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Matched up with the #2 team in college basketball this afternoon, Michigan Men's Basketball strung together a decently valiant effort but came up short with another short-handed roster, a loss chalked up to defensive rebounding and foul trouble, some legitimate and some suspicious. Like most games, Michigan led for a large swath of the first half before trailing for much of the game thereafter, but never let Purdue bury them, even with excessive fouling hamstringing a roster already missing the injured big man Olivier Nkamhoua. Michigan hung around and hung around but ultimately couldn't make enough of a charge late and lost by high single digits. The Wolverines are now 8-20 (3-14), with three games left in the regular season. Before the game, Michigan got word that they would be without guard Jaelin Llewellyn, who was originally listed as questionable (in addition to the injured Nkamhoua). Will Tschetter was back after missing the Northwestern game, but a Michigan roster t
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THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #110 Michigan (8-19, 3-13 B10) at #2 Purdue (24-3, 13-3 B10) WHERE Crisler Arena Ann Arbor, MI WHEN 2:00 PM Sunday THE LINE Kenpom: PU-13 Torvik: PU-13 TELEVISION CBS (streaming link) THE OVERVIEW With Dug McDaniel serving the first game of his six-game road suspension, Michigan went to Mackey Arena and actually gave the Boilermakers a hard time. Yes it a 99-67 blowout, but hear me out: the Boilermakers had to shoot 67% outside the arc, collect more than their share of bounces, and get Tarris Reed removed from the game early by a series of phantom calls to avoid the kind of 76-72 win with the dreck of the Big Ten that could raise a question in the press conference. That question would have been "Why do you think Edey was held to just 16 points?" and the answer is Tarris Reed was planting like an offensive lineman and refusing to let the Kenpom Player of the Year walk through him to the rim. Since Purdue beat Michigan by 32 points in their last meeting thin