College Basketball
Northwestern vs Michigan – 1/13/19 College Basketball Pick, Odds, and Predictions
Northwestern Wildcats vs Michigan Wolverines College Basketball Sunday, Jan 13, 2019 (7:30pm est) Current Odds: Michigan -12.5, Total Points 127

After allowing opponents to make just 42.6 percent of their field goals last season, when it made the national championship game before falling to Villanova, the Wolverines have been even stingier. Teams are canning only 39.5 percent from the floor and 30.6 percent from the 3-point line.
Fifteen of their 16 opponents have scored beneath their season average.
“Part of defense is really simplifying things so your guys know what to do,” Yaklich said to mlive.com.
With Yaklich’s defense complementing Beilein’s balanced, mistake-free offense, Michigan might be headed for the first weekend in April again. Seven players average between 7.7 and 15.9 points per game, led by freshman forward Ignas Brazdeikis, who was recently placed on the 25-man Wooden Award midseason watch list.
The 6-foot-7 Brazdeikis lit up Northwestern for a game-high 23 in the teams’ first meeting, although it was Jordan Poole who supplied the winning bucket on a driving dunk with 2:09 left.
The Wildcats had three possessions after Poole’s jam. Typically, the UM defense delivered. The Wolverines forced an offensive foul from Ryan Taylor with 1:53 left, then induced a pair of 3-point misses from Taylor around Law’s missed layup to secure their closest win of the season.
To hear Beilein talk, his team still has growing to do. A loss feels inevitable in a Big Ten that possesses three other top 25 teams and as many as nine other NCAA Tournament teams.
“I think we’re still growing,” he said to mlive.com. “We’re going to have peaks and valleys coming up. And how we handle those will be important.”
If Law is making shots in the rematch, Beilein might get an early glimpse of how Michigan handles a valley.
411Winners Pick and Prediction: Northwestern +17/Over 122 (5pt Teaser -130)
