Newsstand: Michigan hockey falls in Frozen Four for second straight season
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Michigan hockey made the Frozen Four in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2002 and 2003. Just like those seasons, the year ended without a national title. The Maize and Blue fell to Quinnipiac, 5-2, in the national semifinal. Michigan is a young team; Quinnipiac is a veteran squad. The Wolverines hit the post a few times, and Quinnipiac had some soft goals. It just didn’t feel like it was Michigan’s night Thursday in Tampa Bay.
Michigan Wolverines basketball redshirt freshman guard Isaiah Barnes left the team for the transfer portal a day after the season ended. He now has his transfer destination, committing to Tulsa Thursday night.
Barnes and junior center Hunter Dickinson, a two-time All-Big Ten selection, are the two Michigan players to have entered their information into the portal this offseason. Two others, guards Jett Howard and Kobe Bufkin, have declared for the 2023 NBA Draft. Michigan has filled one of those roster spots already, bringing in former Alabama and Texas Tech guard Nimari Burnett.
Tulsa struggled this past season, going 5-25 overall as part of the American Athletic Conference under first-year head coach Eric Konkol. The Golden Hurricane lost their final 12 games, including to Wichita State in the first round of the conference tournament. The program’s last win came Jan. 21.
Tulsa hasn’t made the NCAA Tournament since it faced Michigan in the 2016 First Four, losing 67-62. The Maize and Blue advanced to the round of 64 and lost to Notre Dame in Brooklyn.
Yesterday was national student athlete day. Naturally, Michigan football and other teams thanked their players on social media.
The amount of money that a Power 5 school is going to allocate to its football recruiting budget every year doesn’t have a direct correlation to winning on the field. But don’t tell that to Michigan, whose expenses on recruiting in 2022 exceeded two million, the only program in the Big Ten Conference to do so.
Coming off their second-straight conference championship and consecutive College Football Playoff appearance, the Wolverines spent $2,240,064 on recruiting last year, according to analysis released by USA Today of public records for every non-private Power 5 football team in the country, which was nearly a million more than the team’s average from 2017-2022 which came to $1,353,431.
In that six season period, two Big Ten schools averaged over a million – Michigan and Penn State.
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Headlines Of The Day
• Clayton Sayfie, The Wolverine: Former Michigan basketball guard Isaiah Barnes commits to Tulsa
• Zach Libby, The Wolverine: Michigan trending up for the notable uncommitted spring game visitors
• Chris Balas, The Wolverine: Michigan basketball: Don’t give up on 2023-24 just yet
• EJ Holland, The Wolverine: A look at the 10 best Michigan recruits I saw on the road in March
