Michigan Basketball: 5 takeaways from the Wolverines 2018-19 season

Michigan peaked in November and December, not February and March

There are a lot of things that you can say about this Michigan basketball team, but one of them is that for a stretch of games in the first two months of the season, the Wolverines looked as good as any team in college basketball.

Michigan notched some impressive wins early in the season beating Villanova, North Carolina and Purdue, all handily, by double digits as UM got off to a 17-0 start and was ranked as high as No. 2 in the AP poll.

It was an incredible run, however, the Wolverines couldn’t sustain it. Michigan notched some great wins in the second half of the season, beating Minnesota three times, sweeping Maryland, beating Wisconsin and taking down Iowa, yet Michigan let three great chances to beat Michigan State go by the wayside and that will always define this season.

If Michigan played one of those games in November, it would probably be Big Ten champions right now. Instead, the Wolverines will have to settle for reaching the Sweet 16 after peaking way too early unlike the past two seasons.