Phil Hubbard on WTKA @ 10:30 this morning
He'll be interviewed as the subject of Spath's "Game Of My Life" segment.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:52 AM ^
Hub is late calling in so they're filling time waiting for him to call. So you can still hear the whole thing if he ever calls in.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:53 AM ^
Phil was a Player.
Go Blue.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:24 PM ^
Agree. Phil Hubbard is way underrated as a Michigan basketball great. Still holds the career Michigan record for rebounds, I believe. And had a solid 10 year NBA career.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
Also the only Michigan basketball player with an Olympic gold medal (1976, between his Freshman and Sophomore years--the only Freshman selected for the team).
February 8th, 2019 at 3:28 PM ^
Thinking about this, how did Glen Rice not make the '88 team?
February 8th, 2019 at 10:55 AM ^
Skinny guy. 6' 8" and 216#. Needed Camp Sanderson before Camp Sanderson existed as I recall.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
Yet as a 6'7/6'8 center in the bruising Big Ten he was a monster rebounder, including 26 against Iowa one game!
February 8th, 2019 at 11:09 AM ^
He certainly met the "skinny as a rail" descriptor. He was much quicker off his feet than his counter-parts. He was your prototypically quick, under-sized Orr player.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:10 PM ^
He had nearly 400 rebounds in one season, I believe, and still has the single season record, as I recall.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:17 AM ^
He had extreeeemly long arms, too.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:00 AM ^
OK he's on air now!
February 8th, 2019 at 11:49 AM ^
I'm not trying to be rude or anything, but why is this a big deal?
February 8th, 2019 at 12:04 PM ^
See link. Phil was an outstanding BB player for UM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Hubbard
His career at Michigan goes back a few years. Us old guys remember him.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:16 PM ^
Back in 2016 i ran into Phil heading into one the Cavs finals games against the Warriors. I am the same age as him so we were at Mich the same years. I yelled out "Phil-Go Blue" and he yelled Go Blue right back.
So he and i sang the Victors in the concourse of Quicken Loans arena and my wife filmed the whole thing!
Great, great guy.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
Cool story, bro.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
So, read the posts above and below and you will understand why. This guy is a Michigan man through and through. He is a big deal.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:29 PM ^
Phil is a great guy. Lived on my hall freshman year in West Quad, along with Alan Hardy, Tommy Staton and Bobby Jones (who later transferred to Tulane).
Phil was great for Michigan, won a gold medal on the 1976 Olympic team. Unfortunately he blew out his knee the next summer playing in the World University Games.
He was and assistant coach for Eddie Jordan and the Wizzards. I ran into him at Dulles Airport in about 2005 as he was on his way to AA for the ND game. After that he always got me and my kids tickets when the Wizards came to Denver (where I live).
Class act all the way. Can't wait to download the podcast.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
Another cool story, bro.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:47 PM ^
Tom Staton once baited an inbounder on the other team to pass him the ball while clapping his hands and calling for the ball, cannot find a video of it.
Alan Hardy was a part time player at Michigan who went to play in the NBA.
Hubbard’s career was really affected negatively by his knee injury. He did not look like much but could play.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
If that happened today, there would be 35,000 GIfs, 200 You Tube videos, and countless memes of that happening.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
Alan Hardy started every game his junior year, and started 16 games his senior year but was still 4th in minutes played. More than a part-timer I'd say.
Alan and Tommy were both great guys as well, they were right across the hall from me at West Quad. I remember they had to swap out the beds because they weren't long enough.
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/michigan/1978.html
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/schools/michigan/1979.html
February 9th, 2019 at 2:20 PM ^
it's possible.my memory is faltering, but didn't Alan Hardy hit his head and JoEL Thompson hit his fro on the roof of Crisler?
February 8th, 2019 at 12:41 PM ^
If Hubbard and the rest of the team didn't have the bad luck timing of having Bobby Knight's legendary 32-0 team in their way, they very probably would have won Michigan's first national championship in basketball.
February 8th, 2019 at 7:30 PM ^
We led at halftime.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:13 PM ^
One of my favorite M players of all time.
February 8th, 2019 at 4:19 PM ^
Phil Hubbard was a mainstay of the Michigan basketball team when I first started following them when I was in high school. Those two seasons 75/76 and 76/77 were amazing for a small, scrappy team. Hubbard was the "giant" at 6-7 and only a freshman in 75/76. But he played much bigger than his size and age those seasons. In the spring of 1977, which was my senior year of high school, they were ranked #1 in the country much of the time. However, they met an early exit in the NCAA tournament from UNC Charlotte. After that year, the program seemed to fall into a down period until the 80's when Frieder was able to bring in some better players.
February 8th, 2019 at 7:29 PM ^
How would Phil's career have looked like minus the injury? It was pretty bad.
Green/Grote/Robinson/Britt/Hubbard. That was fun basketball. Racehorse basketball.