The above image is from Michigan Basketball's twitter feed, the towels & "Big Heads" being distributed to the first X number of fans who arrived at the Crisler Center for last Saturday's (6 December) noontime game against the feisty Fighting Illini of Illinois, a 79-69 victory. I covet!
Below are all the games that the 2017-2018 squad of valiant Wolverines, Team 102, have played. I wasn't able to watch all the games, but I did see the majority. In particular, I missed the first two B1G games, played in early December, part of an asinine new scheme whereby every club in the league played two games (one home, one away) weeks earlier than normal, so that league play can end a week early, so that the B1G Tournament can be held at New York City's Madison Square Garden. Last year's B1G Tourney was held in Washington, D.C., even though there aren't any B1G schools in the District of Columbia & this year's B1G Tourney is being held in New York City, even though there aren't any B1G schools in New York State. Just for the record, I hate this. If the B1G continues to turn its back on its Midwestern roots, it is only a matter of time before the taxpayers & fans of the Midwest turn their backs on the B1G. Even beyond the paramount matter of Midwestern loyalty (or lack thereof), there are serious sporting considerations to the conference's slavish devotion to the East Coast: With over a week's layoff between the end of the B1G Tourney & the commencement of the N.C.A.A. Tourney, will the rusty B1G clubs be picked off by clubs from other conferences who have not suffered the same period of enforces idleness? Is the conference kneecapping its own members' ability to be competitive at the most crucial time of year? Of course, in this, as in so many other boneheaded &/or otherwise misbegotten decisions, no one at the B1G asked my opinion.
Friday, 3 November 2017 @ Crisler Center
Exhibition
Michigan 82-50 Grand Valley State
0-0, B1G 0-0
Saturday, 11 November 2017 @ Crisler Center
Maui Invitational—Maui on the Mainland
Michigan 86-66 North Florida
1-0, B1G 0-0
Monday, 13 November 2017 @ Crisler Center
Michigan 72-65 Central Michigan
2-0, B1G 0-0
Thursday, 16 November 2017 @ Crisler Center
Michigan 61-47 Southern Mississippi
3-0, B1G 0-0
Monday, 20 November 2017 @ Lahaina Civic Center [a neutral site]
Maui Invitational
L.S.U. 77-75 Michigan
3-1, B1G 0-0
Tuesday, 21 November 2017 @ Lahaina Civic Center [a neutral site]
Maui Invitational
Michigan 102-64 Chaminade
4-1, B1G 0-0
Wednesday, 22 November 2017 @ Lahaina Civic Center [a neutral site]
Maui Invitational
Michigan 68-60 V.C.U.
5-1, B1G 0-0
Sunday, 26 November 2017 @ Crisler Center
Michigan 87-42 U.C. Riverside
6-1, B1G 0-0
Wednesday, 29 November @ Dean E. Smith Student Activities Center
A.C.C./B1G Challenge
(№ 13) North Carolina 86-71 Michigan
6-2, B1G 0-0
Saturday, 2 December @ Crisler Center
Michigan 69-55 Indiana
7-2, B1G 1-0
Monday, 4 December 2017 @ (Sponsor) Arena
Ohio State 71-62 Michigan
7-3, B1G 1-1
Saturday, 9 December 2017 @ Crisler Center
Michigan 78-69 U.C.L.A. (O.T.)
8-3, B1G 1-1
Tuesday, 12 December 2017 @ Frank C. Erwin Jr. Center
Michigan 59-52 Texas
9-3, B1G 1-1
Saturday, 16 December 2017 @ (Sponsor) Arena [a neutral site]
Michigan 90-58 Detroit Mercy
10-3, B1G 1-1
Thursday, 21 December @ Crisler Center
Michigan 97-47 Alabama A. & M.
11-3, B1G 1-1
Saturday, 30 December @ Crisler Center
Michigan 76-51 Jacksonville
12-3, B1G 1-1
Tuesday, 2 January 2018 @ Carver-Hawkeye Arena
Michigan 75-68 Iowa
13-3, B1G 2-1
Saturday, 6 January 2018 @ Crisler Center
Michigan 79-69 Illinois
14-3, B1G 3-1
Next: (№ 5) Purdue @ Crisler Center.
This is a potentially murderous week, with the valiant Wolverines playing the undisputed two best clubs in the conference: the well-engineered Boilermakers within the friendly confines of the Crisler Center on Tuesday, 9 January, & then on the road against the (№ 4) dastardly Spartans of Michigan Agricultural on Saturday, 13 December.
Go Blue!
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