Dug McDaniel scored all seven of his points in the final three-and-a-half minutes to help Michigan pull out an 83-75 victory over Lipscomb on Saturday.
Hanging onto a just-reacquired 1-point lead with two-and-a-half minutes remaining, Dug McDaniel got the ball on an inbound. He tried going off a screen but his defender went under it. He went left but the paint was packed. He went up, the ball went down, and Michigan survived another one of those games. While Lipscomb came in with a reputation for playing up or down to their opponents, Michigan's own reputation for that is now in stone, after needing to overcome a 4-point deficit to the #205-ranked Bisons late in 2nd half. While the flow was different this time Michigan held a double-digit lead for big chunks of the game the how was similar to difficulties they had against EMU (#301) and Ohio (#194): unserious early rotations, bad defense, and most distressingly, some clear holes in a very unsettled rotation. Even with Lipscomb back-cutting them to ribbons early, Jett Howard was taking advantage of a huge size difference to keep up, and it felt like Michigan only needed someone