Chad Ford was available to the media as part of ESPN’s coverage of the NBA Draft Combine and answered a couple questions about Michigan’s participants for UM Hoops. On Trey Burke: After two years of watching him, I think scouts have his game down. They...
Conventional wisdom has kept Tim Hardaway Jr. out of the first round of this year’s NBA Draft. The junior out of Michigan still has a ways to go toward improving his handle, consistency and shot selection. Hardaway is doing all he can to alter this...
Dustin Johnston The UM Hoops Mailbag is a collection of questions tweeted (@umhoops), e-mailed or sent via our Facebook page. Submit your questions and we’ll answer as many as we can. @joealexis: Isn’t Caris LeVert being overlooked for next season? I think that he has...
Dustin Johnston Single-play match-ups for the 2013-14 Big Ten season were announced on Tuesday afternoon. Here are three quick reactions to the draw. 1. Single-play problem needs to be fixed If you believe the school presidents, an 18 game schedule is here to stay and...
Single plays for the 2014 Big Ten basketball season were announced this afternoon and Michigan will play Ohio State (road), Illinois (road), Northwestern (home) and Penn State (home) just once next season. Single plays are not guaranteed to flip home and away in the 2014-15...
To say Devin Booker’s recruitment is “blowing up” right now would be a bit of a misnomer. It’s actually been blowing up for a while. Two years ago Booker was just one of 60 kids in the underclassmen session of Michigan’s College Practice Camp. Few...
Eric Davis just wants to play point guard. While the Saginaw native might be known more for his scoring prowess at this point in his development, he knows that he wants to play point guard in college. “A lot of people want to recruit me...
Class of 2015 point guard Jalen Brunson is one of the fastest rising guard prospects in in the country. John Beilein knows a thing or two about evaluating point guards and the Stevenson guard is one that has caught the Michigan head coach’s eye. Brunson,...
A summary of how Michigan recruiting targets performed in Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League over the weekend. College coaches weren’t allowed on the evaluation trail over the weekend but that didn’t reduce the talent on display at the Nike EYBL. In the third of four...
Kameron Chatman and Tyler Dorsey The Wolverines have been tracking class of 2014 ICP Elite wing Kameron Chatman for quite some time and John Beilein will earn a coveted unofficial visit from the versatile forward. Chatman, who we profiled last week, confirmed in Dallas for...
Tim Hardaway Jr. discussed his NBA Draft prep with HoopsWorld.com. Related Video: Trey Burke NBA Draft workout
We posted a fair amount of content from the last weekend’s Spiece Run-n-Slam Memorial Classic throughout the last week but here’s a roundup of highligth videos from elsewhere including Vince Edwards, Trevon Bluiett, Jalen Brunson, Kevon Looney, Eron Gordon and more. Vince Edwards Jalen Brunson
Zak Irvin committed to Michigan nearly two years ago in summer of 2011 and has emerged as the top rated prospect in Michigan’s Class of 2013. Irvin took home Indiana Mr. Basketball honors and will look to step into the role vacated by Tim Hardaway...
John Beilein’s two guard offense was originally designed to minimize the necessity of a true point guard. He didn’t have a lead ball handler so he leaned on two guards instead of one. In recent years, Beilein’s offense has morphed into a showcase for superb...
Donate We launched our State of the Blog postseason fundraiser a month ago and wanted to wrap things up (don’t worry you can still contribute if you forgot) with a sincere thank you to all of you that contributed. The fundraiser was one of our...
German big man Malick Kordel is enrolled at Michigan and listed in the online...
The talent in Michigan’s four-man transfer portal class is undeniable. Yaxel Lendeborg could have...
Dusty May and his staff were in attendance at the NBPA Top 100 Camp...
Morez Johnson Jr. was named one of 18 finalists at the USA Basketball U19...