Your first place Michigan Wolverines!!

[hungry]

Michigan men's basketball is in first place. How about that?

 

[Monster]

it feels nice, but the upcoming schedule is brutal.

 

[josh200612]

Lets hope that they can keep it up!

 

[michiganmicros313]

Yeah rest of the schedule is pretty brutal. It's all good though. Just gotta wait until McGary, GRIII, and Staskaus show up next year. Mich gonna be ballin out. I could see Dicky V doing a game at Crisler next year and going nuts.

 

[Michchamp]

Monster [/color]]it feels nice, but the upcoming schedule is brutal.

yeah, I don't expect it to last.

still, I will enjoy us being #1 for the time being.

it will be the "happy place" I go to when we lose, and people start whining and complaining and bashing Beilein, Douglass, Smotrycz, etc. etc. ...

 

[deathroh]

Monster [/color]]it feels nice, but the upcoming schedule is brutal.

yeah, I don't expect it to last.

still, I will enjoy us being #1 for the time being.

it will be the "happy place" I go to when we lose, and people start whining and complaining and bashing Beilein, Douglass, Smotrycz, etc. etc. ...

I'm hoping this team is good enough to avoide many multi-game slides and keep the irrational crying from fans to a minimum. This road stretch is insane though..

 

[TheVictors]

Even though it likely won't last the rest of the way, it's still pretty amazing how far the program has come and how re-established it now is and will be. Being a perennial Top 20 hoops program again has been a long road back.

 

[Michchamp]

Even though it likely won't last the rest of the way, it's still pretty amazing how far the program has come and how re-established it now is and will be. Being a perennial Top 20 hoops program again has been a long road back.

it was a painful road too.

except for the '02 season when Horton was a freshman sensation (and we were under a post-season ban), there wasn't much to like from fall '97 until Beilein's second season. even during Amaker's above-average seasons, they still looked shaky against just about everyone.

that was like 10 years of bad basketball...

on top of the scandal; bad coaching. Ellerbe was just a bad coach, period. one good first season w/Fisher's talent, then they collapsed. And I remember the race card being played when they fired him, or were talking about firing him. I wonder if he had anything to do with that, or if that was just some hack reverend's PR move?

Amaker has Harvard playing well now, so I don't think he was a hopeless case. but in hindsight it's clear he couldn't cut it in the Big Ten. teams were just sloppy and weak.

 

[TheVictors]

Michigan basketball went for the anti-Urban Meyer hire with Ellerbe, IMO. Then the Amaker ties to Duke helped re-brand M hoops and Beilein has completed the renovation. The TV bans and other considerations made it hard to follow the team for a while also. I'm not a big basketball fan and have never pretended to be, but I'm very excited for the remainder of the season and ability to see some of these games (on ESPN/2 and BTN).

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'd rather the team be in first place today facing the brutal upcoming schedule than not be in first place today facing the brutal upcoming schedule.