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Thank you for being a great Michigan Man on and off the field! You represented the #2 well.

Your 8-1 #14th ranked Michigan Wolverines take on Coach Cal's 7-2 and just outside the top 25, Arkansas Razorbacks. Tonight 9pm est in Madison Square Garden. ESPN. Michigan -3.5

Before we get into the specifics about this game, I think this is a good time to look at where Michigan excels and where we have room for improvement. I also put that this is a 4 game season in the title. We have 4 games left before we get back into conference play. At a minimum we must go 2-2 to stay on track. 3-1 in this stretch and we may sneak into the top 10. 4-0 and we may sneak into the top 5. We have an exciting 3 weeks of basketball ahead of us and it starts tonight.

Part 1:

Michigan through 9 games The Good: (Rankings based out of 364 D1 Teams)

• Opponents pts per game 63.1, Michigan ranks #23rd
• Opponents assists per game 8.3, Michigan ranks #4th
• Opponents Assists per turnover, Michigan ranks #2nd
• Opponents are shooting 41.7% from two against Michigan which puts us at #8th
• Opponents are shooting overall 37.3% against Michigan which puts us at #10th
• Opponents are snagging only 18 defensive rebounds per game which ranks Michigan #9th
• Michigan is holding opponents to 31 second half points which puts Michigan at #7th
• Michigan averages 5.2 blocks per game ranking us #22nd
• Michigan is shooting the ball 60.7% from 2 which ranks #9th (Makes sense with two 7 footers starting)
• Michigan is shooting the ball 50% from the field which ranks us #21

Summary: To be top 10 in that many defensive categories is prime Tony Bennett at Virginia level of play. Offensively, these rankings suggest we get our fair share of good looks and are taking advantage.

Michigan through 9 games The Bad: (Rankings based out of 364 D1 Teams)

• Free Throw Percentage 68.7% ranks us #259th
• We only make 13.3 free throws a game which ranks us #216th
• We only rebound on 70.7% of our opponents misses which ranks us #239th
• We average 15.1 turnovers which ranks us #336th
• We turn it over on 18.3% of our possessions which ranks us #326th

Summary: We are not only bad, we are really bad at the things most championship teams are elite at. We aren't shooting free throws well and we are as careless with the basketball as you can be in ALL of college basketball.

How are we 8-1? Defense travels. It's no more complicated than that. Usually at this level, it takes to around Christmas break to have sound defensive rotations, especially with this many new faces. We started the year off with Sound Defensive rotations. That's an incredible accomplishment by Dusty. I'm in awe of it. We rarely "Over-help." Everyone trusts their teammates to do their jobs. If we can cut down our turnovers and say, get our rankings into the mid to low 200's in that category, pencil us in for a sweet 16 at a minimum.

Part 2 on deck:

My good news is we have a new OC. He's now our guy, so I support him 100%.

I'm excited about the recruiting class and hope we can recruit a couple more by signing day. I'm also interested in what the portal will bring with the announcement of our new OC. Everyone likes to get a few gifts this time of year.

We have a bowl destination, and it's a quality opponent. I would prefer we play some new faces, but nobody is asking me, so Beat Bama!

I'm closing in on finishing my Christmas shopping.

I'm blessed.

What's your good news?

Go Blue!

is AWESOME!

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Come back home... He still tweets favorably about Michigan and would love to see him back

I'm going Drums.

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We're expecting a deal to be finalized rather quickly.

Hogs pull out a wild one verses the Wolverines at the MSG.

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Michigan is in the World's Most Famous Arena right now, preparing to play John Calipari and Arkansas.

The Wolverines (8-1) will face the Razorbacks (7-2) at 9 p.m. on ESPN.

Michigan is a 3.5-point favorite.

With Lindsey in the fold, should we expect anything here?

experienced coordinators, NIL in place, a stud #1 QB and a HC who kids love. Let the good times roll.

M&BR has the latest on Michigan's OC search.

Jeebus Christmas on a pogo stick

Michigan also plays big opponents. That's what we do. We jump crap schools like Iowa to go against a good team. This is an amazing opportunity to go out with alot guys who will contribute in. 2025 and beat a good team. We will win this game and we will take a big step back to the playoffs for 2025. Go get em boys. Time to find that steel in the spine.

Michigan 24
Alabama 21

With the large amount of players that Michigan will need to be competitive next year, it surprises me that we aren't hearing about far more players being in communication with Michigan. Especially since we are out of the playoff and have all the time to attach the portal. Is Michigan slow playing?

Within the next 48 hours, per Sherrone Moore.

Chances that it leaks before that is high, I’d imagine.

HUGEEEEE

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We need to jump on some of this kids fast. Get the check book out. This is what dives me nuts about looking for a coordinator.
It hurt us last year because it took forever for something to happen with Harbaugh

Just wanted to leave a quick note of thanks for all the positive thoughts and well wishes for Franklin.

They’re just finishing up his surgery now and he’ll be on track to go home this evening.

Been a taxing day for me as I dropped him off at 8 am this morning, so I apologize for being sparse here.

It’s definitely a relief as I have been stressing about this for days.

ESPN has an article ranking all 52 teams in the history of the College Football Playoffs. Couple of noteworthy rankings:


- 2015 MSU is the lowest ranked team from the 4-team Playoff era (#49) 😂

- 2021 UM is ranked #35 (Ahead of last year's Bama team and right behind this year's UT team)

- 2022 UM is ranked #22 (Ten spots ahead of 2022 TCU)

- 2023 UM is ranked #4!!! (Behind only 2022 UGA, 2019 LSU, and 2020 Bama)