The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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scrambling to keep him blanketed — and then to cover the open floor space that sort of attention creates. Robinson can do more than chuck threes, attested to by his 34 assists and the occasional slashing drive to the bucket. He pulled that off in the wan- ing moments of the Maryland game, slicing in for a reverse layup that rees- tablished a four-point Michigan lead with 5:05 to play. Still, he's averaging 12.1 points per game and all but 11 of his 72 field goals are from beyond the three-point arc. He nailed 5 of 9 against the Terra- pins, while missing one from so wide open that Beilein looked genuinely stunned talking about it. "Wasn't that unbelievable?" Beilein said. "That was his worst miss of the year, and it was the most open he's been all year. But his little baseline drive and finish on the other side was pretty good. "We all love coaching him. Every day after practice, he thanks me for coaching him. He thanks everybody on the staff." They're probably giving thanks in return, not only for Robinson but also for others who have begun coming through. Junior center Mark Donnal seemed buried so deep on the Michigan bench, he needed a backhoe to extricate him- self. He averaged 9.8 minutes per Redshirt sophomore wing Duncan Robinson ranked third in the country for three-point shoot- ing through Jan. 17 at 53.5 percent. PHOTO BY PER KJELDSEN