Basketball has clearly been one of the last things driving conference expansion talk over the last couple months. Exhibit one: The Kansas Jayhawks – an all-time top 5 program that has barely been mentioned in conference expansion debates. While basketball wasn’t driving the conversation, the outcomes will definitely have an effect on the hardwood. Most [...]
Matt Costello is a 6-8, 210-pound forward from Auburn, MI. He’s playing AAU ball with Team Pride this summer and his stock has been on the rise. He had an impressive season playing for Bay City Western this season. I went to watch him at the Motown Showdown earlier this summer and here’s some of [...]
I was at the basketball offices with assorted media members on hand to talk with new assistant basketball coach LaVall Jordan. Jordan has been brought in to replace departed longtime assistant coach Mike Jackson as the coach working primarily with the guards. Jackson was also widely considered the best recruiter on the staff, and Jordan [...]
This post will focus on everything besides Tom Izzo, Big Ten Expansion, and USC Sanctions. I’m working on a post about the Izzo situation that I hope to have up this afternoon. Indiana hoops star looking at MSU, U-M Sam Webb profiles Gary Harris in the Detroit News As we reported earlier this week, JaVontae [...]
As we first reported on Tuesday , Laval Jordan has been hired as Michigan’s third assistant coach. I already wrote up some thoughts about the Jordan hire and Western Michigan coach Steve Hawkins feels like Beilein “tampered” with Jordan. Beilein addressed Hawkins’ statements: “I am surprised by the reaction of Coach Hawkins because I thought [...]
Graham Couch of the Kalamazoo Gazette interviewed Steve Hawkins about Laval Jordan’s short stay at Western Michigan and quick departure to Michigan. Hawkins is not happy an rips off a number of scathing quotes: “Tampering — that’s what this is,” Hawkins said. “It’s the same thing if you come in on a verbal commitment (made [...]
