Michigan Wolverines men's basketball

Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
2024–25 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team
UniversityUniversity of Michigan
First season1908–09
All-time record1,704–1,114 (.605)
Head coachDusty May (1st season)
ConferenceBig Ten
LocationAnn Arbor, Michigan
ArenaCrisler Center
(Capacity: 12,707)
NicknameWolverines
Student sectionMaize Rage
ColorsMaize and blue[1]
   
Uniforms
Home jersey
Team colours
Home
Away jersey
Team colours
Away


NCAA tournament champions
1989
NCAA tournament runner-up
1965, 1976, 1992*, 1993*, 2013, 2018
NCAA tournament Final Four
1964, 1965, 1976, 1989, 1992*, 1993*, 2013, 2018
NCAA tournament Elite Eight
1948, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1989, 1992, 1993*, 1994, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2021
NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen
1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993*, 1994, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
NCAA tournament appearances
1948, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993*, 1994, 1995, 1996*, 1998*, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Conference tournament champions
1998*, 2017, 2018
Conference regular season champions
1921, 1926, 1927, 1929, 1948, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1977, 1985, 1986, 2012, 2014, 2021
*vacated by NCAA

The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The Wolverines play their home games at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan has won one NCAA Championship as well as two National Invitation Tournaments (NIT), 15 Big Ten Conference titles and two Big Ten tournament titles. In addition, it has won an NIT title and a Big Ten tournament that were vacated due to NCAA sanctions.[2]

Michigan has had 35 All-Americans, selected 48 times. Eight of these have been consensus All-Americans, which are Cazzie Russell (twice), Rickey Green, Gary Grant, Chris Webber, Trey Burke, as well as Harry Kipke, Richard Doyle and Bennie Oosterbaan (twice) who were retroactively selected by the Helms Foundation.[3] Twelve All-Americans have been at least two-time honorees. Russell was the only three-time All-American.[4]

Michigan basketball players have been successful in professional basketball. Seventy-six have been drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA); thirty-one of those were first round draft picks, including both Cazzie Russell and Chris Webber who were drafted first overall. The 1990 NBA draft, in which Rumeal Robinson was selected 10th, Loy Vaught was selected 13th, and Terry Mills was selected 16th made Michigan the third of only ten schools that have ever had three or more players selected in the first round of the same draft.[5] Six players have gone on to become NBA champions for a total of nine times and eight players have become NBA All-Stars a total of 18 times. Rudy Tomjanovich coached both the 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals Champions.[5] Glen Rice is one of only thirteen basketball players to have won a state high school championship, NCAA title and NBA championship.[6]

During the 1990s Michigan endured an NCAA violations scandal, described as involving one of the largest amounts of illicit money in NCAA history, when Ed Martin loaned four players a reported total of $616,000.[7] Due to NCAA sanctions, records from the 1992 Final Four, the 1992–93 season, and 1995–99 seasons have been vacated.[8] Throughout this article asterisks denote awards, records and honors that have been vacated.

  1. ^ "University of Michigan Style Guide: Colors". July 7, 2015. Retrieved July 7, 2015.
  2. ^ 2007–08 Men's Basketball Media Guide. University of Michigan. 2007. p. 5.
  3. ^ 2007–08 Men's Basketball Media Guide. University of Michigan. 2007. p. 145.
  4. ^ 2007–08 Men's Basketball Media Guide. University of Michigan. 2007. p. 13.
  5. ^ a b 2007–08 Men's Basketball Media Guide. University of Michigan. 2007. pp. 22–3.
  6. ^ "Tourney History: Triple Crown". CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008. Retrieved August 6, 2008.
  7. ^ "Amaker fired: Failure to reach NCAA tourney costs Michigan coach". SI.com. March 17, 2007. Retrieved August 8, 2008.
  8. ^ 2007–08 Men's Basketball Media Guide. University of Michigan. 2007. p. 8.

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