Monthly archives: May 2009

May 27, 2009 at 10:30 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Uncategorized

Thursday Notes

Utah Michigan will head to Salt Lake City next year to play Utah, last year’s mid-major RPI (13) darling. Utah was 24-9 last year but as a commenter points out, they lose their top four scorers to graduation. Because the game is on the road it will probably be tricky but on the other hand [...]

May 26, 2009 at 8:16 am by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Uncategorized

Weekend Rundown

Ben Cronin

I know the posting was light over the last week or so. The light posting was due to not having a steady internet connection for a week as well as the holiday weekend. Hopefully everyone enjoyed their holiday and I should be able to post more consistently from here on out. Here are a couple [...]

May 21, 2009 at 7:30 am by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Uncategorized

Thursday Links

adidas May Classic Report Lou Dawkins on last weekend’s AMC– Zeigler, Appling, Kearney, Indiana kids, Gibson, and 15U in-state kids visiting MSU. Leave Malcolm Gladwell Alone I’ve been working on an article about Gladwell’s piece for a while but haven’t finished it. Gasaway is the best of the best in terms of college basketball bloggers, [...]

May 18, 2009 at 2:58 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Links,Recruits

Monday Links & Recruiting

zeigler-motown

Photo courtesy of Next Generation Sports Trey Zeigler (and family) and Amir Williams both made it to Ann Arbor near the end of last week. That is three high profile visitors (McCallum is #3) in Ann Arbor over the last two weeks. Go Blue Wolverine posted a post-visit interview ($) with Trey and it appears [...]

May 18, 2009 at 9:01 am by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Uncategorized

Play of the Year 2008-09 Results

Michigan forward DeShawn Sims (#34) plays against UCLA at Madison Square Garden in New York City on November 20, 2008. This was the semi-final round of the 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs Cancer. (CLIF REEDER/Daily)

The Results Click here to watch the top plays again It was a close finish between the backdoor dunk against UCLA and the Manny Harris drive and finish against Clemson. It’s clear that these are the top two plays of the year and nothing else comes close. The Manny Harris “and one” pulled off the [...]

May 14, 2009 at 2:13 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Links

Thursday Links

NCAA FORMS ETHICS COALITION John Beilein is the man in charge. No surprise there, he is one of the cleanest coaches in the country. The committee seems like a good idea but it’s hard to imagine that they will really have that much pull. WestCoastBallersTV – Darius Morris Some Darius Morris video that I haven’t [...]

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