With the start of college basketball season on the horizon, we’ll be taking a long look at the conference at large as well as Indiana’s roster over the next month. Today, we preview Michigan.
The biggest offseason bombshell in the Big Ten occurred on May 13 when longtime Michigan coach John Beilein departed Ann Arbor to take the Cleveland Cavaliers head coaching job. Nine days later, Michigan announced the hiring of Juwan Howard, a member of the school’s famed Fab Five teams that went to back-to-back national championship games in the early 90s.
After a 19-year NBA career in which he earned more than $150 million and was a member of two championship teams, Howard spent six years in the NBA as an assistant coach with Miami before returning to his alma mater for his first head coaching job.