SerbianHitMan

March 19th, 2018 at 2:34 PM ^

Not only did they not guard the throw in, but Rob Gray had his back to the play.  You face the thrower it probably gets intercepted or at least tipped.  Kelvin Sampson is dirty as the day is long.  He's way up there with Eddie Sutton, Joe B. Hall, Calipari and Pitino.  Got what he deserved.  Ruined Indiana's program.  Got what he deserved.

SerbianHitMan

March 19th, 2018 at 3:10 PM ^

Basketball theory states never have your back to the ball because you can't see what's going on.  Well executed and complete choke job.  You can't coach a shot like that.  You can only hope it plays out and goes in.  Nevertheless Kelvin Sampson is a cheating bastard and how he is back in the NCAA as a head coach is unfathomable.

SerbianHitMan

March 19th, 2018 at 2:36 PM ^

Houston was a top ten team earlier in the season and finished in the top 25.  Very good ball club defensively.  Gotta make ur free throws.  Davis went 7 for 7 and then 1 of his final 4.  I call that pissing down both legs.  I think you could see the puddle at the charity stripe while Poole was running around after the buzzer beater.

TrueBlue2003

March 19th, 2018 at 4:08 PM ^

and then missed 1 of 4 to go 9/12, which is still better than his season avg.  But to Brian's point in the gamer, the order in which he made his FTs made him the goat (lowercase) even though they were only leading because of his good FT shooting to that point.

Blue and Joe

March 19th, 2018 at 2:10 PM ^

Michigan probably didn't deserve to win that game, but there have been plenty of games they did deserve to win and they lost. That's how sports works sometimes. I'm sure Sampson has won games he didn't deserve to win. Have some perspective.

Blue and Joe

March 19th, 2018 at 2:31 PM ^

Scoring more points means you win, but the score doesn't say anything about how those points were earned.

What if the refs had made a ludicrous call like saying Poole stepped out of bounds and the shot didn't count? Would you then say Houston deserved to win when the refs clearly affected the outcome?

TheCool

March 19th, 2018 at 4:19 PM ^

That's not what happened here though. The entire game was close and neither team outplayed the other. Poole made the play to win, regardless of how miraculous it was. If there was a ridiculous amount of luck involved or a terrible call/one-sided officiating, that would be different.

Blue and Joe

March 19th, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^

I'm just saying there are things that can impact who "deserved" to win that are not reflected on the scoreboard. Michigan felt it was close because they played bad. Houston felt it was close because they played good. One side feels like they were unlucky, the other is just happy to escape.

TrueBlue2003

March 19th, 2018 at 2:13 PM ^

There was nothing about that game that suggested we wouldn't win 7 out of 10 times.  We shot poorly from three and that was an anomaly. End of story.  So if he wants to think they were better because we were unusually bad, fine.  That may have been the case on this particular night...but only for the first 39:57 of course.

MaladjustedStrong

March 19th, 2018 at 9:31 PM ^

I mean, if you can a very lucky three point shot at the buzzer to win by ONE POINT, can you really, really make a strong argument that the guy is wrong?

I know this is a Michign Blog and Groupthink is in full armor, but let's face the fcts: Michigan got lucky.

And sometimes being lucky is better than being good.

On a sidenote, it has probably been mentioned, but I have yet to get the feeling Michigan is in synch. They are rusty from not playing for 11 days and they now get four more days off?

sum1valiant

March 19th, 2018 at 10:15 PM ^

Michigan shot 26.7% from three and 35.6% from the field. This is a team that shot 36.4% and 46.7% on the season. The disparity might be explained by Houston playing solid D, but it wasn't like we didn't get open looks- we just couldn't buy shots. Rather than calling it luck for michigan, I think Houston's luck simply ran out at a very unfortunate time for them.

1201 S. Main St.

March 19th, 2018 at 2:18 PM ^

If Poole misses that 3, I think a majority of people here would say Michigan had an off night and that the best team didn't win.  Idk what Sampson is supposed to say.  They had chances to win and put the game away, they didn't and lost by one point.  When a game is that close for the entire game, both teams have an argument that they were "the better team".  I obviously think Michigan is the better team, but a real solid argument could be made that Houston played better than Michigan and should have won the game.  That said, Kelvin Sampson is a cheating SOB and how he keeps getting NCAA coaching jobs is beyond me, so to hell with him.