Michigan a #1 in Sports Illustrated early bracket
Sports Illustrated puts Michigan #1 in their "Michigan Region," with Texas #2.
Other #1s are no surprise: Gonzaga, Baylor, and Villanova.
(MSU is among the first 8 out.)
https://www.si.com/college/2021/01/26/march-madness-ncaa-tournament-bracket-gonzaga-baylor
January 26th, 2021 at 2:17 PM ^
That draw would be amazing. It's fun being projected as a 1-seed.
January 26th, 2021 at 4:32 PM ^
Sports Illustrated? I have a vague recollection. Was that a magazine buried under the Playboy's at the barber shop?
January 26th, 2021 at 2:34 PM ^
Love that 8/9. Michigan punks Florida in the tourney.
No thanks on Kansas as a 4. That would be a 4-seed I would not want to deal with. Even though they are jeykl and hyde this year, they got some horses. Give me West Virginia or OSU all day as a 4.
January 27th, 2021 at 7:55 AM ^
There's a pretty decent chance you wouldn't face them with 2 opportunities for them to lose
January 26th, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
Where is 4-8 ASU in this bracket??!!??
#Buildingthebrand #notbitter
January 26th, 2021 at 4:56 PM ^
Have you seen him play there? Seems like they might have done us a favor.
#GoodlookingoutASU
January 26th, 2021 at 5:26 PM ^
I imagine any single player on our team would look bad if you just rolled the ball out and made them make all of their own offense (aka the ASU offense)
He's a good player, just a stupid decision maker
January 26th, 2021 at 5:43 PM ^
You make a good point. I'm assuming the desire to do that, be selfish and create your own, is part of why he went there and that desire would not disappear just because he came to Michigan. Thus I still stand by they might have done us a favor.
January 26th, 2021 at 6:13 PM ^
I would 100% rather have Chaundee Brown than Josh Christopher this year. Definitely dodged one there.
January 26th, 2021 at 9:19 PM ^
I’m not bitter in the least about this. It worked out fine for us.
January 26th, 2021 at 3:30 PM ^
Isn't Michigan a #1 seed in pretty much every bracket?
January 26th, 2021 at 3:45 PM ^
Pretty much.
January 26th, 2021 at 6:14 PM ^
Yes, easily. It would be news if they weren't a 1 seed somewhere.
January 26th, 2021 at 5:07 PM ^
WIN THE GAME!
January 26th, 2021 at 5:10 PM ^
January 26th, 2021 at 7:17 PM ^
This unforeseen break might prove to help us. For one, it allows some guys to heal up if they're banged up. Also, allows our players to recharge mentally.
/I'm trying to see the positives.
January 26th, 2021 at 7:24 PM ^
FWIW, a lot of people on the board thought it wasn't the worst thing Michigan missed the Penn State game. Wasn't forced to travel out of state and was allowed to fully prep for Wisconsin the following week. And uh...I think we all remember what happened in that one. I still have to say it in my head sometimes to make sure it was real. 43-6!
January 26th, 2021 at 9:20 PM ^
Not the same. We still practiced that weekend. Aside from that game being cancelled, everything else was normal.
This is a total shutdown - no games, no practice, no lifting, nothing.
January 26th, 2021 at 6:20 PM ^
I remember that edition well. The kiss of death.
January 26th, 2021 at 8:42 PM ^
1976 ... what a great season until that damn Purdue game.
Overall, five shutouts -- Stanford, Wake Forest, Indiana, Minnesota, and Ohio State.
Woody Hayes, after losing 22-0, said Michigan was the finest football team he'd ever seen.
But Purdue. Bob Ufer: "The kick is up, it's ... it's ... no good. No good. Michigan loses."
January 27th, 2021 at 8:58 AM ^
I still have the vivid memory of where I was when I listened on the radio to Ufer's call of Bobby Wood's biffed FG attempt.
It was an excellent team, but it had the problem that bedeviled Schembechler for his entire tenure at Michigan—a high-powered offense during the regular season that completely disappeared in the Rose Bowl, especially against USC. In '76, we averaged over 38 pts per game, and then managed all of 6 against the Trojans.
Unfortunately, that offensive impotence in the Rose Bowl against PAC teams largely continued through Carr's tenure. In 15 Rose Bowls against PAC teams dating back to Jan. 1, 1970, Michigan has scored 21 or more points just four times. And three of those games saw us score 21, 22, and 23 points—hardly offensive explosions. The only game where our offensive performance in the RB against a PAC team matched our regular season output was the second game against Washington under Moeller when we scored 38.
Considering the high-powered offenses we've taken out to Pasadena in virtually all of those seasons, that's a pathetic record of offensive futility.
January 26th, 2021 at 6:26 PM ^
I really wish JH would return the uniforms to the semi see thru kind where u can see the pads, and put the number font back to the one of old too. The 1997 jerseys were the best
January 26th, 2021 at 6:37 PM ^
Gotta stay on that one line to avoid Zag or Baylor brackets.
January 26th, 2021 at 9:21 PM ^
Down goes Texas.