We just finished recording a podcast segment about next year's basketball team and forgot to mention him, so this can't be that much of a surprise. NEWS: Michigan guard Isaiah Barnes plans to enter the transfer portal, he tells @On3sports. Former four-star recruit.https://t.co/pBBkqNrgra Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) March 19, 2023 Barnes came in with the 2021 class as an athletic body that Michigan hoped to develop into the kind of three-and-D-plus slashing wing-guard that they've desperately needed since Isaiah Livers graduated. Two years of not playing when Michigan so desperately needed guys remotely like what Barnes projected to was the first clue it's not happening here. The next clue was Barnes being unavailable for the back end of the season once the rotation solidified without him. His production the few times earlier this year that he did get on the court was: Hopefully a new venue will unlock the player we always hoped he would be. They did get a redshirt o
Xavier is in the Sweet 16 for the first time in six years after an 84-73 victory over Pittsburgh in the 2023 NCAA tournament on Sunday. This was an impressive…
The 2022-23 Michigan Men's Basketball season is mercifully over after today's crushing loss to Vanderbilt in the second round of the NIT. if there's one thing you can say about this team, it's that they died as they lived, collapsing late in games and rescuing defeat from the jaws of victory. Despite playing without both Kobe Bufkin and Jett Howard, the Wolverines put together a solid game, leaning on the heroics of Hunter Dickinson and Dug McDaniel to get them to an ESPN calculated win probability of 96.7% with 1:30 to go. And then? Collapse. Again. Michigan turned it over on three straight possessions, allowed Vanderbilt to score each time off turnovers, and the last chance basket to win at the buzzer didn't go down. 66-65, a 9-0 run by the Commodores in the final 58 seconds to close. The first half had a few distinct chapters, the extended Vanderbilt run to take a lopsided lead, the extended Michigan run to close the gap, and then the back-and-forth last f
A spot in the NIT quarterfinals will be on the line Saturday afternoon when Kobe Bufkin, Dug McDaniel and No. 3 seed Michigan visit Tyrin Lawrence and No. 2 see
Whenever a major conference team with NCAA Tournament ambitions winds up in the NIT, the first question one asks about their trajectory in the upcoming games is "how much do they care?". Do they want to be here? Or are they going through the motions? That was the question in my head as I got ready for Michigan's opening round NIT game against Toledo tonight, especially upon hearing the news that Jett Howard would miss the game with an ankle injury. In the first half, the answer looked ambiguous, perhaps leading towards "yeah, they're mailing it in". Michigan allowed gobs of points out of the gate amid a sloppy start and ultimately trailed at the break. But the first few minutes of the second half answered the question, swinging the pendulum to "no, they want to win" as hot Michigan shooters powered the squad to an 11-0 run to start the half and from that point forward, they never relinquished the lead. It may not have been the greatest outing wir