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2014

JUNE 27: After turning its at-large bid 
into a run to the College World Series, the 
Michigan baseball team took on Vanderbilt 
in Game 3. The Wolverines lost, 8-2, ending 
their Cinderella run just short of a national 
championship.

OCTOBER 27: In a monsoon-like downpour, 
the Michigan football team beat Notre 
Dame, 45-14, after an explosive game from 
Hassan Haskins. The blowout win will be the 
last game between the rivals until 2033.

FEBRUARY 20: Michigan men’s basketball 
coach Juwan Howard had an altercation with 
Wisconsin coach Greg Gard, throwing a 
punch at a Badgers assistant coach, leading 
to a five-game suspension. In his absence, 
assistant coach Phil Martelli stepped up 
to help lead the team to March Madness.

MARCH 28: The Michigan women’s basketball 
team reached the Elite Eight for the first 
time in program history, led by senior Naz 
Hillmon. The Wolverines lost to Louisville.

2020

MARCH 12: As the COVID-19 pandemic 
began, the NCAA canceled all ongoing winter 
and spring sports. Those concerns also caused 
the postponement of fall sports, including 
football, later in the year.

 OCTOBER 31: After beating Minnesota just 
a week prior, the Michigan football team lost 
to underdog Michigan State. The loss was the 
first in one of the Wolverines’ worst seasons in 
recent program history.

SPORTS
over the
YEARS

2021
2022
2019

MARCH 30: In the Elite Eight, No. 1 seed 
Michigan men’s basketball lost to UCLA. 
The Wolverines fell short of a Final Four 
appearance.

NOVEMBER 27: Michigan football beat 
Ohio State in The Game, ending an eight-
game losing streak to its rival. 

DECEMBER 31: No. 2 Michigan football faced 
Georgia in the Orange Bowl, losing 34-11 to 
end its championship push.

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Michigan finds its Beilein 
replacement, hires Juwan Howard

MAX MARCOVITCH
2019 Managing Sports Editor

The 
Michigan 
basketball 
program is entering a new era by 
harkening back to an old one.
Miami Heat assistant coach 
and former Fab Five star Juwan 
Howard has been hired to be the 
Wolverines’ next head coach, as 
first reported by Jon Rothstein of 
CBS Sports and officially confirmed 
by Michigan spokesman Tom 
Wywrot on Wednesday. Howard 
is set to replace John Beilein, who 
accepted a head coaching job with 
the Cleveland Cavaliers last Monday 
after 12 seasons in Ann Arbor. It will 
be a five-year deal, according to Jeff 
Goodman of Stadium.
Howard will be the 17th men’s 
basketball coach in school history.
“I am very excited about the 
opportunity to lead the University 
of Michigan’s storied basketball 
program,” Howard said in a press 
release. “I have been very fortunate 
to be part of a great championship 
organization in the Miami Heat 
for the last nine years — three as 
a player and six as a coach. It was 
always going to take something 
incredibly special for me to leave 
Miami; however, I know in my heart 
this is the right place and the right 
time.
“As a ‘Michigan Man’ I know the 
place our program has in college 
basketball and I embrace the chance 
to build onto that history and lead 
us to championships both in the 
Big Ten and national level. We will 
continue to develop young men on 
the court, in the classroom and in 
the community that our fan base 
will continue to be proud of.”

Howard spent 19 years as a player 
in the NBA, making one All Star team 
and winning two NBA titles. Upon 
his retirement in 2013, Howard was 
hired by the Miami Heat, where he 
has since held an assistant coaching 
position. In recent weeks, his name 
has popped up as one of interest 
for NBA head coaching openings. 
According 
to 
ESPN’s 
Adrian 
Wojnarowski, Howard interviewed 
with the Minnesota Timberwolves 
for the franchise’s head coaching 
position, a job which ultimately went 
to Ryan Saunders.
“I’m happy for Juwan, Jenine and 
his family, and feel he is deserving 
of this opportunity to coach at the 
University of Michigan,” said Heat 
president Pat Riley in a press release. 
“He is going back to a school and a 
conference in which he is revered. 
I think it is a great step forward for 
him and the University, and I wish 
him nothing but the best, because 
that’s what he’s given us.”
Added Heat head coach Erik 
Spoelstra: “Juwan is an absolute star 
as a person, player and coach. I feel 
he is more than ready. He is a terrific 
leader and mentor, which translates 
very well to the collegiate level. While 
we are losing a valuable member 
of our staff and a great friend, I am 
happy for him and his family. He will 
forever be a champion and part of the 
HEAT family and I am excited to see 
him take the next step.”
Most around campus, though, 
still associate Howard with his days 
wearing the maize and blue, as a key 
cog in the Fab Five squads of the early 
1990s that still hold strong cultural 
significance at the school. Howard 
averaged over 20 points per game in 
1993-94, his last college season.
Fellow Fab Five teammates Jalen 

Rose and Jimmy King have been 
among Howard’s stanchest public 
advocates since Beilein announced 
his departure — which certainly 
portends a fully-healed relationship 
between the Fab Five and the athletic 
department.
“There’s a guy named Juwan 
Howard that’s from Chicago,” Rose 
said on Get Up!, his morning ESPN 
show, last Friday. “He’s going to be 
able to help recruit that market. All-
American in high school, came to 
the University of Michigan and was 
a member of the Fab Five. He was 
the first person to sign their Letter 
of Intent. In theory, he also helped 
recruit each one of us. He was always 
the adult in the room amongst us.”
“I think Juwan is the guy who 
can pick up the torch and carry it 
even further,” King said, per the 
Detroit Free Press, at the third 
annual Champions for Change 
Gala at Crisler Center to benefit the 
ChadTough Foundation.
The program has gone through 
ebbs and flows since the early ‘90s, 
but in many ways it is still tethered 
to that group; the hiring of Howard is 
a nod to that. For that reason, he will 
begin his tenure with some goodwill 
among fans and baked-in cache with 
recruits.
That’s not to suggest the task will 
be easy.
The 
long-term 
challenge? 
Sustaining the success Beilein left, 
after cultivating the greatest era 
in program history. No small feat, 
either.
But it’s a challenge he and 
Michigan are clearly ready to take on. 
Over 25 years since leaving campus, 
Juwan Howard is back, set to pave 
a new path in Michigan basketball 
history.

Michigan gets signature win, 
beats Notre Dame, 45-14

ARIA GERSON
2019 Daily Sports Writer

Cesar Ruiz heard the question, 
then he cracked a smile.
“Do you guys feel like you wrote 
a memorable chapter in this rivalry 
tonight?”
The junior center responded 
immediately: “Um, yes.”
Last week, Michigan got its 
second loss at Penn State, effectively 
ending any hopes of a Big Ten 
championship and the College 
Football Playoff. In the days leading 
up to the Wolverines’w matchup 
with Notre Dame, the biggest 
question was clear: What is there 
still to play for?
Michigan players insisted there 
was still plenty, most of all the 
chance to beat their rivals, but it was 
still a little hard to believe. At least, 
until Hassan Haskins ran 25 yards 
— several with a tackler on his back 
— on the Wolverines’ second drive of 
the game, one that eventually ended 
in a Zach Charbonnet touchdown.
And as the heavens descended 
on Ann Arbor, Michigan seemed 
unfazed. An offense that had 
struggled for explosive plays all year 
ripped off four 20-plus yard runs in 
the first half alone. The Wolverines 
(6-2 overall, 3-2 Big Ten) rode that 
run game and their typical stingy 
defense to a 45-14 win over No. 8 
Notre Dame (5-2) in arguably the 
most impressive win of the Jim 

Harbaugh era.
“We realized after (last week), 
going into this week for Monday’s 
practice that offensively, we’ve gotta 
come out that way from start to 
finish,” said senior quarterback Shea 
Patterson. “You can’t come out flat 
and expect to make a comeback in 
the end. They helped out our defense, 
our defense played lights out tonight. 
I thought we executed all night 
offensively and I think the results 
show for themselves.”
Though Michigan had to settle for 
a field goal on its first drive, it made 
one thing clear: it was run-it-down-
their-throats time. 
Patterson didn’t complete a pass 
until the second quarter, after his 
team was already up 10-0 — and 
with the rainy conditions, it was 
probably for the better. After the 
field goal, the Wolverines scored 
touchdowns on two straight drives, 
both by freshman running back Zach 
Charbonnet. And after he pulled 
a defender with him on the first of 
those two drives, Haskins hurdled 
his would-be tackler in the second, 
an encore to a 20-yard rush that sent 
110,000 fans in maize ponchos into a 
frenzy.
“We said in the locker room, 
we knew what kind of game it was 
gonna be,” Ruiz said. “We changed 
the openers a little bit. We knew we 
were gonna be ground and pounding 
a lot today. It’s the game we’ve been 
waiting for. We love running the ball. 
And just, we knew today was gonna 
be the day we were gonna be able to 
showcase it.”

Haskins finished with 149 yards 
on 20 attempts, a career high, while 
Charbonnet added 74 yards on 
15 attempts for two touchdowns 
and tied a program-record nine 
touchdowns for a freshman running 
back.
As the rain slowed in the third 
quarter, so did Michigan — going 
three-and-out on three consecutive 
drives and then giving up a 
touchdown to cut its lead to 10. But 
the Wolverines stayed the course, 
coming back for a touchdown drive 
that included a Haskins 49-yard 
rush to put them up, 24-7. Then, they 
opened up the passing game and ran 
up the score with three touchdowns 
in the fourth quarter.
Through the entire game, the 
Wolverines found an offensive 
identity and stuck to it, never 
deviating from the run, even 
when those drives stalled in the 
third quarter. Notre Dame did the 
opposite, looking befuddled with 
every move Michigan made. Book 
readied to throw, even with pass-
rushers in his face on nearly every 
play, even when the ball slipped 
around as rain continued to fall.
With their fierce running game, 
the 
Wolverines 
answered 
the 
questions of offensive identity that 
have surrounded them all season. 
They also answered the question of 
whether a rivalry win was enough of 
a motivation for a team whose goals 
were much loftier.
As Michigan scored at will until 
the clock ran out, the answer to that 
question went without saying.

NCAA Tournament, all spring and winter competition 
canceled amid COVID-19 pandemic

DANIEL DASH
2020 Daily Sports Writer

INDIANAPOLIS 
— 
Unlike 
previous years, this March has been 
defined by the madness taking place 
off the hardwood.
Amid 
the 
global 
COVID-
19 pandemic, the 2020 NCAA 
Tournament has been cancelled, 
according to a release from the NCAA. 
All spring and winter competitions 
are cancelled as well.
“This decision is based on the 
evolving COVID-19 public health 
threat, our ability to ensure the events 
do not contribute to spread of the 
pandemic, and the impracticality of 
hosting such events at any time during 
this academic year given ongoing 
decisions by other entities,” NCAA 
President Mark Emmert said in a 
statement.
The decision comes mere hours 
after each major Division I conference 
pulled the plug on their conference 
tournaments. The Ivy League — 
which 
cancelled 
its 
conference 

tournament on Wednesday — was the 
first domino to fall, and the rest of the 
country followed suit shortly after.
Less than 20 minutes before 
the 
beginning 
of 
Thursday’s four-game 
Big Ten Tournament 
slate, 
conference 
commissioner 
Kevin 
Warren called off the 
tournament. Michigan 
and 
Rutgers 
were 
finishing 
pregame 
warmups 
when 
he 
made the final call.
Michigan will cease 
all athletic events — 
including 
offseason 
practices and spring 
recruiting — through 
the remainder of the 
2019-20 academic year 
as part of a Big Ten-
wide 
decision. 
The 
Wolverines will also 
forbid coaches from 
off-campus recruiting 
and hosting recruits 
on official or unofficial 

campus visits during the time period.
“Today, we took the unprecedented 
and proactive decision to suspend 
intercollegiate activities to protect 

the health and well-being of our 
student-athletes, staff and community 
members,” 
Michigan 
athletic 
director Warde Manuel said in a 

ANNA FUDER/Daily 

Michigan hired Miami Heat assistant coach and former Fab Five star Juwan Howard.

ALEXIS RANKIN/2019 Managing Photo Editor 

Michigan relied on its run game and defense to beat Notre Dame 45-14.

statement. “This decision, reached 
in collaboration with the Big Ten 
Conference and campus leaders, was 
reached after thorough discussion 
and 
was 
necessary 
given the magnitude of 
this global issue.
“The 
hard 
work 
and 
dedication 
of 
our 
student-athletes, 
coaches and staff is a 
source of inspiration 
for so many. So, too, 
will be our response 
as we confront the 
spread of this global 
pandemic. On behalf of 
our entire department, 
I thank the Big Ten 
Conference, presidents 
and athletic directors, 
our head coaches and 
community 
partners 
who 
have 
offered 
input and unwavering 
support.”
For the Wolverines, 
the cancellation brings 
an abrupt end to a time 

of year brimming with promise. 
During the first few weeks of the 
spring season, Michigan established 
itself 
as 
a 
national 
contender 
in baseball, softball, tennis and 
gymnastics, among other sports.
For 
basketball 
in 
particular, 
cancellations 
snowballed 
quickly. 
Shortly after the Big Ten cancelled 
its men’s basketball tournament, a 
mass cancellation of other conference 
tournaments ensued. Among the 
leaders of the movement was Duke 
athletic director Kevin White, who 
made waves by suspending all Blue 
Devil 
teams 
from 
competition 
indefinitely. As the chair of the NCAA 
Men’s Basketball Committee, White’s 
decision was the writing on the wall 
for national-level cancellations.
“Some things are bigger than 
basketball,” Wolverines’ coach Juwan 
Howard said in a statement. “This 
is a global situation and we need to 
make sure we follow the guidance and 
direction of the experts and health 
officials. … We want everyone to stay 
safe and take precautions to protect 
yourselves and loved ones.”

MILES MACKLIN/Daily 

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NCAA tournament and all spring and winter 
competition was cancelled.

