Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg makes strong closing statement for Big Ten POY

Ann Arbor — If anyone needed more evidence for Yaxel Lendeborg’s case to be the Big Ten Player of the Year, he provided quite the closing statement. In Sunday’s regular-season finale against Michigan State, Lendeborg turned in one of his best performances as a Wolverine. He carried the offense and served as a point forward at times. He guarded any and every position. He rarely sat or got a breather. He delivered from start to finish with another stat sheet-stuffing outing: 27 points on 8-for-12 shooting, a perfect 6-for-6 on foul shots, a season-high five 3-pointers, three assists, three rebounds, a steal, a blocked shot and several highlight-reel plays in 38 minutes. “I think it’s pretty...