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12/13 21:35 CST Yaxel Lendeborg scores 29 points and No. 2 Michigan stays
unbeaten with 101-83 win over Maryland
Yaxel Lendeborg scores 29 points and No. 2 Michigan stays unbeaten with 101-83
win over Maryland
By PATRICK STEVENS
Associated Press
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) --- Yaxel Lendeborg had 29 points, a career-best nine
assists and eight rebounds, and No. 2 Michigan rallied from a nine-point
deficit Saturday night to defeat Maryland 101-83.
Aday Mara scored 18 points for the Wolverines (10-0, 2-0 Big Ten), who overcame
a halftime deficit for the second time this season and the first since they
beat TCU on Nov. 14.
Michigan scored 100 points for the fourth time in five games.
Diggy Coit made eight 3-pointers and scored 31 points for the Terrapins (6-5,
0-2), who lost center Pharrel Payne to a right leg injury late in the first
half and forward Solomon Washington to ejection after he picked up his second
technical foul early in the second half.
Coit scored nine of Maryland's first 10 points and 22 before the break, helping
to prevent Michigan from opening a lead larger than six in the first half.
The Terps lost Payne, their leading scorer at 18.7 points a game, with 4:36
remaining before halftime. Yet Maryland stretched its lead from one to 50-45 at
the midpoint, then expanded it to 56-47 on Elijah Saunders' 3.
Washington, who had a first-half technical for celebrating a 3 in front of the
Michigan bench, was called for a delay-of-game technical just after Saunders'
basket. His departure left the Terps without their two most experienced and
imposing interior players.
Lendeborg took advantage, scoring the next eight points. Mara's dunk with 14
minutes left made it 64-63 and gave the Wolverines the lead for good.
Elliot Cadeau's layup with 21.2 seconds remaining got the Wolverines to 100
points for the fifth time this season.
Up next Michigan hosts La Salle on Dec. 21. Maryland visits No. 24 Virginia on Dec. 20. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball
Up next Michigan hosts La Salle on Dec. 21. Maryland visits No. 24 Virginia on Dec. 20. ___ Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball
