Takeaways From Michigan's Road Victory Over Washington

The No. 4 Michigan Wolverines bounced backmost from its first nonaccomplishment of nan play against Wisconsin this past play pinch a victory complete Washington connected Wednesday night connected nan roadworthy to move to 15-1 (5-1 Big Ten) connected nan season.

Here are immoderate takeaways from nan win.

Morez Johnson Jr. provides large spark pinch power down low

Coming disconnected a crippled wherever nan Wolverines' bigs were dispersed retired by Wisconsin's perimeter shooting, nan Wolverines seemed to effort to make it a constituent to return advantage of their size down debased against nan Huskies.

Washington held beardown successful nan overgarment successful a batch of ways, but from nan jump, Johnson was progressive connected nan solid and was a facet successful some scoring nan hoops and connected nan solid while astir signaling a double-double successful nan first half.

Johnson's 16 rebounds were a career-high arsenic he besides vanished pinch 16 points connected 6-of-12 shooting.

Mara ultra businesslike connected nan violative extremity

Fellow large man Aday Mara is reliable to grip erstwhile he catches nan shot heavy successful nan paint, arsenic he usually finishes down debased erstwhile he catches it deep.

Mara did a bully occupation of winning position against nan Washington bigs much times than not, but nan Wolverines did a bully occupation astatine getting him unfastened looks by getting into nan paint, drafting thief and dishing passes disconnected to him for easy buckets.

Mara vanished pinch 20 points successful 23 minutes connected 10-of-11 shooting, but only secured 2 rebounds arsenic Michigan will request him to beryllium much effective connected nan solid erstwhile he's successful nan game.

Elliot Cadeau finds foul problem for 2nd consecutive game

Against Wisconsin, Cadeau picked up 2 fouls and had to travel retired of nan crippled successful nan first half aft nan Wolverines took a 14 constituent lead arsenic nan Badgers made a large tally while he was connected nan bench.

In this one, Cadeau picked up 2 speedy fouls during nan second portion of nan first half owed to nan Wolverines switching him onto bigger players and Cadeau grabbing disconnected nan ball.

Then, Cadeau picked up his 4th pinch 6:57 to spell connected a questionable call. Dusty May and nan Wolverines request him to enactment retired of foul problem for nan discourtesy to run arsenic efficiently arsenic they want it to.

Even though Cadeau didn't people successful nan game, he was nan Wolverines' leader successful assists pinch six and helps springiness nan discourtesy building moreover erstwhile he isn't scoring erstwhile he's astatine his best.

While choppy astatine times, Michigan started to find hit connected some ends

Any triumph connected nan roadworthy successful nan Big Ten, particularly coming disconnected of a loss, is surely a bully one, particularly against a Washington squad that came successful playing coagulated hoops complete its past fewer games.

However, nan Wolverines still aren't rather clicking connected each cylinders while still going done immoderate shooting woes, only hitting 5 of its 23 three-point attempts connected Wednesday.

In nan 2nd half, nan Wolverines were capable to get to nan rim disconnected respective shot surface actions connected their measurement to shooting complete 60% from nan section successful nan last 20 minutes arsenic they started to find an violative groove.

On nan protect end, Michigan put successful a overmuch amended effort than it did against nan Badgers while holding Washington to nether 40% shooting from nan field.

There were still immoderate connection breakdowns, peculiarly erstwhile Michigan allowed defender Quimari Patterson to get basking from nan three-point statement for a spell (who vanished pinch 13 points), but overall, it was a coagulated protect effort for nan Wolverines.

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