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Game 23: Penn State at Michigan Post Game

Michigan pulls away from Penn State in one of their best defensive performances of the season. In many ways this game was a mirror image of the game these two teams played at Penn State. The first half was relatively close in the first half...

Game 23: Penn State at Michigan Preview

Basics: Who: Penn State (17-5) at Michigan  (14-8) Where: Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, MI When: Thursday, February 4th, 7 PM TV: BTN Spread: Michigan by 4 Preview: Stat Sheet, U-M KenPom Profile, Penn State KenPom Profile Radio: MGoBlue, WWJ-AM (950), WTKA-AM (1050) Opposition Blog: Crispin...

Video: Eso Akunne Dunk

Slow news day but here is a video of Eso dunking on a big kid from Detroit Community. Eso is a 6-foot-3 preferred walk on from Gabriel Richard in the class of 2009. If you want more Eso video, here is some video from last...

Halfway Home

The Standings. Right now Michigan is 8th in the Big Ten, a half game behind Northwestern. It’s important to remember that the Big Ten schedule is very unbalanced this year. Some teams have played some teams twice already (e.g. Michigan and Illinois) and some haven’t...

Throwing Elbows with Jay Bilas

Update 1:39 PM: Manny is not expected to be suspended by the Big Ten: Big Ten spokesperson LaTonya Sadler told the Free Press today that the Big Ten “did not find it violated the sportsmanship agreement.” There has been plenty of media coverage this morning...

Recruiting Roundup (2-2-09)

Commits Matt Vogrich Lake Forest tallied two more wins this week. The first was a 51-40 win over Round Lake, Vogrich had a game high 16 points.  Vogrich had 19 points in second win, a 84-66 victory over Mundelein. Matt continues his great season and...

Thursday Links: Upset Edition

Anthony Tucker Out For Year With Diseased Report Card Four for four on the freshman year checklist: Black out in an alley, get arrested, get mono, and fail classes. Iowa Beats Wisconsin, 73-69 Guess they don’t need Tucker… Shocker in Spartyville – Cats upset MSU 70-63...

Game 19: Michigan at Penn State Post Game

Penn State played more physical basketball tonight and they were rewarded with the ‘W’. Jamelle Cornley imposed himself on the game and posted monster numbers, 17 points on 8 of 10 shooting and 11 boards, while dominating not only the glass but the whole painted...

Game 19: Michigan at Penn State Preview

Basics: Who: Michigan (13-5) at Penn State (14-5) Where: Bryce Jordan Center, University Park, PA When: Tuesday, January 20th 9:00 ET TV: BTN Spread: PSU by 2.5 Preview: Stat Sheet, U-M KenPom Profile, Penn State KenPom Profile Radio: MGoBlue, WWJ-AM (950), WTKA-AM (1050) Opposition Blog:...

Game 18: Ohio State at Michigan Plus/Minus

Game 17: Michigan at Illinois Plus/Minus

Here are the Illinois plus/minus numbers. there is nothing pretty about them but Kelvin and Laval were the best of the worst I guess. Watching that second half again was a bit like pulling teeth. No totals in this post because they will be in...

Monday Night Links

Old Spice ’09 Tournament: Florida State, Alabama, Baylor, Michigan Creighton, Iona, Marquette and Xavier All eight teams appear to be finalized according to JS Online. Thanks to Chris for the tip. Put this acronym in your pipe and smoke it Points Over Replacement Per Adjusted Game....

Practice Facility Plans

Practice facility plans will go before the regents this week. The document outlining the plans is located here. They are planning to build the practice facility on the east side of Crisler Arena. An addition of approximately 50,000 gross square feet to Crisler Arena for...

Recruiting Roundup (1-19-09)

Site Notes I added a list of “useful stuff” to the right column which includes: UM Hoops RSS feed Big Ten Wonk explanation of tempo free stats Recruiting videos Michigan’s KenPomeroy profile Michigan’s RPI ranking at Warren Nolan Michigan’s StatSheet page UM Hoops Twitter page...

Game 18: Ohio State at Michigan Post Game

Opportunity missed. Michigan had their chance to pull out a home win but they just couldn’t finish off the Buckeyes despite being up 44-40 with 7:35 to play. The Buckeyes were the ones that seized the game with a 16-3 run over the next 6...