up by eight at Vanderbilt with lower than one minute to play. Then it gave up 9 straight factors, dedicated three straight turnovers and was referred to as for a goaltending basket with 13 seconds left.
Even with that, it had the ball down one with 13 seconds to play.
On the ultimate possession, Dug McDaniel could not join on a floater, Hunter Dickinson could not get the tip-in to fall and ultimately, Michigan collapsed to fall within the second spherical of the NIT, 66-65, to Vanderbilt.
Michigan’s (18-16, 11-9 Big Ten) season is over, after it turned a 12-point first-half deficit right into a 10-point second-half lead earlier than, finally, one other crushing loss.
“We always want to walk away with some learning opportunities from a game like this but unfortunately we can’t play the next game because our season is over,” coach Juwan Howard informed reporters after the sport. “Appreciate the effort from our guys, in particularly in game we lost two of our star players. … Loved how our guys came out and competed.
“But ultimately, these possessions, that’s actually painful.”
Dickinson finished with 21 points and 11 rebounds, and scored 11 straight in the second half for Michigan, to turn a one-point lead into a double-digit advantage. After the game, he didn’t have much to say about the final minute.
“We simply gave them the sport,” he said.
McDaniel scored 19, one short of his career high, including 13 in the first half to keep the Wolverines in the game.
Joey Baker added 11 points, Terrance Williams II had six points and five rebounds and Tarris Reed Jr. had five points and six rebounds.
Jett Howard, the team’s second-leading scorer (14.2 points per game) who missed the team’s NIT-opening win over Toledo, was out with an ankle injury. Kobe Bufkin was out as well after tweaking his ankle in practice Friday, according to ESPN.
Tyrin Lawrence led Vanderbilt with 24 points and nine rebounds. Ezra Manjon scored 17 and Colin Smith scored 11 for the Commodores, who will face the winner of 4-seed UAB and Morehead State in next week’s NIT quarterfinal, with a trip to Las Vegas for the national semifinals on the line.
Dickinson awakens in second half
It was a quiet start for Dickinson. He scored the opening bucket, then had nothing for 17 minutes. He made two buckets late in the first half, which seemed to spark his strong final 20 minutes.
The 7-foot-1 center made a left-handed hook out of the break to go up three, then after a Baker spinning layup, Dickinson added a baseline layup to put U-M up one.
Baker got the next five U-M points from the free throw line, while Vanderbilt countered with two Lawrence layups and one Wright free throw to make it 41-40, Michigan, when Dickinson took over.
First, he caught a feed from Williams and threw down the slam. He added a spinning hook shot the next trip down, and caught a tough pass from McDaniel and added another one-handed flip.
Then, it was freshman Youssef Khayat’s turn to feed the big man, which Dickinson turned into an and-1 finish. He then added two more free throws to put the Wolverines up 52-42 with 10:52 to play.
“Coach was drawing up some actually good units, placing me in positions,” he said. “My teammates have been actually unselfish in on the lookout for me on the market.”
A quick collapse
Dickinson didn’t score from the floor again, but after three Reed free throws, U-M led 59-51 with 5:08 to play.
Jordan Wright made a layup, then Lawrence scored five straight to get Vanderbilt within five.
Baker and Trey Thomas appeared to exchange 3s, but Baker’s was changed to a 2 when replay showed his toe on the line, so a five-point lead was changed to four. Baker and McDaniel added consecutive midrange jumpers to put Michigan up 65-57 with 1:45 to play, but Vanderbilt turned on a full-court press and changed the game.
Lawrence scored five and Manjon scored four as Vanderbilt went on a 9-0 run in 46 seconds to steal the game.
“We turned the ball over — what’s it, three straight occasions? — on only a easy play,” Howard said. “One was a cross and the man mishandled the basketball, the opposite a crosscourt cross, which was a troublesome catch for a participant, then the opposite one was one other cross.
“Very uncharacteristic for us as a team”
First-half runs
Michigan received off to a fast begin, when Dickinson hit the sport’s opening bucket and the freshman Khayat — who made his first profession begin and his second look in a recreation since Jan. 1 — nailed his fourth profession 3-pointer to go up 5-0.
Vanderbilt took over the following seven minutes, which included a stretch wherein it made six straight discipline targets: a 3-pointer by Smith, a layup and spotlight dunk by Lawrence, then eight straight factors by Smith on a slashing layup and consecutive 3s from the proper nook.
The Commodores held U-M to 0-for-6 capturing with 4 turnovers throughout the identical time to place collectively a 17-0 run and go up 17-5 with 12:53 to play within the first half.
But the tandem of McDaniel and Williams received U-M again within the recreation.
After two misses, Williams tipped in an offensive rebound earlier than McDaniel hit a floater and the following foul shot. Williams added one other offensive rebound and tip-in on the following possession, earlier than McDaniel knocked down a midrange jumper off a display screen to make it a 9-0 Michigan run and minimize Vanderbilt’s result in three.
Vanderbilt’s Paul Lewis drained an extended ball from the highest of the important thing to place coach Jerry Stackhouse’s squad up six, when McDaniel hit consecutive 3-pointers — the primary on a pull-up, the following off a handoff from his roommate Reed to tie the sport at 20.
Reed offered key minutes early as properly, making a putback off a miss to tie the sport at 22. He had 5 rebounds in six first-half minutes. After a high-flying Lawrence and-1 dunk put Vanderbilt up 27-24, Michigan closed the half on a 6-0 run.
Dickinson, who hadn’t scored aside from the primary factors of the sport, hit consecutive buckets within the lane as he gave U-M a 30-29 lead going into the break, and crossed the 1,600-point benchmark for his profession.
All gamers not named Smith or Lawrence for Vanderbilt mixed to go 4-for-15 from the ground for 11 factors and three turnovers.
“There’s different emotions going on in your head,” Howard mentioned when requested about find out how to summarize the season. “It’s important for us right now to get dressed, get back home, get a good night’s sleep — hopefully we can — and then we talk about (that) when we get back to Ann Arbor.”
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