Hoops Preview: Purdue, Big Ten Championship Game
THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #9 Michigan (27-7, 13-5) at #5 Purdue (28-5, 15-3) WHERE Madison Square Garden New Yooooooooork, NY WHEN 4:30 pm ET LINE Purdue -3 (KenPom) Purdue -3.4 (Torvik) Purdue -3.5 (Vegas)...
View ArticleBack To Back Big Ten Tourney Champs Muppets
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View ArticleMichigan 75, Purdue 66, Big Ten Tournament Champs
BIG NASTY. [Marc-Gregor Campredon]Four wins. Four days. A trophy.Old hat.For the second straight year, Michigan pulled off the improbable and ran through the best the Big Ten had to offer for a...
View ArticleMGoPodcast 9.20: The Rational Take on Beilein
1 hour and 10 minutesWe are at the Residence Inn Ann Arbor Downtown, which is down to EIGHT conference rooms after that tourney, so book now before there are no rooms left!We Couldn’t Have One Without...
View ArticleSnips, Fingernails, And Spartan Dawg Trails
[Marc-Gregor Campredon]I still don't believe in Zavier Simpson. I do not believe that Simpson explored the theoretical upper reaches of the backboard as he flipped up a Layup In Name Only over Dutch...
View ArticleThe Big Ten Tournament In Photos
All photos/words by Marc-Gregor Campredon.First day: Iowa The game was dreadful and the Garden was quiet like a cemetery at midnight. I could even hear the officials talking to the players and the...
View ArticleThe Chaos Is Back In Town
3/2/2018 – Michigan 6, Wisconsin 5 – 19-13-3, 11-10-3 Big Ten 3/3/2018 – Michigan 7, Wisconsin 4 – 20-13-3, 11-10-3 Big Tenkeystone flops [Bill Rapai]Just when you think Michigan has banished chaos...
View ArticleThe Grandmaster: How Beilein Beat Painter
The net may as well be the heads of his enemies. [Marc-Gregor Campredon]On its face, it's an odd decision. After Michigan made only three three-pointers in the first half of the Big Ten championship...
View ArticleGoal-by-Goal Analysis: Wisconsin, Big Ten Tournament
[Bill Rapai]Friday, March 2, 2018#3 Michigan 6, #6 Wisconsin 5[Note: numbers refer to BTT seeding]1st periodCALDERONE GOALUM 1 UW 0 EV 1:40 Assists: Marody & CecconiCecconi puts some mustard on a...
View ArticleUnverified Voracity Explores Zero And Uh... Nero? Hero?
[Marc-Gregor Campredon]If it keeps going like this I'll learn to spell "renaissance" correctly on the first try. Rob Dauster on Michigan's elite... defense? That is what the card says. Defense. As...
View ArticleConference Tournaments Rooting Guide (thru Friday)
[Marc-Gregor Campredon (oui, CE Campredon)]After playing a compressed schedule then four games in four days Michigan gets to watch the rest of college basketball sort out their seed resumes this week....
View ArticleThe Journey At The Big Ten Tournament
The Journey has discovered the word "ass," and it is good. That single concession has opened up a large world of coach and player talking from which to draw from, and the result is a hagiographic...
View ArticleMichigan Hockey Rooting Guide: Week 24
Cutler Martin has never shied away from crushing Buckeyes [Bill Rapai]Corsi Table Game 1Game 2Game 3Game 4Michigan57(17)53(19)4355Ohio State69(25)57(21)2331Hmmmm. What can we extract from all of this?...
View ArticleOne Frame At A Time: Big Ten Tournament
There are a ridiculous number of GIFs from the Big Ten title run. Instead of attempting to rank all of them or cram everything into one post, I've changed the format up a bit, breaking up the GIFs by...
View ArticleThis Week’s Obsession: The Banner Gallery
[This and the other photos by MG Campredon]THIS ARTICLE HAS A SPONSOR: It’s Nick Hopwood, our MGoFinancial Planner from Peak Wealth Management. That means things like retirement savings and life...
View ArticleWTKA Roundtable 3/8/2018: It Wasn’t a Switch
Things discussed:Hit some threes with some weird guys. Michigan’s matchups vs MSU are all too good. Can’t cover up Winston’s defensive deficiencies the way Michigan spaces you. Michigan’s coaching is...
View ArticleConference Tournaments Rooting Guide Update
[Marc-Gregor Campredon (oui, les Campredons qui fait le bon vin)]After some somerootingguides by the users popped up we made our own, and now that we're deeper in I've updated it. I’ve highlighted the...
View ArticleUnverified Voracity Pissed Off People In Practice
i can see it [Marc-Gregor Campredon]Jordan Poole annoyed everyone into being mean. That's Ace's take on the season, no doubt, and uh…"It was just aggressive," Jordan Poole said last week in Ann Arbor,...
View ArticleMoving Picture Pages: Iowa and Nebraska
Now that the bounty of Big Ten Tournament GIFs has been posted, I wanted to revisit the weekend's tactical battles like I did with Monday's post on the Purdue game. Today's post will cover the Iowa and...
View ArticleMichigan Hockey ‘17-18, Game #37: Ohio State 3, Michigan 2
*NOTE: Special Teams attempts were not taken out of the shot charts. So, I am including total numbers. They will then be edited out tomorrow, hopefully.OFFENSE CorsiHousePossession %First Period 12 3...
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