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Point Spread: Michigan Slight Favorite in Revved-Up Showdown With Indiana
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — As soon as the Big Ten basketball schedules came out, this Indiana-Michigan gane got circled by everyone involved. And with good reason.
This is been one of the best rivalries in the league for decades, but it takes on a more personal feel this year because of first-year Michigan coach Dusty May, who’s an Indiana graduate and a former student manager during Bob Knight’s last four years as head coach in Bloomington.
May, who took Florida Atlantic to the Final Four in 2023, is one of the hot young coaches in the country and Indiana, a mess the last two years, announced Friday that it is moving on from Mike Woodson during his fourth season. So it will be a revved-up environment at Simon Skjodt Assembly Hall on Saturday afternoon. The game starts at 1 p.m. ET and is nationally televisedf by CBS. (Link to our ”How to Watch” story is below.)
Indiana has lost six of its last seven games, and is an underdog again. Michigan is a 2.5-point favorite according to the oddsmaker at the FanDuel.com gambling website. The over/under is 152.5
Indiana won its first 10 home games this season, but has lost its last two to Illinois and Maryland. With only eight games remaining — five at home — this is a must win for the Hoosiers if they want to keep their postseason hopes alive.
Here’s what we know so far about how Indiana and Michigan have fared against the point spread this season.
UPDATE … Michigan is 17-5 on the season, and 9-2 in Big Ten games. Purdue and Michigan State also have two losses. The Wolverines have been ranked as high as No. 14 in the country, but have also dropped out of top-25 twice, too.
Michigan is 4-2 on the road in the Big Ten, and they’ve got two of the best wins away from home, knocking off ranked teams Wisconsin and UCLA. Indiana just got blitzed at Wisconsin on Tuesday, so we all know how hard it is to win in Madison. The Wolverines have done. They’ve lost at Minnesota in overtimne and got blitzed by 27 at Purdue. That’s a much different environment than Assembly Hall, though.
Michigan is 11-11 against the spread, which the oddsmakers have to love. They haven’t covered lately, though, failing six straight times despite going 4-2 straight up.
Here’s what the Wolverines have done this season, both straight up and against the spread.
RIPLEY COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for two young children in Indiana.
Police in Ripley County, southeast of Indianapolis, are looing for the children who may be siblings.
The first child is 3-year-old Aaliyah Buckingham.
She was last seen wearing a pink cat shirt and tie-dye shorts.
The younger child is 1-year-old Shane Buckingham, last seen in a red shirt and diaper.
Police think both are with 45-year-old Timothy Buckingham, who was last seen driving a brown GMC truck.
Timothy is described as a 6′ 3″ white man weighing 225 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
Photo of Timothy Buckingham provided by Indiana State Police
Police have not confirmed the relationship of the three, or why the children are believed to be in danger.
Anyone who sees the three are asked to contact the nearest police department.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A firefighter for the Indianapolis Fire Department was sent to the hospital Wednesday after battling a fire at a vacant house.
According to a Facebook post made by IFD, the fire happened around 10:15 a.m. at a house on Bluff Rd. IFD says that there were several complications, including limited access to fire hydrants and “interior hoarder conditions” that IFD says was due to squatters.
The injured firefighter received “slight injury,” the Facebook post said.
It took over an hour and a half to get the fire under control, according to IFD, and another hour to put out all the remaining hot spots in the building.
According to IFD, the cause of the fire is currently unknown. Their Fire Investigations Unit is working on figuring out what caused the fire.
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