Monday, December 10, 2007

More on the Kentucky Win

The Michigan Daily had a couple of articles about the game. The last few moments of the game:

Up two points with the clock winding down, Michigan center Krista Phillips blocked Kentucky guard Samantha Mahoney's layup attempt.

The ball landed in Clement's hands, and the guard was fouled with four seconds left.

Clement stepped to the charity stripe and calmly knocked down both free throws to seal the Wolverines' victory.

And this one talks about, among other things, the continuing battle with turnovers:

After a gritty 63-59 victory over Kentucky, Michigan coach Kevin Borseth said his team was lucky to pull out the win.

Looking at how Michigan has handled the ball recently, he might be onto something.

Five of the last six games, the Wolverines committed more turnovers than their opponents.

But this time around, Kentucky couldn't take advantage. The Wildcats translated 22 Michigan turnovers into just 10 points.

In each of their three losses this season, the Wolverines have allowed an average of 26 points off turnovers. And at 20 turnovers a game, Michigan is on pace to turn the ball over more than last season (19.1 per game). If the Wolverines don't cut this number down, good teams will pounce on their mistakes, which they learned many times last season.

Despite the sloppy play at both ends of the court Saturday, Michigan battled through the 14 ties, 17 lead changes and general sloppiness of the game on both ends of the court.




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