Defend the Block 302 - Purdue Recap
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🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Wolverines shined in their first Big Ten Tournament game by surging past Purdue and earning a spot in Saturday's semifinals. Brian Boesch and Terry Mills react to the 86-68 victory. Then, our postgame interviews begin around the 10-minute mark and feature Head Coach Dusty May, freshman L.J. Cason, graduate student Rubin Jones, and junior Tre Donaldson. The episode concludes with a full highlight recap of Friday night's big win!
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| 0:00.0 | On January 24th, Michigan traveled to Purdue, squared off with the boiler makers at Mackey Arena as one of the nation's early surprises. |
| 0:08.5 | One year after Michigan finished 3 and 17, last place in the Big Ten, Michigan sat at 6 and 1 in conference play, |
| 0:15.9 | looking to prove that they really had a championship-type team. |
| 0:21.3 | The Wolverines did not have a championship-type performance on that Friday night. |
| 0:25.7 | Far from it. Purdue jumped out to a 13-2 lead. |
| 0:29.2 | Dusty-may called a time-out, and all that did was continue the avalanche. |
| 0:33.4 | Purdue scored 16 of the games next 23, led 29 to 9, and the game was over. |
| 0:38.8 | Michigan, in that ballgame, committed 22 turnovers. |
| 0:42.8 | The second meeting for Michigan against Purdue, at home, February 11th, Michigan did win it by 275.73, |
| 0:50.0 | but the Wolverines only led for 3 minutes, 14 seconds. |
| 0:53.5 | It felt more like an escape than it felt like a comprehensive victory. |
| 0:58.9 | Michigan got it done like they had so many times in the regular season. |
| 1:03.3 | Close, narrow, thrilling. |
| 1:05.7 | But 14 and 6 speaks for itself. |
| 1:08.5 | But Michigan entered this Big Ten tournament with a three-game losing |
| 1:11.9 | street. They lost by a combined about 14 points per ballgame. Michigan had not won since |
| 1:17.9 | Namari Burnett knocked off Rutgers at the buzzer on February 27th. And when Purdue |
| 1:23.7 | jumped out to a six-to-nothing lead, it certainly felt like it could tilt to January 24th. |
| 1:29.2 | It could go back to Michigan's final three games of the regular season until it most certainly |
| 1:34.7 | did not. Michigan counterpunched times two, a 12-0 run to take a lead that they would never |
| 1:41.5 | relinquish. Michigan ended up leading for 37 plus minutes |
| 1:46.6 | in this ballgame. And until the waning moments when the game was decided, the Wolverines |
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