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Jack Miller Foregos Fifth Year
[Bryan Fuller/MGoBlog]Sam Webb reported this morning that senior Michigan offensive lineman Jack Miller will forego his fifth and final year of eligibility. The returning starter at center will stay at...
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Michigan 73, Illinois 55
The Bielfeldt shot is more representative of today's game. [Patrick Barron/MGoBlog]The first two games between Michigan and Illinois this season featured a pair of improbable comeback victories, one by...
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Big Ten Tourney Preview: Wisconsin
THE ESSENTIALS WHAT Michigan (16-15, 8-10 B1G) vs Wisconsin (28-3, 16-2) WHERE United Center, Chicago, Illinois WHEN Noon ET, Friday LINE Wisconsin -12 (KenPom) TV ESPNRight: Michigan gets another...
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Brief Bullets: Illinios
Big Ten tourney time is always weird for content what with games on at noon.This was off an Irvin assist [Patrick Barron]The light is on. Midseason complaining that Zak Irvin hadn't added very much to...
View ArticleWisconsin 71, Michigan 60
The season may very well be over, and that might be for the best. This Michigan squad squeezed every last bit of talent and effort out of an undersized, overmatched, and exceedingly young group over...
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Spring Practice Presser 3-13-15: Jim Harbaugh
[file because today was a suit day]Your brother told us that you threw people out of practice yesterday.“I did?”That's what he said. Rick Leach too?/laughs“No, you'd never kick Rick Leach out of a...
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Dear Diary Sprinkles Cheese
Several large bright objects have been reported in the skies above Ann Arbor this week. One is almost certainly this "Sun" the ancients were always going on about. But before we declare spring and...
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Michigan Not Selected For NIT
Michigan did not make the 32-team field of the NIT, which was revealed in somewhat excruciating fashion over the last half-hour on ESPNU. John Beilein has already ruled out an appearance in the CBI or...
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There Is No College Basketball Scoring Crisis
"College basketball is facing a crisis. It’s time for an extreme makeover."-Seth Davis, 3/2/2015[Bryan Fuller]After a one-year surge in offense spurred by a sometimes-enforced focus on contact and the...
View ArticleMonday Recruitin' Steals Your Prom Date
Proposition JimI usually don't tweet things like this, so forgive me but this is just really too funny not to! haha #ImDonepic.twitter.com/Muk5ZcVYzd— Boss Tagaloa (@_BT75) March 14, 2015Top-100 CA DT...
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Goal-by-Goal Analysis: Michigan State
Friday, March 13, 2015Michigan State 3, Michigan 51st periodMSU 0 UM 1 EV 03:54 Dancs (3) from Compher (12) and Nieves (18)Michael Downing starts the break with a nice outlet pass through the defensive...
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MGoPodcast 6.19: Post Mortem
the nice bit of the tourney [Patrick Barron] BASKETBALLA three phase season, with the beginning promising, the middle terribly disappointing, and the end promising again, but for next year. The Irvin...
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Mailbag: Harbaugh Wedding Invite, Late Redshirts, Hockey Expansion
WHAT COULD GO WRONGHey Brian,Please publish this anonymously because my fiancé didn't even want me to take this picture.We're getting married at the Union this summer. Harbaugh is crazy, but not crazy...
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Jimmystats: Bracketology Week
Howdy bracketeers! Annual bracket building postisannual, though my predictions last year wound up pretty bad. First the tools and how to use them.Kenpom. The all-knowing. This year's best team not...
View ArticleHoops Recruitin' Sets Official
With the regular signing period for the 2015 class less than a month away, it's time for one of our every-so-often basketball recruiting roundups. Headlining this edition is a visit from one of the...
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Unverified Voracity's Hourglass Runs Out
A man who knew how to live.RIP Terry Pratchett. British author Terry Pratchett died on Thursday at 66, eight years after being diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's.Occasionally, people ask me about...
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Spring Practice Presser 3-17-15: John Baxter
News bullets and other items:This is not a drill: the spring game won’t be a punting competition. In Baxter’s words, “We won’t kick at all in the spring game [except] maybe field goals or...
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Dispatch From the Chrysalis
Patrick Barron / MGoBlogThese will be my general thoughts from the Big Ten Tournament. I’ll delve into the season at-large some other time.It was apparent for some time that Michigan would be locked...
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NCAA To End Transfer Waivers
Isaac tried to avoid the no-pads thing last year without success. Future Isaacs won't wonder about immediate eligibility, because the answer will be "nope." [Bryan Fuller]I must be the only person on...
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This Week's Obsession: Basketball Postmortem
In defense of 2015 [Fuller]The QuestionAce: There's no question this basketball season was a strange one. Michigan headed in with many question marks but high expectations, started off the season with...
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