Posts By Max Marcovitch
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2.9K2020-21 SeasonMike Smith is right where he belongs
There was a brief span in early 2018 when then-Columbia assistant Jared Czech saw what the best version of Mike Smith might...
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2.3K2020-21 SeasonNo. 1 seed offers a chance to reflect, then start anew
For the Michigan men’s basketball team, Selection Sunday marked a chance to both reflect on a season worth celebrating and gear up...
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2.3K2020-21 SeasonFive takeaways from Michigan’s loss to Illinois
It was a familiar scene: One team running around with its shorts on fire, feeding off its bench on the way to...
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8.2KRecruitingFour-star center Donovan Clingan ‘excited’ by Michigan offer, chance to develop relationship with Howard
Tuesday night, 7-footer Donovan Clingan of Bristol, CT opened Zoom and tried to envision a future. Michigan’s coaching staff sat on the...
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2.6K2020-21 SeasonThis team is really good. But could it be the best in modern Michigan history?
It was February 6, 2018, in a hollowed Allstate Arena. Michigan had lost to a lowly Northwestern team, scoring just 52 points....
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2.1K2020-21 SeasonFive takeaways from Michigan’s loss at Minnesota
For months, all Michigan had done was win. And for months, a single question grew: What can go wrong for this Wolverines...
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2.8K2020-21 SeasonFive takeaways from Michigan’s win over Wisconsin
There are no more equivocations. There’s no more wondering what Hunter Dickinson will look against Big Ten bigs; no more questioning whether...
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2.8K2020-21 SeasonNorthwestern offers test of Michigan’s defensive dichotomy
At halftime of Michigan’s game Thursday night, Maryland had piled up nine 3-pointers on 11 attempts. Yet Michigan still led, 46-44, having...
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4.4K2020-21 SeasonThe state of the center position following Austin Davis’ injury
Hunter Dickinson was always a freshman in name only. Dickinson, 20, is nearly a year older than sophomore Franz Wagner. He left...
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1.9K2020-21 Season‘The head of the snake’: Michigan’s defense counting on Brooks’ defensive evolution
After Cassius Winston torched Michigan to the tune of 32 points and nine assists in the first matchup between the Spartans and...
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2.4K2020-21 Season‘COVID Rules, fellas’: Why Juwan Howard is in no rush to trim his rotation
Through two Michigan basketball games, 10 different players have played double-digit minutes. The leading scorer in the opener against Bowling Green, Chaundee...
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2.0K2020-21 SeasonNotebook: Michigan stresses defense; Livers and Davis named captains
To some extent it’s hard not to make rash conclusions based on the first 40 minutes we’ve seen from Michigan basketball in...
