BTT 2021: Michigan vs. Maryland Open Thread

Now that I think about it, there has a been a pretty recent rivalry between UM and Maryland.

In 2019, I believe it was their student section that chanted “UGLY” or something along those lines at Iggy. And then last year, they were trying to win the Big Ten and there were some strong feelings with X involved IIRC.

Now we have the Hunter/Turgeon/Morsell/Juwan beef!?!

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I loved the Yak/Dre/Saddi trio. Meyer/Lavall/Bacari certainly are up there. But something up Phil/Eisley/Saddi feels so perfect. They all do different things, have different roles, and excel at all of them. Idk if it’s a perfect coaching staff, but I’d go to war with those guys every day.

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But seriously…are the post game pressers streamed to the public?

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Most of that was on Morsell in my opinion. He has been jawing for some time. He is the one who went to half court to confront our players and coach. Morsell also gave Dickenson a shot late in the game after the Michigan score. I have no respect for the kid based on what I saw. Seriously, he should have received tech as well. Looking forward to hearing the rest of the story.

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Phil is absolutely hilarious here. Love that Eisley had to pull him back

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Prob been carrying a chip on his shoulder since the Franz elbow (which was as non-intentional as it gets, of course)

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Hold that 3rd L my guy

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Absolutely unintentional, unlike the shot he gave Dickinson.

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I think we’ll get the postgame press conferences on Big 10 Network between games here.

Drama aside, I was super happy that Maryland ended up as our opponent. MSU is still a Q2 neutral game where as Maryland is Q1.

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If the audio can be confirmed from Turg, then that’s a worse look for the program than anything Morsell did out there.

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Dylan, which five minutes are you going to post for the presser? :grinning:

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Looking forward…if Mike Smith and Eli play this well, we’ll be playing basketball for a while.

How about Eli getting his kinks out early and then being a force? Amazing to have that worked through given where we thought we stood before the game.

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Meanwhile while our game was wrapping up UVA and Kansas are both out of their tourneys with positives…

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How about MIKE SMITH!?!

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This seems like BS to me - it would be out of context and A LOT to say in something that happened pretty quickly.

My feeling is that Howard was getting close to half-court and someone probably rudely told him to get the “F” away.

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We need to get healthy too - especially if Livers did turn an ankle. Eli certainly looked 100% after a rough first five minutes - but hopefully his ankle stays strong (3 games in 3 days is a lot)

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Oof, that ratchets up the discomfort level that it’s reached a second conference…

If we play and lose, we lose. If we get knocked out by COVID, it will be a forever disappointment given it’s our first 1 seed in 18 years.

I think there were comments about dirty plays - which could’ve led Turgeon to go down that road.

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