Monthly archives: August 2009

Aug 31, 2009 at 3:29 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Links

Basketball?

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It’s that time of the year for college basketbal fans. There’s pretty much nothing happening; AAU is over, everyone is ready for football, and the November seems so far away. Luckily, official visits will start up with football season, but honestly, it’s football season. Add in some controversy about football players lifting weights and playing [...]

Aug 27, 2009 at 1:56 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Uncategorized

Position by Position: Zack Novak

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I started out writing a breakdown of the shooting guard position but I realized that there was going to be a problem with these positional breakdowns: Zack Novak. Zack is the wildcard. It’s hard to quantify lots of the things he does on the court and he doesn’t even have a true position. There has [...]

Aug 25, 2009 at 2:24 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: 2009-2010 Season

The Expectations Game

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Michigan fans, local and national media (According to Mike DeCourcy, Michigan will be better than you think), and neutral observers are starting to pencil Michigan near the top of the Big Ten and punch their ticket to the Big Dance. John Beilein’s not ready for that quite yet. “They can never assume because they were [...]

Aug 24, 2009 at 2:22 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Recruits

VIDEO: Carlton Brundidge Soph. Highlights

VIDEO: Carlton Brundidge Soph. Highlights

Here is 10 minutes of Carlton Brundidge footage from his sophomore year (last year). I think the best way to describe Carlton’s game is to call him a “scoring lead guard” rather than a distributing point guard. In my opinion the only thing keeping his ranking down (he’s still in the top 100) is his [...]

Aug 24, 2009 at 12:18 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Links

Monday Links

Big Ten ShootAround: League’s elite aim for Final Four berth in Indy Plenty of Big Ten talk from ESPN… I’m a bit confused how Michigan doesn’t have a game on the “non conference games we can’t wait to see” list… RECRUITING NOTEBOOK: ROD ODOM, CARLTON BRUNDIDGE, CARSON DESROSIERS Carlton Brundidge plans to visit Michigan and [...]

Aug 22, 2009 at 10:03 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Site

UMHoops 3.0 — Coming Soon

With my summer commitments over, it should be back to some more regular posting as the season nears. Hopefully that means a few less links posts and a little more real content. I am also in the process of redesigning the site for the new season. There are too many things with the current layout [...]

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