Michigan Men's Basketball

April 06, 2013

: Adam Glanzman/Daily

Sights and scenes of the Final Four

BY ADAM GLANZMAN

Thousands of college basketball fans have flocked to Atlanta, Georgia to watch the NCAA Final Four. These images depict some of the scenes in Atlanta this weekend.

April 05, 2013

: Adam Glanzman/Daily

Bacari Alexander finds new motivational tool for Saturday's pregame vs. Syracuse

BY COLLEEN THOMAS

ATLANTA — First the caged Jayhawk, then Pringles, and now orange juice?
Michigan assistant coach Bacari Alexander has been the main source of pre-game motivation in the Wolverines’ NCAA Tournament run with his humorous pep talks before each game.

April 05, 2013

: Adam Glanzman/Daily

Two numbers, four and six, solve the 2-3 equation

BY DANIEL WASSERMAN

All week long, the only two numbers anyone has wanted to talk about in the lead-in to the Michigan men’s basketball team’s semifinal game with Syracuse are two and three.

April 05, 2013

: Adam Glanzman/Daily

Opposing approaches become clear in the game before the game

BY EVERETT COOK

“We’ll play our zone,” Triche said with a chuckle. “We’ve stopped some good players of lately and before. (Former UConn guard) Kemba Walker was doing his thing, he got eight points against our zone. I don’t see (Burke) being too much better than Kemba Walker.”

April 04, 2013

: File Photo/Daily

Breakdown: Michigan and Syracuse battle for a spot in the title game

BY COLLEEN THOMAS

After upsetting top-seeded Kansas in the Sweet 16 and demolishing Florida en route to their first Final Four in 20 years, the Wolverines will take on Syracuse in Saturday’s national semifinal. The Daily basketball beat breaks down the matchup.

April 04, 2013

: Todd Needle/Daily

Future pros soak in special week on campus

BY DANIEL WASSERMAN

A report Thursday claimed Tim Hardaway Jr. and Trey Burke are preapared to enter the NBA Draft at the end of the Michigan men’s basketball team’s season. Three other freshmen likely have professional careers in their future. In the meantime, this past week has given these future pros a special appreciation for the uniqueness of life in Ann Arbor.

April 04, 2013

: Todd Needle/Daily

Michigan gets creative to simulate Syracuse’s zone as semifinal looms

BY EVERETT COOK

For much of the week, much attention has been paid to this zone, put in place by legendary Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, and how Beilein would attack it. The two are friends and have roots back to when Beilein coached at Canisius in the 1990s.

April 03, 2013

: Todd Needle/Daily

Wolverines offense rolling, returning to early-season dominance

BY COLLEEN THOMAS

“Just coming into the (NCAA) Tournament, we wanted to make a statement our first couple of games,” said sophomore guard Trey Burke. “We just tried to stay in the moment. After the loss to Wisconsin (in the Big Ten Tournament), we obviously knew we didn’t play as well as we should’ve played. Coming into the NCAA Tournament, we wanted to come in and make a statement from day one.

April 02, 2013

: Todd Needle/Daily

Seniors say goodbye to Crisler as Michigan preps for Atlanta, Final Four

BY COLLEEN THOMAS

For most of the team, the last practice of the year is a weird feeling — they won’t have mandatory practice until the fall — but it’s even stranger for Bartelstein, Akunne, Vogrich, Corey Person and Blake McLimans, who won’t return after spending four, or, in Person’s case, five years at Crisler.

April 01, 2013

: Todd Needle/Daily

Beilein and Boeheim, from a small gym in Buffalo to the Final Four

BY EVERETT COOK

Back in the early 1990s, Beilein was coaching Canisius College, a small Division I school in Buffalo, N.Y. The gyms would be tiny and cramped — nothing like the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, where Beilein’s current team will play in the Final Four this weekend.

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