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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — With Phil Martelli taking over as interim Michigan basketball head coach as Juwan Howard is suspended for the rest of the regular season, he fell to 1-1, after having lost to Illinois on Sunday, 93-85.
The Wolverines had a spirited effort, battling from 15 down to within two in the waning minutes of the game, but the Illini were just too much down the stretch.
So what went right and what went wrong in Martelli’s eyes? For one, the defense struggled to settle in with the perimeter game that the Illinois offense presented, while Kofi Cockburn presented a major challenge in the middle and down low.
Here’s everything that Martelli said about the game after the fact.