Postgame Notes: Michigan 56, Northwestern 54
1/17/2015 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 17, 2015
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• With today's win, Michigan improves to 109-56 all-time against Northwestern, with a record of 63-20 in games played in Ann Arbor. U-M has won seven straight in the series and 10 of the last 14 against the Wildcats.
• The Wolverines forced 12 turnovers from the Wildcats while turning the ball over a season-low three times themselves, including just once in the second half. U-M outscored Northwestern, 17-2, in points off turnovers.
• The last time U-M posted three or fewer turnovers in a game was during the 2013-14 campaign at home against Michigan State (February 23, 2014).
• U-M held Northwestern to only six free-throw attempts. The Wildcats had been averaging 16.5 attempts from the charity stripe coming into tonight's game.
• The Wolverines knocked down nine three-pointers tonight. It marked the 12th time this season that U-M has tallied at least eight triples in a game and the fourth time in six Big Ten contests.
• U-M swiped six steals from Northwestern in tonight's contest, led by three from Derrick Walton Jr., one shy of his career-high tally. The team's mark is right on par with its average of 6.2 steals per contest.
• Spike Albrecht was held out of tonight's game with an upper respiratory infection, ending his streak of 93 consecutive games played since joining the U-M program. Tonight's game marks the first time he has missed a game in his organized basketball career.
• Replacing Albrecht in the starting lineup was Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman, who made his first career start. Abdur-Rahkman finished with nine points (4-of-7 from the field) and grabbed five rebounds in 25 minutes of action, giving him career-best marks in points, rebounds and minutes.
• Caris LeVert finished with a team-high 18 points, seven assists, six rebounds and one block. LeVert is one of six players in the nation and the only in the Power 5 Conferences to lead his team in points, rebounds, assists and blocks this season.
• Derrick Walton Jr. tallied 14 points and nailed a career-high four three-point field goals.
• Attendance for tonight's game was a sold-out 12,707.
