Michigan wins on another late shot, beating Tulsa

Michigan wins on another late shot, beating Tulsa, Tournament time has become Michigan's time, abnormally those endure few drama-packed seconds. They've assuredly ample out how to handle them.

Zak Irvin hit a ambitious 3-pointer and a brace of chargeless throws in the closing minute as Michigan rallied at the end yet afresh on Wednesday night, assault Tulsa 67-62 in the Aboriginal Four.

The Wolverines (23-12) fabricated the bound from balloon aggregation to the NCAA Clash by affairs out a brace of abutting ones. They fabricated a brace of end-game shots for wins in the Big Ten Tournament, including one by Irvin that exhausted Northwestern.

His 3-pointer this time put the Wolverines up 62-60 with 52 abnormal to go. Irvin's two chargeless throws with 10 abnormal larboard beatific the 11th-seeded Wolverines into a antagonism adjoin battling Notre Dame in Brooklyn on Friday night.

And if that one comes down to the final minute, cipher will calculation them out.

"I'm just appreciative of how all of us accept been able to do this, starting in the Big Ten Tournament," said Irvin, one of four players in bifold abstracts with 16 points. "We've just got to accumulate that traveling forward."

Tulsa (20-12) got 23 credibility from Shaquille Harrison, but its senior-laden calendar couldn't accumulate up at the end. There were 5 ties and 12 advance changes in the agitated additional half. Afterwards Irvin's ambitious 3, the Golden Hurricane absent their next two shots and the Wolverines got the rebounds and hit the chargeless throws to abutting it out.

"Michigan had added break than us," Tulsa drillmaster Frank Haith said. "We didn't get the breaks, and that's what usually happens in those types of games."

Tulsa didn't even apprehend to get to the Aboriginal Four afterwards accident its aperture bold in the American Athletic Clash -- Harrison tweeted that the NIT was acceptable the next destination. The Golden Hurricane had one advantage over Michigan -- abundant added experience, with four starting seniors.

Michigan has alone two seniors, and both are hurt. But the Wolverines' adroitness for award a way in the final abnormal captivated up.

"The actuality that we won those amateur in the Big Ten Clash -- we hadn't had any of those games," drillmaster John Beilein said. "That was absolutely a affair we bare to learn."

In the Big Ten Tournament, Irvin hit a jumper with 3.3 abnormal larboard for a 72-70 win over Northwestern in the additional round. The Wolverines afresh agitated top-seeded Indiana 72-69 on Kameron Chatman's 3 from the appropriate bend at the buzzer in the quarterfinals.

Beilein anticipation his aggregation showed some of the abrasion of arena a lot of amateur in a few days.

"But we didn't feel it in those endure brace of account if we fabricated all the appropriate plays," he said.

The Wolverines had a lot of admirers in the stands at UD Arena, a three-hour drive from Ann Arbor. The blow of the army booed them audibly if they took the cloister for warmups and afresh during introductions, a admonition that they were in Ohio now.

They couldn't hit a 3-pointer -- a basic of their high-scoring breach -- and anguish up disturbing to put runs together. The Wolverines advance the Big Ten with 9.3 fabricated 3s per game, but went alone 6 of 25 from above the arc.

Tulsa advanced Rashad Smith askance his appropriate abate if he landed afterwards authoritative a bassinet that completed an 8-0 run amid through the aboriginal bisected for a 16-9 lead. Smith put little weight on the bottom as he went to the locker allowance for treatment, afresh alternate after in the bisected and got aback into the game. He accomplished with nine points.

Michigan's Derrick Walton Jr. fabricated a brace of 3s for a 28-20 halftime lead, the atomic credibility Tulsa had denticulate in an aperture bisected all season.

TOURNAMENT TIDBITS

Tulsa: Fabricated its 16th actualization and additional in three years. The Golden Hurricane are 12-16 all-time.

Michigan: Is 45-19 in the tournament, not including years if it had to abandon annal due to NCAA violations.

TIP-INS

Tulsa: The Golden Hurricane went 4 of 15 from above the arc in their AAC Clash accident to Memphis, banishment shots. Adjoin Michigan, Tulsa was 3 of 15.

Michigan: Freshman advanced Moritz Wagner blocked two shots all season. He had three blocks in the aboriginal 8 account and four overall.

UP NEXT

Tulsa: Loses seven seniors who played regularly, including starters Harrison, Smith, James Woodard and Brandon Swannegan.

Michigan: Plays sixth-seeded Notre Dame on Friday in Brooklyn. Michigan has won their two antecedent NCAA Clash matchups, in 1974 and 1976.
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