The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS 16 THE WOLVERINE FEBRUARY 2023 BY THE NUMBERS 5 Nonconference losses for Michigan basketball — Arizona State, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Central Michigan — the program's most since the 2014-15 season (also five), the last campaign in which it missed the NCAA Tournament. 34 Po i nt s fo r M i c h i g a n freshman guard JET T HOWARD in U-M's 93- 84 overtime loss at Iowa Jan. 12, the most by any Wolverine in a game since Daniel Horton dropped 34 in a 69-67 loss to Indiana on March 4, 2006. It marked the highest scoring total by any Division I freshman this season. Howard matched his career high in points (21), field goals made (8) and three-pointers made (5) in the first half alone. It was Howard's second game of the season with 20 or more points and his 14th time scoring in double figures. It was also his seventh outing with 3 or more made triples (he finished with 7 makes on 13 attempts). PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL 96 96 Points scored in the Fiesta Bowl, a 51-45 TCU win over Michigan, were the most scored in the event's history. It was also the highest-scoring College Foot- ball Playoff game since the CFP began in 2014. The third quarter was especially crazy, with 44 points scored. There were eight touchdowns scored in a nine- minute stretch that spanned from the third quarter to the fourth, including this TD by ROMAN WILSON. Michigan's 39 points scored in the second half were the third-most in a half by any team in a CFP game, behind LSU's 49 in the first half of the 2019 Peach Bowl and Oregon's 41 in the second half of the 2015 Rose Bowl. The Wolverines' comeback attempt still fell short, however. PHOTO BY DOMINICK SOKOTOFF When you operate in the highest altitudes of college football, any vulnerability you have can get exploited by a great team, or you can't afford to have a bad day. I think both probably happened [in a 51-45 loss to TCU in the CFP], but the material is there to come back again next year." — Michigan radio play-by-play commentator Doug Karsch "We just talked like, it's deeper than basketball. We had to figure stuff out within ourselves. Our main focus was to make sure we are fine, make sure we're a team and everybody is on the same page. I feel like we had a few guys thinking this, a few guys thinking that. We just got everything off our chest and let everyone know where our heads are at, how we feel. I feel like that was very important. It got everybody on the same track." — Freshman point guard Dug McDaniel on Michigan's players-only meeting following a 63-61 loss to Central Michigan Dec. 29