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The Catchup: Basketball
mgoblog — Things other than aigh Will Campbell that happened over the break. Basketball failed to implode spectacularly. …probably. They've got winless North Carolina Central (Kenpom rank: #344 of 344) tonight. Kenpom predicts a final score of 96-49 and gives NCC a 0% chance of victory. It does not appear to be the height of hubris to predict a win. The opponents since the watershed Duke game: EMU and Oakland. These games were very similar to each other: Michigan plays a significant amount of uninspired basketball but is bailed out by smoking hot ...

Game 15: Michigan at Indiana Preview
UM Hoops.com — Basics: Who: Michigan (11-3) at Indiana (5-8) Where: Assembly Hall, Bloomington, Indiana When: Wednesday, January 6th 6:30 ET TV: BTN Line: U-M by 6.5 Preview: Stat Sheet, U-M KenPom Profile, IU KenPom Profile Radio: MGoBlue, WWJ-AM (950), WTKA-AM (1050) The good news for Michigan is that Indiana has been absolutely awful this year. The bad news is that Michigan hasn’t won a game at Assembly Hall since 1995. Indiana comes in on a 4 game ...

MBB Game 16: Duke at FSU, 2pm EST
Tomahawk Nation — ... 51.2 25.8 29.6 111.9 78.7 40.4 20.4 20.9 33.3 Fri Nov 21 Michigan (s) (sr) W, 71-56 N 66 107.2 50.0 22.6 ...

Game 16: Iowa at Michigan Preview
UM Hoops.com — Basics: Who: Michigan (12-3) at Iowa (11-5) Where: Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, MI When: Sunday, January 10th 11:30 ET TV: BTN Preview: Stat Sheet, U-M KenPom Profile, Iowa KenPom Profile Radio: MGoBlue, WWJ-AM (950), WTKA-AM (1050) Michigan faces the only team in the Big Ten that shoots a higher percentage of their shots from long range than they do. Iowa shoots 48.5% of their shots from long range and makes 40.2% of them. Compare this to Michigan who shoots ...

2005 West Virginia vs. 2009 Michigan
UM Hoops.com — I was taking a look at Michigan’s Ken Pomeroy profile and compared it to West Virginia’s 2004-2005 profile. 2005 was the year West Virginia made the surprising run into the NCAA Tournament and guys like Kevin Pittsnogle and Mike Gansey became household names.  Here are the tempo free stats with the NCAA rank in parenthesis. I think looking at these two profiles it becomes pretty clear that we are beginning to see the Beilein blueprint. I didn’t include it but the 2006 team also follows most of the same trends. On offense: Both teams played right around 64-65 possessions ...

Unverified Voracity Surveys
mgoblog — Site note: A UMHoops/MGoBlog joint CIL is tentatively on for tonight's Illinois game. Tip is at 8:30, game is on BTN, CIL gets going about 15-30 minutes before. Correction: Dennis Franklin wore #9, not #6 as claimed yesterday, in case you were looking for him in the afro-tastic team picture. Survey results. The survey hit its maximum very quickly; results can be seen here (for most questions) and here (for the open-ended "what do you hate" question). General impressions: Mobile MGoBlog was the big winner in the "new ...