Michigan basketball falls apart in the final minutes vs. Vanderbilt in a 66-65 NIT loss
It happened again.
Michigan basketball Vanderbilt was ahead by eight with less than a minute to play. He then gave up nine straight points, made three consecutive runs and was called for the goalkeeping basket with 13 seconds left in the game.
Even then, the ball was down for 13 seconds to play.
Dug McDaniel on the final possession was unable to connect on a pontoon, Dickinson fisherman He couldn’t get a tip, and in the end, Michigan collapsed to fall in the second round of the NIT, 66-65, to Vanderbilt.
Michigan’s season ended (19-16, 11-9 Big Ten), after they turned a 12-point first half deficit into a 10-point lead in the second half.
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Finishing with 21 points and 11 rebounds, Dickinson scored 11 straight points in the second half for Michigan, turning a one-point lead into a double-digit margin. McDaniel finished with 19 points, one short of his career high, and scored 13 of them in the first half to keep UM in the game when they trailed by 12 points.
Joey Baker added 11, Williams six points and five rebounds and Taris Reid Jr. He has five points and six rebounds.
But the effort wasn’t enough for the short-handed Wolverines.
Jet Howard, the team’s second leading scorer (14.2 ppg) who missed the team’s first win over Toledo, suffered an ankle injury. Kobe Bufkin, who the telecast said broke his ankle in practice on Friday, was also knocked out.
Terrien Lawrence led Vanderbilt with 24 points and nine rebounds. Manjon scored 17 and Colin Smith added 11 for the Commodores, who will face the winner of the 4-ranked UAB Tournament and Morehead State in the NIT Quarterfinals next week.
Dickinson takes over, helping McDaniel lock the door
It was a quiet start to the day for Dickinson. He scored the opening bucket of the game, then did not add any more points for 17 minutes. He made two buckets late in the first half, which seemed to ignite his powerful final 20-minute spark.
The 7-foot-1 center made a left-handed hook off the break to go up three, then after Baker’s spinning throw, Dickinson added a base put to put UM back up.
Baker got UM’s next five points from the free throw line, while Vanderbilt blocked two Lawrence shots and one free throw by Wright to make Michigan 41-40 when Dickinson took over.
First, he got a feed from Terrance Williams Jr. and throw a slam. He added a spinning hook that shot on the next flight and followed when he caught a difficult pass from McDaniel and added another one-handed one.
Then, it was freshman Youssef Khayat’s turn to feed the big guy, which Dickinson turned into one end. Then, he added two more free throws to put the Wolverines up 52-42 with 10:52 to play.
Rapid collapse
Dickinson would not score from the floor again but after three free throws by Reed, UM led 59-51 with 5:08 to play.
Jordan Wright made a layup, then Lawrence scored five straight goals for Vanderbilt to come within five.
Baker and Trey Thomas appeared to trade the three points, but Baker was turned to two when replays showed his toe was on the line, so a five-point lead was changed to four. Baker and McDaniel added back-to-back middle-range players to put Michigan up 65-57 with 1:45 to play, but Vanderbilt squeezed the entire field and changed the game.
Lawrence scored five goals and Mangoun four to lead Vanderbilt 9-0 in 46 seconds to steal the game.
The first half of the runs
Michigan State got off to a fast start, when Dickinson hit the game’s opening combination and freshman Khayat — making his first career start and only his second appearance in a game since January 3rd. 1 – He nailed the fourth of his career, 3-pointers, to rise 5-0.
Vanderbilt took charge of the next seven minutes, which included a stretch where he kicked six consecutive field goals; 3-pointers by Colin Smith, a token layup and a dunk highlight by Terrien Lawrence, then eight in a row by Smith on a snapped layup and consecutive long balls from the right corner.
The Commodores held UM shooting to 0-for-6 with four turnovers over the same time to compile a 17-0 lead and go up 17-5 with 12:53 to play in the first half.
But the McDaniel and Williams tandem put UM back in the game.
Two downs later, Williams rebounded on an offensive rebound before McDaniel hit a float and 1. Williams added another offensive rebound and tipped over the ensuing possession before McDaniel dropped a mid-range jumper off the screen to make Michigan 9-0 cutting the lead to three.
Vanderbilt’s Paul Lewis drained a long ball off the top of the corkscrew to put Jerry Stackhouse’s six up, when McDaniel hit back-to-back three-pointers—the first on a pull, the second off roommate Trace Reed Jr.. to tie the match at 20.
Reed delivered the key minutes early as well, holding a holding error to tie the game at 22. He grabbed five rebounds in six minutes of the first period. After a Lawrence-and-1 dunk put up a high Vanderbilt lead 27-24, Michigan crossed the half with a score of 6-0.
Dickinson, who only scored the first points of the game, hit back-to-back passer-by buckets as UM restored a 30-29 lead at the break and passed the benchmark 1,600 points for his career.
All players not named Smith or Lawrence for Vanderbilt combined to go 4-for-15 from the floor for 11 points and 3 turnovers.
This article originally appeared on the Detroit Free Press: Michigan basketball collapses in the NIT loss to Vanderbilt
