It’s been a journey, but Michigan is where it wanted to be all along. The Wolverines opened the season as a preseason top-10 team and fell all the way to the wrong side of the bubble, but now they are one of sixteen teams still...
For most of the season, the thought of Michigan reaching the Sweet Sixteen seemed unfathomable. And yet through all of the turbulence — bumpy transitions, a COVID-19 outbreak, a handshake line fiasco — Michigan arrived in San Antonio Tuesday evening, one of the last 16...
Film Room is an X’s and O’s breakdown of Michigan basketball by Gibson Pyper. Pyper has diagrammed almost every offense in college and professional basketball at The Basketball Playbook and is an expert on the X’s and O’s of the game. If you want to...
Juwan Howard and his players met with the media today in San Antonio ahead of Thursday’s game against Villanova. Q. Coach, this is the second year in a row where both the men’s and women’s programs for Michigan are headed to the Sweet 16. What is...
Michigan faces Villanova on Thursday (7:15 p.m, TBS) with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line. We’ve already taken a first look at the Wildcats, but today’s preview dives deeper into the personnel. We go player-by-player and break down the strengths, matchups and...
Dylan and Eric break down Michigan’s opening weekend wins over Colorado State and Tennessee before diving into the MIchigan-Villanova matchup on offense and defense to examine whether the No. 11 seeded Wolverines can pull off another upset. Listen to “Sweet 16 Preview! How does Michigan...
This weekend, Michigan played to its strength: Naz Hillmon. Scoring 51 points across the two games, there were stretches the senior forward took over each game and made it her own. “Naz, she’s extremely impressive,” Villanova coach Denise Dillon said after its loss. “You know,...
Michigan knocked off Colorado State and Tennesee to advance to its fifth straight Sweet 16 while Michigan State fell just short against Duke after knocking off Davidson. Brendan and Dylan recap the action from the weekend, preview Michigan’s match up with Villanova and try to...
Michigan’s matchup with Villanova is the focus of the week, but the Wolverines also won two games in a row for the first time since early February. They played their best basketball of the season at the most important time of the season despite being...
Michigan is headed to the Sweet Sixteen and will face No. 2 seed Villanova in San Antonio on Thursday night (7:15 ET, TBS). The Wolverines are 4.5 point underdogs against the 28-7 Wildcats, who finished second in the Big East but won the conference tournament....
Michigan will face No. 2 seeded Villanova in the Sweet Sixteen on Thursday night in San Antonio (7:15 p.m. ET). The game will be televised on TBS. Brian Anderson, Jim Jackson and Allie LaForce will be on the broadcast. The Wolverines are the No. 11 seed...
Michigan outdueled Tennessee on Saturday night to punch its ticket to the Sweet Sixteen. It was a back-and-forth affair that featured 12 lead changes and epitomized college basketball in March. In the end, Michigan’s leaders came through in the clutch. Hunter Dickinson was marvelous offensively...
Terrance Williams II had very few distinctions at the start of the year. His role. After the first game of the year, he had to clarify his position — one that oscillated between wing and power forward — shifting where he played to adjust to...
It was only ever going to be Eli Brooks. Michigan’s season was on the line, trailing by six against one of the best teams in college basketball, and Brooks went about extending it for another week. Hunter Dickinson played a great game and Terrance Williams...
Each of Michigan’s 14 losses this season have carried the same somber scene and, for the most part, the same main character: Eli Brooks. Brooks, a fifth-year senior, has become a public face of the program, a position that carries with it both benefits and...
With just a few days until the transfer portal closes, Michigan’s April has been...
Michigan junior Danny Wolf is headed to the NBA Draft and will forgo his...
Michigan wing Nimari Burnett will be back for another season in Ann Arbor. The...