Monthly archives: August 2011

Aug 31, 2011 at 9:20 am by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: 2011-2012 Season

Notebook: Austin Hatch, Recruiting Rankings and 2014 Visits

Notebook: Austin Hatch, Recruiting Rankings and 2014 Visits

The Detroit Free Press reports that John Beilein plans to stay in Ann Arbor past his fifth season. I’m not sure there were many questions around that but there are a number of other quotes on the program in the article. Updates to Austin Hatch’s Caring Bridge page continue to improve, here’s the most recent [...]

Aug 30, 2011 at 10:30 am by UMHoops Staff Filed under: Recruits

Class of 2012 Big Ten Recruiting Rankings: August 30th, 2011

Trent Montemayor took our inquiry for help to heart and volunteered to construct and maintain a running database of Big Ten Recruiting Rankings. The idea is borrowed from MGoBlog, who maintains a similar list for football classes. There will likely be some tweaks in future iterations but for now, here’s the current data: Rank School # Commits [...]

Aug 29, 2011 at 9:39 am by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Site

Introducing Kevin Raftery and Other Site Notes

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Several of our friends, rivals and companions in the Michigan sports realm have announced major staffing moves over the last month and now we want to take the opportunity to announce a move of our own. Kevin Raftery will be joining the team as a day-to-day correspondent in a role similar to Joe Stapleton’s last [...]

Aug 27, 2011 at 8:22 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Recruits

Video: Mitch McGary Shatters Backboard at Elite 24

Video: Mitch McGary Shatters Backboard at Elite 24

2012 Michigan recruiting target Mitch McGary was invited to play in the Boost Mobile Elite 24 event in Venice Beach this weekend and made headlines but shattering the backboard with a dunk during warmups. Here’s footage of McGary’s dunk: McGary will begin taking visits next weekend when he takes his first official visit to Ann [...]

Aug 26, 2011 at 6:22 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Links

Friday Links

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Mitch McGary’s upcoming visits are set, per Dave Telep: Michigan official 9/3; Kentucky unofficial 9/5; North Carolina official 9/7; Duke official 9/8. McGary shared his thoughts on each school left on his list with Scout.com ($). Glenn Robinson III and Nick Stauskas both saw their rankings rise in Rivals’ most recent top-150 with Robinson up [...]

Aug 24, 2011 at 12:19 pm by Dylan Burkhardt Filed under: Links

Wednesday Links

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From Michigan Basketball on Facebook Michigan lands an important local recruit in bold Derrick Walton Jr. “Coach Bacari said it a lot — that he wanted a lot of guys from the Detroit area, so I guess I was his main target and it was a priority for me to come to Michigan,” Walton said. [...]

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