Wolverine Devotee

January 2nd, 2014 at 9:38 PM ^

Anyone think Rumeal will be on there being interviewed?

Is that allowed?

Also, I can't wait. I've always been trying to learn as much as I can about this team. Limited info out there since they're overshadowed by the Fab Five teams. Hell, the average fan can't even name the starting lineup for the 1988-89 team.

I wonder if they'll talk about what in the hell happened against Alaska-Anchorage. Could be the only team to lose to a D2 team to go on and win the NCAA Championship.

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LSAClassOf2000

January 2nd, 2014 at 9:45 PM ^

Some great statistical achievements from that team, some of which still stand, most notably a collective 56.6% field goal percentage as well as most points and most assists. Glen Rice went 7-7 from three point land in a game and scored over 900 points, as I recall.

I also think we sent four people from this team to the NBA Draft the next year - Rice went in 1989, but Rumeal Robinson, Sean Higgins, Terry Mills and Loy Vaught all went the next year.

Semi-cool story bro - Terry Mills is a Romulus native and my mother was his 8th grade English teacher.  

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TexasMaizeNBlue

January 2nd, 2014 at 10:43 PM ^

The Illini also had a loaded roster; Kendall Gill, Nick Anderson, Marcus Liberty and Stephen Bardo all played in the NBA. I might be forgetting another player also. Illinois beat us both times during the regular season, but we got revenge in the Final Four.

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Muttley

January 3rd, 2014 at 1:07 AM ^

in the lineup.  He broke his foot mid-season, and their team went 4-4 without him.  Indiana actually won the Big Ten that year, but Illinois was given a #1 seed instead due to the return of Gill and some impressive end-of-season wins.  (And Illinois was 2-0 against Indiana that year, both without Gill.)

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/illinois/1989.html

Kenny Battle also played in the NBA (drafted late in the first round by the Pistons but traded away).

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trueblueintexas

January 2nd, 2014 at 11:02 PM ^

Obligatory, GLEN!!! (Shrieks in girlish little squeal). My favorite player still to this day. He shot over 50% from three his senior year. He is still the all time scoring leader in a tourney.

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Bando Calrissian

January 3rd, 2014 at 1:22 AM ^

This was pretty much the first Michigan team of any kind I distinctly remember watching. So much fun, and unfairly overshadowed by a certain few later teams that couldn't finish.

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DowntownLJB

January 3rd, 2014 at 11:02 AM ^

I was crushed the year before by a second consecutive loss to UNC in the NCAA Tourney and made a deal with God that if we didn't win the whole thing the next year, I wouldn't believe in him anymore (how's that for a passionate teenage girl fan!?).  Then the whole Frieder to AZ, Schembechler "Michigan Man will coach Michigan" thing and I was considering letting the Big Guy off the hook - but he didn't let me down! 

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gmoney41

January 3rd, 2014 at 12:07 PM ^

Glen was the man.  What a team, my favorite michigan hoops team ever.  Can't wait for this to air.  I still remember Glen in 97 with the Hornets, when he had a stretch of 3 months of the best shooting I have ever seen.  He was in the ZONE.

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