Evanston, Ill. — Heartbreak and heartache.
That’s all Michigan has known its last three visits to Northwestern, all painful losses in their own respective ways.
The No. 5 Wolverines were staring at another possible gut-wrencher, letting a 15-point second-half lead slip away and giving the Wildcats a shot to win it with 11 seconds left at the newly renovated Welsh-Ryan Arena.
"If anybody has witnessed the last two games here in this arena," Michigan coach John Beilein said, "that bank shot goes in at the end."
But Ryan Taylor's last-second 3-pointer didn't. And for the first time since 2013, Michigan finally found good fortune in Evanston after hanging on for a nail-biting 62-60 win Tuesday night in its Big Ten road opener.