Michigan’s Fab Five had an extraordinary impact on college basketball and to an extent, they still overshadow modern-day Michigan teams. So it’s no surprise that those guys are still front and center when Michigan plays Duke. And not surprisingly, given their track record, they still get it wrong.
In this video clip, Michigan grad Rich Eisen baits Chris Webber into saying that he saw Saturday’s Duke-Michigan game as a chance for “vengeance.”
Both wrong all the way around.
Then someone asked Fab Five
member Jalen Rose what he thought about the game and he, too, took a swing and missed, saying this: “Usually, a good Duke team has multiple big-time players. Every time we talk about Duke [this year], we’re only talking about one player. That’s going to be their problem today against Michigan.”
Obviously, he was referring to Cameron Boozer, who indeed is a big-time player. But as Jon Scheyer has said before and said again after the big win over the Wolverines, this team has great connectivity.
Sometimes you get that. UConn really had it in 1999 and the Blue Devils had it in 2010 in a huge way. This year’s team may or may not do well in March. We think they’ll do reasonably well, but you never know until you do. This group, though, seems to understand how to win and with Isaiah Evans maturing into a solid player, Pat Ngongba becoming a reliable presence and other guys understanding their roles, we like their chances.
We haven’t heard from Juwan Howard this week, but Howard, also part of the Fab Five, was once on the TV show The West Wing and was forced to say he had played basketball at Duke. He said it made him mad. For Duke fans, that wasn’t vengeance, since Duke never lost to the Fab Five.
Karma?
That works.
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