NEW YORK -- Deshawn Sims scored 18 points and Manny Harris added 15 to help Michigan upset No. 4 UCLA 55-52 on Thursday night in the semifinals of the 2K Sports Classic.
The Wolverines will face No. 10 Duke in the championship game Friday night. The Blue Devils beat Southern Illinois 83-58 in the first semifinal at Madison Square Garden.
With his team trailing 48-46 with 4:16 left, Stu Douglass hit a long 3-pointer to give Michigan the lead. Darren Collison was stripped on the other end, leading to a layup by Sims that made it 51-48 Wolverines.
UCLA cut the deficit to two when Josh Shipp made one of two free throws with 56 seconds left. After Michigan (3-0) worked the shot clock down, Anthony Wright found Sims on a backdoor cut for an emphatic, two-handed dunk that gave the Wolverines a four-point lead with 23.8 seconds remaining.
The Bruins (2-1) weren't done. Nikola Dragovic's 3-pointer with 5 seconds to go cut it to 53-52. But Harris hit two free throws and blocked Collison's potential tying 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Collison and Jrue Holiday each had 13 points to lead UCLA (2-1). Shipp, the Bruins' second-leading scorer, was stymied by Michigan's 1-3-1 zone. Averaging 12.5 points coming into the game, Shipp was held to just five on 2-for-9 shooting.
The Wolverines will face No. 10 Duke in the championship game Friday night. The Blue Devils beat Southern Illinois 83-58 in the first semifinal at Madison Square Garden.
With his team trailing 48-46 with 4:16 left, Stu Douglass hit a long 3-pointer to give Michigan the lead. Darren Collison was stripped on the other end, leading to a layup by Sims that made it 51-48 Wolverines.
UCLA cut the deficit to two when Josh Shipp made one of two free throws with 56 seconds left. After Michigan (3-0) worked the shot clock down, Anthony Wright found Sims on a backdoor cut for an emphatic, two-handed dunk that gave the Wolverines a four-point lead with 23.8 seconds remaining.
The Bruins (2-1) weren't done. Nikola Dragovic's 3-pointer with 5 seconds to go cut it to 53-52. But Harris hit two free throws and blocked Collison's potential tying 3-pointer at the buzzer.
Collison and Jrue Holiday each had 13 points to lead UCLA (2-1). Shipp, the Bruins' second-leading scorer, was stymied by Michigan's 1-3-1 zone. Averaging 12.5 points coming into the game, Shipp was held to just five on 2-for-9 shooting.
9 comments:
so much for all of you saying what until Pinkel leaves after the year! LMAO However you are stuck with mental midget Pelini for quite some time.
sucks to be you
Missouri's Gary Pinkel is expected sign a contract extension that will make him the third-highest paid coach in the Big 12 Conference.
as a true black and gold CU fan, I will always be running smack on your only-show-in-town, we've-wrapped-our-whole-state-identity-up-in-a-bunch-of-college-kids program.
YOU HAVE NOTHING ELSE! NOTHING! You pour every last resource you losers have into your one and ONLY DIVISON 1 PROGRAM. (We won't bring up the fact that you have no professional programs either.)
Despite that, you have not won a Big 12 Championship (or co-championship for that matter) this Millenium.
Once the recruiting playing field was leveled and Texas FORCED the Big 12 to eliminate PROP 48 Osborne could not recruits THUGS and you were fucked insatntly, people who are truly educated on the topic know this!
wait for it . . . .
NOTHING!
We hate your stupid team and we always will. And, we'll always be here to tell you about it.
2: Recruiting parity. You jackasses will never be able to admit this but you had virtually NO RECRUITING STANDARDS before the formation of the Big XII. You always go to Academic Allmerican bullshit but of course that totally misses the point.
The point is this -- you had a pool of talent from which to choose that the rest of the schools in the Big 8 did not have because of their academic standards -- KSU and OU being the exceptions.
Texas saw this and put their foot down, when the Big XII was formed, the recruiting standards were leveled across the conference. You guys were the ONLY SCHOOL in the Kansas City Convention Center meetings that year that fought it like hell and lost. Now that you have the same pool from which to choose and you can no longer recruit illiterate thugs you are stuck with getting left over recruits, sorry and God forbid soemone tell you the truth as opposed to the propaganda your local media feeds you and you all eat up like a baby being spoon fed.
Now go on and fire back and tell us how you are gonna stomp us next week...oh well we have other options, they are called professional sports. We dont go into social depressions like you guys do when we are bad.
Congrats, you have pro teams. We have cable and satelite and can basically watch whatever games we want. All your pro teams suck balls anyways. Now go back to your barista job at Starbucks you fucking hippie.
I find it funny that a post with so many misspellings is telling us to "educate" ourselves.
bait taken
Phil, whoever you are..I am pretty impressed with your knowledge of Prop 48, 99.9% of people have no clue about that and how it affected the entire conference.
ps-you like bush?
Buff Phil...Congrats on being a toilet black and gold fan!!! Maybe some of your classless fans can bring laser lights to the game next week to create an edge...oh wait you already tried to blind Zac R of Ok state and still got bitch slapped. As for Mizzurah...you've never one anything so I have nothing for you
hey Tick, that was a reeeeally lame rationalization. You might of well as said "yeah I admit our state is lame as hell and we have no lives outside of one team but hey we got a satellite TV!!!"
oh was there any misspellings in there Mr. Internet grammar police??
I love how you come on here and talk shit without even mentioning the game next week. Oh that's right, you know we're gonna destroy you so you don't want to bring it up and instead make fun of how boring our state is. I guess I'd be angry too if I was 30 years old and still lived in my mom's basement.
Go ahead and misspell all you want, just don't tell us to get "educated" in the same sentence.
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