![]() WILL WADE: We just felt like we needed to keep the floor spaced. I’m proud of them for everything they’ve accomplished this year and fighting through the season. We just had some poor closeouts, some poor switches below the ball, and weren’t able to overcome them. Our guys played hard, gave all they had. We got the lead in the second half by six. We went on a scoring drive out there for 4 or 5 minutes. We had a pretty good working margin, got off to a great start, had a great working margin. The game got away from us I think at the end of the first half. WILL WADE: I thought it was a great game, high-level game. NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Second Round – LSU vs Michigan TV: CBS (afternoon games), TBS (primetime games) Locations: Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Hinkle Fieldhouse ![]() Michigan put the game out of reach with a pair of free throws by Brooks.Ģ021 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Remaining Schedule A missed shot in the paint by Thomas after a Michigan turnover forced LSU to foul and stop the clock. Smart and Thomas never stopped applying the pressure, cutting the Michigan lead to 84-78 inside 45 seconds to play. ![]() The Wolverines extended the advantage to 10, 80-70, with less than four minutes to play. However, Michigan again answered with the next nine points to gain a 67-63 lead and force LSU’s Will Wade to take a timeout. LSU scored the next seven points and a 12-3 run for a 63-58 lead following Thomas’ string-music three which forced a Wolverines timeout. The first 12 minutes of the second half was a see-saw battle, with LSU opening a 51-45 advantage with an 8-0 run only to see Michigan take a 55-51 lead with 10-0 run that started with consecutive three pointers by Smith and Brooks. Thomas led all scorers with 19 first-half points, while Brooks paced Michigan with 13 on 5-of-6 shooting. Michigan made 5-of-8 free throws during the span to take a 43-42 halftime lead. However, both teams cooled off in the final minutes of the half, as Thomas’ 16-footer in the closing seconds was the only field goal between the two teams in the final 3:40. The exciting offense continued over the next three minutes, as the teams matched field goals before the 3:17 media timeout with LSU holding on to a 40-38 lead. Three free throws by Thomas and an old-fashioned three-point play by Days gave LSU a nine-point lead, but Michigan answered with a three by Brown and a three-point play by Dickinson to cut LSU’s lead to 32-29 with 6:01 left in the half. The Tigers opened a 19-12 advantage and forced a timeout from Michigan Head Coach Juwan Howard.Ī blocked shot by LSU’s Trendon Watford led to a three pointer by Smart, who scored his first five points to push the Tigers’ advantage to 24-16 with 9:16 left in the half. He made five of his first six shots - all from at least 17 feet including a pair of contested three pointers - and scored 12 points in the first eight minutes. Bonaventure, Thomas and the Tigers started the game shooting well. In a stark contrast to its opening-round game against St. Franz Wagner made his final four shots of the contest for Michigan and finished with 15 points on 5-of-9 shooting. Seven-foot-one starting center Hunter Dickinson was a handful in the paint, collecting 12 points and 11 rebounds. The duo combined for eight three pointers. Michigan was led by guards Eli Brooks and Chaundee Brown, who each scored 21 points despite averaging 9.2 and 7.4 points per game, respectively. LSU managed only 39.1 percent from the field (27 of 69) but led for more 23 minutes while outplaying Michigan for a majority of the evening. Like Thomas, Smart’s scoring total (27) was two shy of a career high, while he grabbed nine rebounds and gave six assists with only one turnover. Smart, a junior guard from Baton Rouge, was also 10-of-23 shooting and made all five of his free throws. He became the sixth LSU player to score 30 points in an NCAA Tournament game. He made all seven of his free throws and played all 40 minutes. ![]() Thomas, an All-SEC freshman guard, had 19 of his 30 points in the first half and finished 10-of-23 shooting. ![]() Michigan (22-4), which led 43-42 at halftime, made 53.8 percent of its field goals, gained its largest lead midway through the second half and pulled away to advance to the Sweet 16. 8-seeded LSU (19-10), playing in the second round for the second-straight tournament, led by as many as nine in the first half (30-21) and six (51-45) early in the second half before succumbing to the Wolverines. LSU’s Cameron Thomas and Javonte Smart combined for 57 points in the NCAA Second Round, but it wasn’t enough to hold off top-seeded Michigan, 86-78, on Monday night in Lucas Oil Stadium. ![]()
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