They are young, but do have three starters back from a team that went to the Final game with Louisville last year. Good news...the other two are in the NBA.
They shot 50% from 3-point land against Texas, beating them by 13. I am not terribly impressed...including the loss to Michigan, Texas was only 4-6 down the stretch, including a loss to Texas Tech. FWIW, I didn't pick Texas to advance past the this game in any of my 11 brackets. I doubt seriously if they can maintain that shooting against us, that's unusually high for 3-point shooting.
Agree with what others say...not much inside game, depend on the outside shooting. They do have a really good point guard..Staukas, who oddly enough is from Ontario. Since when do Canadians play basketball.
I thought Richardson did a fine job on Hall today, I expect he can handle Staukas. Hall did get loose for some points in the second half though, but I like this match-up. I haven't checked every game, but we seem to have struggled with other teams that have size inside this year and Michigan doesn't have much there.
But the way Richardson and Barton are playing lately, who cares about rebounds, we can apparently just shoot our way to victory.
