jan 31st matchups...

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watched minnesota at michigan. thome scored 31 and had 6 rebounds. going to be some fun times when jess and thome matchup the next few years. flaherty had a tough start but finished strong.fairly close till late 2nd quarter where michigan went in at half with a good size lead (10?). minnesota came around late in the 3rd quarter and into the 4th, but, michigan pulled away the last half of that 4th quarter. believe a stat had michigan with 48 pts in the paint at one time---not sure how it ended. minnesota just didn't have an answer. believe banham ended up with 29. hedstrom was the one that was draining 3's for minnesota. 

 

noticed iowa defeated northwestern (home). wasn't northwestern (2-8, conference) rated as high as 14 at one time? probably has been, but, wonder if a team rated that high has had a collapse quite like we are seeing? i also believe they were picked 3rd in the bigten preseason? anyway, i still think they could be a dangerous team in the BTT---not to win it, but, make a deep run---but gonna have to pull it together.