Fran Fraschilla ranks Trey Burke No. 1 in his top 25 impact rankings: In a season that has seen some outstanding point guard play, Burke is clearly the best all-around player at his position in college basketball. Averaging 18 points per game, he has been in double figures in every game. And in addition to [...]
In part two of our interview with former Michigan captain Zack Novak, we discuss Thursday’s upcoming game against Minnesota and what Novak has seen out of Michigan’s freshmen. Catch up with part one here or read part two below. I get the sense you’ve watched your fair share of Big Ten hoops this year. Have [...]
Draft Express ranks Tim Hardaway Jr. the No. 17 NBA prospect in the Big Ten before the season. For comparison, Trey Burke was ranked second in the Big Ten. Here are a couple of snippets from the DX report: Hardaway continues to have the strange distinction of being a more efficient shooter off the dribble [...]
Mike DeCourcy on the Michigan resurgence This is not a class that demands a nickname of its own, or someone else’s modified to fit the circumstance. It is transformational, though, for Beilein’s Michigan. When he was hired away from West Virginia, some analysts blasted the choice on the basis he would be either unable or [...]
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Michigan is ranked 2nd in ESPN’s updated 2013 recruiting rankings, trailing only North Carolina. Derrick Walton, Zak Irvin and Mark Donnal are all ranked in ESPN’s Top 100: The Wolverines are not an upper-echelon, battle-with-the-blue-bloods-type of Big Ten power, but what John Beilein does — maybe as well as anyone — is identifyplayers for his [...]
