Finally watched the game today, and everything changed after the 2 garbage foul calls on Murphy midway through the second half. The over-the-back was a terrible call, and it wasn't a foul. The charge was even worse. The guy completely flopped. Michigan took advantage with him out of the game. Gophers likely get the win if he's not on the bench.
Hurt had a couple close in shots that he just simply has to go up stronger and make, regardless of contact. IW got hit in the face on one of his baskets in the second half and there was no call. Even more amazing was our guys hacking Duncan Robinson 3 or 4 obvious times on the late in-bounds, and he gets called for a travel. It is what it is.
Great to see IW do what he does best, attack. Really encouraged by the overall effort and they didn't back down, even down 5 with less than 30 ticks to play. Play with that effort the rest of the season and get Coffey back (hopefully), and you should win some games. Keep in mind with everything going on with injuries and Lynch, there are 7 or 8 guys practicing. Hard to do much preparation when you can't go a legit 5-on-5 in practice.
I know it seems like a long shot, but don't completely rule out Lynch coming back. His appeal hearings are later this week, with a decision to follow I think within 5 days of the hearings.