Juwan Howard’s journey to becoming the head coach of Michigan basketball started with a tear.
The Michigan prospect had just announced his intention to play basketball for Steve Fisher when young Juwan Howard learned of his grandmother’s passing. The tears on that day were as real as the day Howard took the podium and gave his first speech as the newly announced David and Meredith Kaplan men’s basketball head coach for his alma mater, the University of Michigan, they were just shed for a different reason.
Just months before that, if you recall, John Beilein shook the college basketball world when he accepted the position in the NBA to join the Cleveland Cavaliers.