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Hoops Opponent Watch: Them Apples Edition
Non-Conference Opponents RPI Effect Only Teams:It was actually a pretty good week for the non-abysmal non-conference foes. Long Beach State (5-11) beat Cal Poly. Holy Cross (7-9) beat Lehigh. Charlotte...
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One Thousand Years Old, Sure I'd Think That's Old
1/22/2014 – Michigan 75, Iowa 67 – 14-4, 6-0 Big TenIf this was a miss, it was his only one. [Bryan Fuller]Jordan Morgan is old. Not human old. He is ZZ Top Beard old. He's columns about Richard...
View ArticleThursday Recruitin' Rekindles Interest
Damien Harris Fallout: Back In It For Mike Weber?2015 five-star RB Damien Harris decommitted from Michigan this week. After Al Borges—his primary recruiter—was fired, Harris decided he needed to take...
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Unverified Voracity Is In, Is Out
The ineffable lightness of McGary. Via UMHoops, Mitch McGary and Jon Horford have different opinions about things. Did they play an Adam Sandler movie on the court at some point? Because this is how...
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Dear Diary and the Thing About State
The State of Our Thing With State. Since the Rose Bowl there's been a palpable "I don't wanna talk about it" feel on the board with regard to the in-state rival. The coaching carousel came and went...
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MSU From 1000 Feet
UNIMPORTANT ASIDE: Big Ten refs are… trying. The over and back rule requires both the ball and your entire body to be across the line to kick in.lolver and backCumong man.Anyway. On to the Titanic...
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Preview: Michigan State
Previously: MSU From 1000 FeetTHE ESSENTIALS WHAT Michigan at Michigan State WHERE Breslin Center, East Lansing, Michigan WHEN 7 pm Eastern, Saturday LINE MSU -5 (KenPom) TV ESPN/WatchESPN (PBP: Dan...
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Exit Thomas Rawls
MLive reporter Eric Woodyard has tweeted that Thomas Rawls is transferring to Central Michigan. The writing was on the wall for Rawls after being passed by not only two freshman tailbacks but—at least...
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Also Exit Josh Furman, Richard Ash
Come on guys, do you know there's a basketball game tonight?Anyway: along with Thomas Rawls, Michigan has announced that Josh Furman and Richard Ash are exiting the program. Both would have been fifth...
View ArticleWon The Game Muppets
Michigan's now alone in first place in the Big Ten, has won three straight games against top ten opponents, and won on the road in Madison and East Lansing. Muppets, if not posted, would spontaneously...
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Michigan 80, Michigan State 75
NIK STAUSKAS THA GAWDI apologize in advance for my inability to form complete thoughts. That game was excruciating right up until the point when it was glorious, which was... the very end,...
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This Was the Plan All Along
The plan was devised in a shadowy room several miles beneath Crisler Arena. It was kept secret from everybody—the officials, Tom Izzo's hair follicles, even his own teammates—until the last moment,...
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Best and Worst: The (First) Gauntlet
[ED-S: Bump]Unlike in football, where you have a game a week and, thus, all carry a pretty high significance, basketball has far more games with varying levels of import. Last year I basically started...
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Aneurysm Two
1/25/2014 – Michigan 80, Michigan State 75 – 14-4, 7-0 Big TenKeith Appling had just jumped on Caris LeVert's back from behind as LeVert was going up for a layup. Using LeVert's back as leverage,...
View ArticleMonday Recruitin' Topples Dominoes
2015 Quarterback Musical ChairsShould be awarded fifth star just for using early Black Keys.When Michigan named Doug Nussmeier offensive coordinator, five-star QB Ricky Town was committed to Alabama,...
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2015 Prospect Updates
Dramatization. The real song our coaches sing on road trips is ram-a-lamma-ding-dong. Insiders believe Nussmeier could be the tenor the staff has been lacking.The Michigan coaches have been traveling...
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Hokepoints: Rule Change Mythbusters
The ref is seeing what you are: there should be a few more banners up there.Somebody on the board over the weekend put up a thread mentioning some of the oft-repeated myths and memes in college...
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Unverified Voracity Rides The Dolphin
Pretty much. Midnight Maize returns with MS Paint sidearm:I do not know why Petway is riding a dolphin.Brackets. Surveying the panoply of brackets at the Bracket Matrix gives the impression that to...
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One Frame At A Time: Iowa & Michigan State
John Beilein, with 4:01 left, more enraged than he's been since Costco raised the price of tube socks:John Beilein, 1:33 of game time later:John Beilein is Walter White if Walter White is also Benjamin...
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