Takeaways from Michigan’s stunning buzzer beater victory over Rutgers

Jacob Singer is a student at the University of Michigan majoring in Political Science. He is a Michigan Football and Basketball Writer for Maize and Brew

It may have been the basketball equivalent of an Iowa-Minnesota football game in Lincoln Monday evening, but it was a classic Big-12 football showdown on Thursday evening — a whole lot of offense and a lot of nothing on defense between the Michigan Wolverines and the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on the hardwood.

The Wolverines just needed to continue to stack wins in Big Ten play as the season comes closer to concluding. But for Rutgers, sitting at 7-10 in the conference, the Scarlet Knights needed to win out to give them a chance at making the…