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Monday Recruitin' Busted On The River
Michigan Out For McDowell?Michigan entered last weekend with one last shot at impressing Malik McDowell before the top-50 prospect from Detroit made his Signing Day decision. With McDowell's parents...
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2015 Names To Watch: Brandon Wimbush
Position: QuarterbackHt/Wt/40: 6'2" / 212 lbs. / 4.6Location: St. Peter’s Prep School – Jersey City, NJOffers: Boston College, Connecticut, Maryland, Miami, Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers,...
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Hokepoints Doesn't See a Regional Trend
Yesterday Ace posted a link to the full Lemming recruiting rankings from 1990 to 2004. Just perusing the list is pretty interesting, since accessible recruiting data on a national scale otherwise only...
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Mailbag: Sports Randomness Rankings, Important Holder Question
anecdotal comparison demonstrates that the best basketball player ever, Michael Jordan, was considerably better than the best baseball player ever, a chimpanzee named Carl who led the 1883-1884 Erie...
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Picture Pages: Yogi Makes Baskets
Indiana took down Michigan on Sunday due to two things: their pick-and-roll defense, explained in excellent detail by both UMHoops and Inside The Hall today, and Yogi Ferrell's blitzkrieg from beyond...
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In-State Recruiting Battle Update: Best Players in Michigan Edition
Left: The Perfect Spartan [Fuller]. Right: Drake Harris [Josh Hemholdt/Rivals]Tomorrow is Signing Day. If you live in the state of Michigan, that means you'll be hearing from your nearest Spartan about...
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Team 135's Fresh Faces
Schembechler Hall will be buzzing all morning as National Letter’s of Intent arrive in the football offices via fax machine. Team 135 plans to add nine new members as the remaining verbal commits make...
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Signing Day Liveblog wsg Brandon Williams
Gonna start around 10 a.m.“I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or god, convince a thousand cats to do read the liveblog chaos mitigation post before entering.” ― Neil GaimanAbout Go Blue Then and...
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2014 Signing Day By The Numbers
Comparing individual classes of recruits can be a very challenging exercise. Due to each school’s different position each year and internal standards, classes can vary from mid-teens to over 30 signees...
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Preview: Nebraska
THE ESSENTIALSWHATMichigan vs NebraskaWHERE Crisler Center, Ann Arbor, MichiganWHEN6:30 pm Eastern, WednesdayLINEMichigan -12 (KenPom)TVBTN (PBP: Eric Collins; Analyst: Stephen Bardo)Right: Terran...
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Michigan 79, Nebraska 50
Shooter [Bryan Fuller/MGoBlog]After consecutive makes from beyond the arc, everyone in the building save one man within earshot of the press area knew Zak Irvin was putting up another one. "Shoot it!"...
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Hoops Opponent Watch: Digging Deep
Non-Conference OpponentsRPI Effect Only Teams:Let’s face it. UMass-Lowell (7-14), Houston Baptist (4-18), South Carolina State (8-14) and Coppin State (8-14) are all undeniably bad, were poor...
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Nebraska Bullets
2/5/2014 – Michigan 79, Nebraska 50 – 17-5, 9-1 Big TenA demolition that was into Kenpom time as fast as any game I've ever seen, so straight to various things about various things. Highlights:So...
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Thursday Recruitin' Crawls For The Team, The Team, The Team
Signing Day: It Happened, I GuessOFFICIALLY OURS NOWBy the time I was able to get my laptop to start yesterday*, Michigan had already received LOIs from every committed prospect, and Malik McDowell...
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Dear Diary Craps on Sochi
Soady two-holer > Sochi two-holer One of the mods already put this in a thread but a front page reminder can't hurt: don't post scores or spoilers of Olympic events on delayed telecasts. This goes...
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Unverified Voracity Isn't Perfectly Accurate, Surprise
Penn State on the docket. Michigan goes to Happy Valley for their first-ever games against the nascent Nittany Lion program. As you might expect, Penn State is not particularly good. They're 4-17-1 on...
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Preview: Iowa
THE ESSENTIALSWHATMichigan (17-5, 9-1 B1G) at Iowa (17-6, 6-4)WHERE Carver-Hawkeye Arena, Iowa City, IowaWHEN2 pm Eastern, SaturdayLINEIowa -5 (KenPom)TVESPN/WatchESPN (PBP: Bob Wischusen; Analyst:...
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Iowa 85, Michigan 67
There's no way I'm recapping, uh, that on a Saturday afternoon. Consider this an open thread (as always, keep it civil) and try to keep in mind that Michigan bounced back pretty well from a similar...
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This Isn't Titled "Welp" But Might As Well Be
2/8/2014 – Michigan 67, Iowa 85 – 17-6, 9-2 Big TenDid you know it took like three hundred years for people to agree that they should not spell a lower-case F like they spell a lower case S?I know it...
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Monday Recruitin' Checks The Fax Machine
McDowell's: Still Open For BusinessMalik McDowell committed to Michigan State last Wednesday, so why is he leading off another recruiting roundup? Well, his mother still refuses to sign a LOI that...
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