The greatest gift the Daily has given me is the understanding that there was nothing wrong with me after all. This community of girls has shown me that.
The point is that championship games only come around so often. When they do, you should really be a part of the former.
Their stories are just as layered and their accomplishments are just as important as those of the men’s teams that have been in the spotlight all this time. They just haven’t received the same level of attention.
The Michigan women’s basketball, hockey and men’s basketball teams all played in the Big Ten Tournament over the weekend, and all three punched their tickets to the NCAA Tournament in the process.
An underrated starter, a reliable sixth man, a graduate transfer and a living miracle made up the four-player contingent honored Sunday in front of a sold-out crowd at Crisler Center.
What is done in the dark always eventually comes out into the light. It has been a week of reckoning for the Michigan State athletic department.
More often than not, people use the phrase, “there’s always next year,” about their New Year’s resolutions as a joke because they know the cycle will continue, for however many years it takes. But for the Michigan hockey and men’s basketball teams in 2018, that wasn’t the case.
In the fourth month of Michigan’s 2017 season — bowl month — the same problems that haunted it all year came to the forefront and sent the Wolverines into 2018 with a sour taste in their mouths.
With the Michigan football team’s 2017 regular season in the books, the Daily looks back at the performance of each unit this year and looks ahead to the future in 2018. In this edition: defensive backs.
Looking back on that time three years later, the Athletics South Competition and Performance Project seems to be a monumental leap forward, especially for these teams that have been prioritized less than Michigan’s big three revenue-generating sports.