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Don’t tell me that regular season games don’t matter in college basketball. If you were watching this game and you weren’t either standing, sitting on the edge of your seat, or in my case, alternating between calisthenics and falling to my knees in despair in my living room, then you don’t get college basketball. Sure, Ohio State and Michigan are both going to the tournament (probably as top four seeds), and there’s a decent chance one of them will come away with the Big Ten tourney title and both may grab a piece of the regular season championship, but don’t tell me there wasn’t plenty on the line in this one. Third-ranked Michigan’s pride, after a loss to Indiana and a loss to these Bucks last time, and three point shooting kicked in and overcame tenth-ranked Ohio State’s defensive prowess as we witnessed one of the signature games of the college basketball season, a 76-74 overtime thriller where Michigan pulled it out at home, in a classic of Aaron Craft give and take. There will...
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