THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #38 Michigan (3-1) vs #207 Ohio (1-2) WHERE Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, MI WHEN 7:30 PM THE LINE Kenpom: M -17 Torvik: M -13 TELEVISION BTN THE OVERVIEW The greatest university with the word Ohio in its name faces non-directional non-correctional Michigan for the first time since knocking the 2011-'12 Big Ten champs (first Trey Burke team) out of the first round. Fortunately that is not the first round upset by Ohio that anyone but us remembers anymore. Michigan has already dispatched one MAC team with green and white as its color scheme in Detroit this year, but that was a near run thing, and Eastern has actually fallen to the 300s in Kenpom since then. Ohio lost by a point at Belmont (#151), handled Cleveland State at home, then went cold from deep at Detroit Mercy last Wednesday. Michigan's coming off a hamblasting of Pitt on Thursday followed by a Friday pasting at the hands of an Arizona State team that shot twice its average from the floor. This should
Let’s start with my appreciation for and thanks to Kenny Klein, U of L’s retiring SID.
He is, as has been universally reported, a professional of the highest order. And a mensch.
My personal.