
Here’s video of David Merritt chatting with Michigan assistant coach Lavall Jordan about Michigan’s match-up with Syracuse: We’ll be chatting in the comments section of this post during the game, so feel free to join the conversation. We’ll also do our best to post any links to video streams that we can find. Tip off: [...]

I’m impressed. I know this team is young. I know they haven’t played anyone. I know this year will be a learning process and the Big Ten is arguably better top to bottom than it has been in a long time. All these things considered, I’m still impressed. I feel that’s allowable. You can still [...]

Basics Who: Michigan (3-0) vs. #9/10 Syracuse (4-0) Where: Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ When: Friday, November 26th, 8 PM ET Legends Classic Bracket TV: HD Net / Channel Finder Ch. 382 Comcast Ann Arbor Radio: MGoBlue / WWWW (102.9 FM) 2-3 Zone Primer / Legends Classic Preview Michigan will hop on a plane this [...]

Photo Credit: CNYCentral / Syracuse.com Jim Boeheim is widely renowned as the best zone coach in college basketball. He is one of the only coaches that utilizes a zone as his primary defense, rather than a change up, and he has been extremely successful. Michigan head coach John Beilein has not been immune to Boeheim’s [...]

Our Around the Big Ten preview series is complete and we finally took the time to tally all of our participants projections. The results were similar to last year: abundant optimism. In this post we present the results, share some thoughts, and also solicit thoughts from a neutral party, the Big Ten Geeks. First off, [...]

Jeff Eisenberg ranked the NCAA preseason tournaments from most to least intriguing and the Legends Classic came in a 11th out of 12. The only tournament ranked below the Legends Classic was the Cancun Challenges which features just two high-major schools and few intriguing mid majors. The Legends Classic follows the recent NCAA trend of [...]