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NEW YORK -- Zak Irvin led five players in double figures with 16 points and Michigan pulled away late in the first half for a 79-61 victory over Marquette in the second semifinal of the 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden Thursday night.Muhammad-Ali Abdur-Rahkman and reserve Mark Donnal added 15 points apiece for Michigan (3-0), which led for the final 33-plus minutes and beat Marquette for the 14th time in 20 meetings.Michigan will face SMU in the championship game Friday. Marquette will face Pittsburgh in the consolation game.The Wolverines shot 59 percent in the first half and 51 percent overall.Luke Fischer led the Golden Eagles (2-1) with 19 points, Hannif Cheatham added 12 and JaJuan Johnson contributed 11 but it was not nearly enough as Marquette shot 41 percent and committed 15 turnovers.Marquette trailed by 29 early in the second half and made a slight dent in the lead with about 6 1/2 minutes remaining when Matt Heldt scooped in a layup through a double team after nearly fumbling the ball away to make it 67-53.Michigan did not let the lead slip below 12 and sealed the win when Irvins 3-pointer late in the shot clock spun around the rim before going in with about a 4 1/2 minutes remaining. On the next possession, D.J. Wilson converted an alley-oop baseline dunk and free throw for a 73-57 advantage.Marquette held a pair of one-point leads early in the second half and stayed with Michigan until around the eight-minute mark. Already leading 28-20, Michigan scored 10 straight points in a span of 2:05 and held a 50-26 lead at halftime.BIG PICTURE:Marquette won its first two games by double digits over Vanderbilt and Howard, getting away with shaky first halves. The Golden Eagles averaged 36.5 points in the first halves those games but against a higher level of competition, Marquette was held to 26. The first four possessions of the second half did not go well either as the Golden Eagles were called for traveling twice and were not close on two 3-point attempts.Michigan made 342 3-pointers last season, the most in school history, and the third time under coach John Beileins spread offense the Wolverines made at least 300. Michigan is off to a good start again from long range. After going 16 of 45 in its first two wins, the Wolverines were slightly better Thursday with a 9-of-23 showing.UP NEXT:Marquette will face former Big East foe Pittsburgh in the 2K Classic championship game Friday.Michigan will face SMU in the 2K Classic championship game Friday. Lionel Hitchman Jersey . Reigning world champion Eve Muirhead of Scotland opened with a 12-2 rout of Winnipegs Jennifer Jones in a battle of teams bound for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Torey Krug Jersey . -- If this was Aaron Gordons final home game at Arizona, and it almost certainly was, then he went out in style. http://www.cheapbruinsjerseyschina.com/ .5 seconds to play in the game, Kevin Love never stopped believing that they would come out of there with a win. Riley Nash Jersey . The next step is a better finish. Bae played bogey-free Friday on another gorgeous day at Riviera for a 5-under 66, giving him a one-shot lead over Aaron Baddeley and Robert Garrigus going into the weekend. Brad Marchand Jersey . -- Timbers coach Caleb Porter didnt stray from his business-like approach to the season even after Portland downed the two-time defending league champion Los Angeles Galaxy to gain crucial playoff position. The two-time defending Olympic champion Brazil women are chasing a golden three-peat on home soil this summer. The top-ranked Americans are seeking redemption in Rio and their first gold ever.This is the rivalry to watch in the womens volleyball tournament.The Americans expected to win gold four years ago in London and instead were stunned by the Brazilians, who captured their second straight Olympic title.Now, the Brazilian women have home court, so beating them in Rio would be even more monumental.And coach Karch Kiralys close-knit U.S. squad believes it has built the right mix to challenge for the top spot on the podium this August in Rio de Janeiro. The Americans have developed a culture they are counting on being the right one.Ive never seen anybody win a competition like the Olympics without getting through massive adversity along the way, and the way you do that is to have the team that fights really hard for each other and makes each other better and adds up to more than the sum of their parts, Kiraly said. When our adversity came at us, it wasnt until the final match of the Olympics and we werent powerful enough. We didnt add up to enough more than the sum of our parts to be able to withstand the storm that came at us.The American women have dealt with challenges already preparing for Rio. They had to get there the hard way -- through a second-chance qualifier in January at Lincoln, Nebraska, after losing twice at last years World Cup in Japan for bronze, with the top two teams securing their spots then for Rio.Brazil coach Jose Roberto Guimaraes led the mens team to gold at the 1992 Barcelona Games and then the women the past two Olympics, and he has several players from both of those winning teams back for the run right at home in Rio.The Brazilian women would become the first to capture three straight gold medals in womens volleyball since Cuba in 1992, `96 and 2000. China won in 2004 at Athens.Kiralys team will be in the same six-team pool with China just as it was in London. The Americans beat China in the 2014 world championship, while China won last years World Cup in Japan.Here are some things to watch in the Rio Games volleyball tournament, which became part of the Olympic program in 1964:NO LONDON SWEEP: The Brazilian men were so close to making it a sweep of the top podium spot in London, then Dimitriy Muserskiy and Russia changed the plan. The Russians captured their first mens volleyball gold in 32 years with a comeback five-set victory, even saving two match points in the third set for a 19-25, 20-25, 29-27, 25-22, 15-9 victory.Former Brazil captain Gilberto Godoy Filho, known as Giba, was one of the games most celebrated stars who led Brazil to gold in Athens. He said farewell in London after 16 years with the national team.FORMAT: In both the mens and womens tournaments, there will be two six-nation pools with the top four from each advancing.The pools were divided based on teams with the highest world ranking aas of Jan.dddddddddddd 1 being placed first into Pool B after host Brazil was automatically put into Pool A.On the womens side, Serbia returns to the Olympics for the first time since 2008 in Beijing.YOUTH MOVEMENT: U.S. mens coach John Speraw has embraced a youth movement with the Americans, choosing eight first-time Olympians to his roster to join veterans such as four-time Olympian Reid Priddy and David Lee headed to his third Olympics.This group won the 2014 World League title and last years World Cup, so those championships alone have helped the U.S. gain valuable experience on the world stage.For us to have been at the top of the podium a couple times this quad, it does give a young team confidence they can win a tournament, Speraw said. Certainly thats our goal. They believe they can do that. They believe they can win a gold in Rio.RUSSIAN SCANDAL: The meldonium doping scandal that has tainted many Russian athletes, including tennis star Maria Sharapova, extended to volleyball, too. Russia outside hitter Alexander Markin tested positive for the substance in January following the semifinal match against Germany at the 2016 European Olympic Qualification tournament. Markin was temporarily suspended while the FIVB, volleyballs international governing body, considered the case. The FIVB found that Markin committed an anti-doping rule violation but bore no fault or negligence in this case and reinstated him. The panel also found that the amount of meldonium in Markins sample was so small that it likely did not enhance his performance, and therefor did not impact Russias qualification for the Rio Games.DONT COUNT OUT CHINA: While much of the focus in Rio will be on the battle between the U.S. and host favorite Brazil, the Chinese womens national team could surprise everyone. China is ranked No. 2 under coach Jenny Lang Ping -- the former U.S. coach who led the Americans to silver in Beijing. Lang Ping was known as the Iron Hammer during her playing days, and helped guide the Chinese women to victory in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. She stepped down as coach of the Americans shortly after the Beijing Games to devote more time to her family, but took Chinas top post in 2013. Earlier this year, Lang Ping married Wang Yucheng, a religious studies professor.RUSSIAN WOMEN REGROUP: The Russian women have had to heal during this four-year cycle, and now they will chase their first Olympic medal since earning silver at the 2004 Athens Games.After failing to medal at the London Olympics after coming into the tournament as a contender, the Russian women suffered an unimaginable loss.Their coach, Sergei Ovchinnikov, died at age 43 while working at a training camp in Croatia only a couple of weeks later. Russia lost in the quarterfinals in London to Brazil.---AP Sports Writer Anne M. Peterson contributed to this report. Discount NFL Jerseys Discount NFL Jerseys Jerseys From China Wholesale Jerseys 2019 NFL Jerseys Cheap Wholesale Jerseys China Cheap Jerseys Wholesale ' ' '
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