6 - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com BARTELSTEIN From Page 8 to Beilein, threw one final wrench into Bartelstein's recruitment. Tilton, whom Bartelstein called a "huge coach Beilein fan," ran the same two-guard offense that Michigan featured, especially earlier in Beilein's ten- ure. Bartelstein wasn't a Wolverine fan but had sev- eral friends from high school at Michigan. "Michigan seriously came in so late that it was never in the realm," Sheri said. "That was never part of the plan." The Wolverines had also just wrapped up a sea- son that saw the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance in 11 years. But something else about Michigan caught Bartelstein's eye; the Wolverines' two captains, starting point guard C.J. Lee and David Merritt, another guard that saw significant playtime, were both walk-ons. With Merritt and Lee graduating, Beilein was intrigued by Tilton's email. Bartelstein had been to Ann Arbor before to visit friends - "never thinking he'd play basketball there," as Sheri put it - but on the weekend of April 26, 2009, Bartelstein and Mark spent the day with Beilein and assistant coach Jeff Meyer touring the campus and basketball facilities. With time to spare before their flight home, father and son took a seat along the first-base line at Ray Fisher Stadium to catch the end of an Indiana-Mich- igan baseball game. "He turned to me and said, 'Dad, I'm going to Michigan,' "Mark recalled, laughing. He tried to slow his son down - even making Bar- telstein sleep on his decision before committing - but the decision was sealed. "I was just like, 'I don't think there's anywhere else that I would go,' " Bartelstein said. "After being shown around, it was just obvious that this was a dream come true. "It's Michigan. How do you turn down Michigan?" The next day, Bartelstein called Beilein to formally commit. By that time, Northwestern had also entered the picture, tendering Bartelstein the same preferred walk-on offer as Michigan. Evanston is just a half hour away from Highland Park, and the Wildcats, a team often predicated on mid-major caliber recruits, may have given Bartelstein a better opportunity to see the floor. The Wolverines had just made the tour- nament in Beilein's second year, and though the team wasn't as talent-laden as it is now, the headman was honest with the Bartelsteins. "They told me right away that nothing was going to be guaranteed," Bartelstein said. "'You're going to have to work really hard for everything, you're going to have to play better than any scholarship player, and if you and a scholarship player are even, you're not going to play. You've got to be above him, but you can do it. Look at C.J. and Dave; I'm not going to say you can't do anything, but it's goingto be really, really hard."' The first time Bartelstein saw his jersey, No. 20, illuminated under the lights of his old locker in Crisler Arena, he snapped a picture and sent it to family members. "He's always been a really, really good player, but the day that he sent the photo, it was - there's no question that you take a deep breath and go, 'Oh my goodness, he's actually playing for Michigan,' " Mark said. "It's an overwhelming thing." Sheri cried. "I was happy that I guess," her voice trails off, seeped in emotion, "that he made it, that he was liv- ing his dream." Against Northern Michigan in Michigan's first game of the 2009-10 season, Bartelstein - playing the final four minutes of the Wolverines' 97-50 win - penetrated a crease in the paint. When help-side defense came, he dished what he still contends was a "really good pass" to former forward Eric Puls for what should've been his first career assist. But Puls bobbled it out of bounds, and it wasn't until his high-school coach called that Bar- telstein found out he was credited with a turnover - the only non-foul stat he record- ed all season. "If you go back and look at the tape, you would realize that it, was really just a -" he paused to laugh, not wanting to throw a" teammate under the, bus, " a miscommunica- tion." His playing time has been few and far between since. There was an ankle surgery. his freshman year and another this season - he injured it during a two-minute outing in the opener against Slippery Rock - both on the right ankle, and a concussion that sidelined him for a sig- nificant stretch of his Senior Josh Bartelstein has th sophomore season. He missed his first six shots before finally drain- ing a 3-pointer in an 80-57 loss to Purdue in his sophomore year. His only others points, another 3-pointer, came in a blowout loss to Ohio State in last season's Big Ten Tournament. The prolific shooter who tore up the prep league has shot just 13.3 per- cent from the field in his career. Still, former guard Stu Douglass insists that when healthy, Bartelstein is a different player in practice. "A lot of times in practice, he would kill us - just not miss a thing," Douglass said in a phone interview. Bartelstein, who's admittedly not the most out- spoken person, has become the team's unofficial spokesperson. Bartelstein's first blog was titled "The Wolverines Abroad: Player's Perspective." Written Aug 22, 2010, it was a part of a seven- part series of blogs - each by a different player - chronicling the team's offseason trip to Europe. When the concept became a hit back home with the fans, a team official approached the team ask- ing if any players would be interested in writing a season-long weekly blog; Bartelstein was the only volunteer, and the "Bartelstein Blog" was born. He admitted he didn't think it would ever catch on, but since he wrote the first one on Oct. 15, he's written at least one in nearly every single week of the past three seasons. Writing about a variety of topics, Bartelstein gives fans unique behind-the-scenes access on a variety of topics, using a dialect that mom says is "exactly how he talks." Bartelstein receives more than a hundred emails each week from fans responding to entries and ask- ing questions he'll answer in future blogs, while other fans, even students, approach him on campus and at games about it. While he says the fan interaction is his favorite part, he plans to aggre- gate the 77 blogs he's writ- ten - with at least a few more coming in the next month - and turn it into a book, highlighting his time at Michigan. "When I look back at what I wrote my sopho- more year, I can see how far we've come," he said. "It's really rewarding for me because it's kind of a journal of my years at Michigan. "Between the blog and being a captain, I prob- ably am more well known (than most walk-ons), but I enjoy it. I love interact- ing with people." FILE PHOTO/Daily iving with Bar- e ear of the locker room. telstein has its perks, Douglass - Bartel- stein's roommate for two years - says. Douglass and Novak lived in an off-campus apart- ment with Bartelstein duringtheir junior and senior seasons, and Morgan, Hardaway and Jon Horford have moved in since. Bartelstein has a wealth of information regard- ing the business side of the NBA that he's picked up from his dad, along with a multitude of stories his dad has gathered through the years (Indiana Pacer forward Danny Granger, one of Mark's former cli- ents, became former forward Colton Christian's favorite player after Bartelstein told teammates about Granger's plans to build a Batman-style Bat- cave beneath his New Mexico home). While NCAA regulations prohibit agents from interacting with student-athletes, Mark's situation is a unique exception - though he leaves the busi- ness side of his profession out ofhis son's apartment. "We just don't go there with that," Mark said, adding that he treats Bartelstein's roommates no different than the roommates of his daughter, a Uni- versity freshman. When Bartelstein moved in with Novak and Dou- glass, Douglass realized he could take advantage of Bartelstein's knack for taking around-the-house responsibilities, letting trash and dishes pile up so that Bartelstein would eventually clean it up. But even before living with Bartelstein, Douglass saw his teammate as a friend he could lean on, some- thing that only magnified when their rooms were next door to each other. "He was the perfect roommate for me," Douglass said. "From the cleaning to the stories and the help- ing me out, I couldn't ask for a better roommate or a better teammate, honestly. "My parents weren't always there to talk to, or I wouldn't always want to talk to them on the phone, so I'd go to Josh. He's genuinely one of the greatest guys I've ever been around and one of, if not the best teammate I've ever been around." Douglass said he first saw Bartelstein take on a significant leadership role on last season's scout team. Despite notbeing a prototypical, floor-general leader, Bartelstein found other ways to lead from the sidelines and off the court. "He's not going to get in your face, but when the time comes, when the moment comes for him to say something, he's going to say it," Douglass said. "He's very good at sitting back and reading a situa- tion, looking at a situation, and looking over all the information and aspects of what's going on on the court, off the court, and then being able to talk to somebody." After Ohio eliminated Michigan from last year's postseason, ending the careers of former captains Novak and Douglass, Beilein approached Bartel- stein and Burke moments after the team plane land- ed in Michigan. "He said, 'Stu and Zack are gone now. You two are probably our two most natural leaders.' (Becom- ing captain) was going to be a goal of mine anyway, but even when coach Beilein recruited me, he said, 'You're going to have to be a leader,' and now it's my turn," Bartelstein said. Beilein noted that it's a rarity in his career to nominate a captain who rarely sees the floor, but that Bartelstein was the "natural" selection. "That is the most selfless, team-team-team guy that I may have ever coached, and as a result, it was natural," Beilein said in November. "That young man has the ear of this locker room and also he has the ear of the coachingstaff, as well." espite a 24-6 first-half run and 16 sec- ond-half points from Burke, Indiana - like Purdue the year before - spoiled Michigan's senior night. "It was special beforehand," Bartelstein said. "But it was all about the game and winning a Big Ten Championship, so..." his voice trails off. "You just have to have perspective." With no more than a month left in his-Michigan career, perspective is something Bartelstein has thought about a lot across the past four years. 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