its all about who gets hot in the conference Tournament. right now Michigan is hot take Simpson for example he came into the tourney shooting less than 30% from 3 then goes 2-2 against Iowa then goes 3-4 from 3 and is still under 30% from 3. go figure. players get hot and they win games.
players go cold and they lose
Wieskamp went in the game shooting 42+% and goes 0-2 from 3 shooting 49% from the field scoring just 3 points after avg'ing dbl digit all season long
Jordan was scoreless after avg'ing 11+ points per game
neither could buy a basket Michigan's D is good but not that good
Baer vs Illinois scored 17 points and score 0 vs Michigan,
again Iowa played their worst game of the season. I can live with that as it is part of the game and it has been thru out the history of BB
I remember when NCState needed to win the ACC Tourney to even get into the NCAAT. guess what they got hot and won the ACC getting the auto bid and then went on to win the NCAAT Championship.
so this arguing who is better at this point is meaningless. look at Illinois-Chicago who out of the MVC who went to the FF last season,