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How Michigan basketball's new wrinkle on defense could help it soar

Juwan Howard dissects Michigan's 79-69 win over Creighton, Nov. 12, 2019. Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press

Juwan Howard doesn't call it "drop coverage."

His players do, though.

Regardless of the term for it, Michigan basketball has unveiled a different method of defending ball screens.

And the Wolverines used their new scheme — let's call it drop coverage for simplicity — in Tuesday night's 79-69 win over Creighton.

“We have different coverages on how we play pick-and-rolls," Howard said Thursday. "It just so happens, for some adjustments that we made for that particular game, I just felt that coverage was one that we wanted to explore.