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Anderson and Smith
leaving Michigan
e a By Raphael Goodstein " want to be close to my family,"
Daily Sports Editor Smith said.
Smith's departure should mean
After tearing his anterior cruciate extra minutes for returning co-Big
ligament last summer, senior Ten Freshman of the Year, LaVell
forward Brandon Smith decided to Blanchard, who played the same
only play half of the basketball small forward position that Smith
season rather than take a medical did.
redshirt. "It's a major loss," teammate
Smith decided that since he had LaVell Blanchard said. "But they
started at Michigan with Josh had to make a decision for whatev-
Asselin, his best friend and room- er's best for them.:
mate, that it was only appropriate to Smith averaged eight points a
graduate with him as well. game and four rebounds in 19 games
That plan changed Thursday. last season.
Smith decided to leave Michigan Smith's scored a career-high 16
because he wanted to be closer to points in an 89-87 overtime win over
his three-year old child in Amarillo, Penn State last season.
Tex. Forward Leland Anderson
decided to transfer as well.

Brandon Smith has played his last basketball game for Michigan, leaving to be
closer to his three-year old child.

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Sayonara
Players leaving the Michigan basketball team is nothing
new. Since 1992, 11 players have left for one reason or
another. Some, like Tariq Abdul-Wahad (formerly Olivier
Saint-jean), have gone on to the NBA while others, like
Rick McIver have faded into obscurity. Here are the play-
ers that have left Michigan since 1992.
TRANSFER YEAR PLAYER
1992 RicH MCIVER
- SAM MITCHELL
1994 LEON DERRICKS
1995 BOBBY CRAWFORD
MAKHTAR NDIAYE
OLIVIER SAINT-JEAN
1997 WILLIE MITCHELL
ALBERT WHITE Note:
transfe
1998 BRANDUN HUGHES
2000 LELAND ANDERSON
BRANDON SMITH

Makhtar Ndiaye is
just one Wolverine
who soughr greener,
pastures elsewhere,
like in Macedonia.
Michael Talley did not
rer.

Smith was a leading candidate for
the team's captaincy going into this
season and viewed as a team leader
- by the younger Wolverines last
season.
Anderson averaged only two
points and one rebound in 13 games
last season.
He missed 10 games due to a leg
injury.
"They were both an integral part
of our team," coach Brian Ellerbe
said in a press release.
Anderson has moved back home
to Attleboro, Mass. for the summer
and intends to continue playing bas-
ketball.
He refused to comment.
"He had some problems - every
freshman does," Blanchard said.
The two will join Jamal Crawford,
who left after an up-and-down
freshman year, in leaving the
Wolverines.
Crawford left Michigan for the
NBA draft and was selected eighth

by Cleveland before being traded to
Chicago.
Like Crawford, Smith and
Anderson suffered a tumultuous
season.
Sophomore guard Kevin Gaines,
Anderson and Smith were at the
.core of an Ann Arbor investigation
into a theft at a student's apartment.
A student's Palm Pilot disap-
peared after Smith, Anderson and
Gaines visited. The three were
named as suspects however Gaines
and Smith's names were later
cleared and no charges were
pressed.
The police report said tharthe stu-
dent did not pursue charges because
Ellerbe called the student asking her
to drop the charges. The student's
Palm Pilot was returned.
"I've been here three years and
it's been nothing but good times,"
Smith said.
-- The Associated Press contributed
to this Report.

Baseball funk:
Hyde dumped,
Zahn suspende$
By Ryan C. Moloney
Daily Sports Editor
Michigan assistant baseball
coach Matt Hyde was fired follow-
ing the conclusion of the 2000 base-
ball season by head coach Geoff
Zahn.
Hyde, who coached outfield
and catchers, confirmed thefiring
yesterday, saying Zahn "wanted to
bring in a pitching coach."
Zahn was unavailable for com-
ment.
The Michigan Athletic
Department continues to list Hye
as an assistant coach on its official
webpage, mgoblue.com. No official
press release was ever issued
Hyde's dismissal.
A favorite among both players
and parents of the team, Hyde
described the firing as "one of
those things that happens in coach-
ing.
"I tried to help as much as I could
with the time I was here," he said.
"Changes needed to be made."
Volunteer coach Andy Hood
heard of the firing second-hand
from Hyde himself after having kt
Ann Arbor at the conclusion of W
season.
"I really liked Matt a lot," Hood
said. "But this type of thing hap-
pens a lot."
Hyde had been with the program
for four years as an assistant. He
was a student manager with the
team before graduating in 1995..
The dismissal of Hyde is the lat-
est revelation in an inauspicis
offseason for the Michigan coach-
ing staff.
Michigan baseball coach Geoff
Zahn was suspended two weeks age
See SUSPENSION, Page 14


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