Thirty years later, Glen Rice hasn’t lost any of his swagger.
He’s about to recount the final part of the 1988-89 Michigan men’s basketball team’s long, strange journey. One that he made happen. Not singlehandedly, mind you. But over the first five games of the Wolverines’ NCAA Tournament run, he had averaged 30.6 points on 58.3 percent shooting.
So you can see why he was so confident going into the national championship game against Seton Hall.
“I had no idea who they were,” he says. “No idea.”
Bruce Madej, Michigan’s sports information director at the time, remembers going into the locker room at the Seattle Kingdome and seeing Rice, relaxed, sprawled out on the table.