Notes & Quotes: Harvard 62, Michigan 51
12/1/2007 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
N O T E S
Tonight's game marked U-M's first game against former Michigan coach Tommy Amaker. With the loss, the Wolverines are 2-1 all-time against Harvard.
With his start at Harvard, Ron Coleman extended his consecutive games played streak to 107. He has not missed a single game in four years. In addition, Ekpe Udoh extended his own streak playing in his 43rd straight game for the Wolverines.
For the eighth straight game Michigan used the starting lineup of Manny Harris, Kelvin Grady, Ron Coleman, DeShawn Sims and Zack Gibson.
With his 13 points at Harvard, Manny Harris has now scored in double figures in all eight games this season. In addition, he en route to the U-M team-high, he tied his career-high with 17 field goals for the second straight game.
Manny Harris set a new career-high with 37 minutes of action at Harvard. It bettered the 34 minutes he had against Western Kentucky (Nov. 24) at the Great Alaska Shootout.
With his 12 points at Harvard, DeShawn Sims has scored in double figures in his last three games, and for the sixth time this season.
DeShawn Sims tied a career-best with eight rebounds at Harvard matching the eight he had at Wisconsin (Jan. 24, 2007) and against Army (Dec. 28, 2006). With his even split on the eight rebounds against the Crimson, he also tied his career-best with four offensive boards.
With his three blocks, Ekpe Udoh has recorded at least one block in all eight games this season and in his last 10 games for U-M. He now has 29 multiple block games in his career. Overall he has 92 total blocks in his young career, which is just one block away from cracking the U-M all-time top 10.
With his 12 points at Harvard, Ron Coleman has now scored in double figures in four of his last five games this season. Overall it was the 30th double figure scoring game of his career.
Q U O T E S
Michigan Head Coach John Beilein
On the game ... "You have credit Harvard. They played really well tonight. They are a good dribble drive team and their guards are pretty experienced. We just need to continue to work hard and try to improve with each game. We just have had so many games in a row. We have not been able to work on our mistakes whether that is passing, dribbling, or boxing out. We haven't been able to workout, we've been playing, playing and playing. We have not had a chance to rest."
On if the lack of practice has hindered the team ... "I am not using that as an excuse. I am saying that over the last two weeks, we know what it is like to play games. We haven't had a chance to make improvements because we can't go over the things we have learned in games in practice the way we would like to."
On prepping for Harvard ... "We really only had Thursday where we just really tried to step through things and Friday we had a short practice trying to go over everything and then we needed to rest. With only one day to that that it is really hard. My young guy's heads are spinning right now on how you play college defense. I actually thought our defense was pretty good tonight. I thought one of the big issues was blocking out and our offense and our fast break that gave us so much trouble. We had a lot of fast break opportunities and didn't score. I don't remember the last time we did a 3-on-2, 2-on-1 drill, it might have been eight days ago because we have been trying to save our legs and improve our halfcourt defense."
