“I’m not losing this game. I can’t lose this game.”
Race Thompson turned to Trayce Jackson-Davis and Jalen Hood-Schifino and told them he wouldn’t let Michigan spoil his Senior Night. He was desperate.
Last season, the senior forward didn’t get to go out on top at Assembly Hall. Rutgers’ Ron Harper Jr. hit the game-winning 3-pointer right over Thompson’s arms. He decided to return to Indiana for one more year and in Sunday’s 75-73 regular-season finale win against the Wolverines, he flipped the script.
“The way that the game ended last year here on Senior Night was something that I’ll never forget and part of the reason I came back, really.