Without Owen Freeman, Drew Thelwell and Riley Mulvey, the Hawkeyes put on an inspired first-half performance. Seydou Traore scored 14 points. Pryce Sandfort had 13 off the bench. At halftime, the Hawkeyes led by four against a Maryland team with only one loss at home all season.

After losing to Maryland, Michigan is now 22-8 on the season and 14-5 in Big Ten play. Regardless of what happens against Michigan State and in the Big Ten Tournament, the Wolverines will likely get a top-five seed in the NCAA Tournament. However, they aren't going to win anything if they keep playing like this.

It's starting to catch up to them, continuing Wednesday at Crisler Center in U-M's home finale in which head coach Dusty May’s team turned the ball over too many times (16), didn’t make enough 3-pointers (seven) and played just another generally sloppy game that ended as a 71-65 loss to Maryland.