1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball

1990 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, West #3 Seed, Second Round
Conference	Big Ten Conference
1989–90 record	23-8 (12-6 Big Ten)
Head coach	Steve Fisher
Assistant coach	Mike Boyd
Assistant coach	Brian Dutcher
Assistant coach	Jay Smith
MVP	Rumeal Robinson
Captain	Terry Mills
Captain	Rumeal Robinson
Home arena	Crisler Arena

1989–90 Big Ten Conference men's basketball standings
	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
#3 Michigan State	15	–	3	.833	28	–	6	.824
#10 Purdue	13	–	5	.722	22	–	8	.733
#13 Michigan	12	–	6	.667	23	–	8	.742
#18 Illinois	11	–	7	.611	21	–	8	.724
#20 Minnesota	11	–	7	.611	23	–	9	.719
Ohio State	10	–	8	.556	17	–	13	.567
Indiana	8	–	10	.444	18	–	11	.621
Wisconsin	4	–	14	.222	14	–	17	.452
Iowa	4	–	14	.222	12	–	16	.429
Northwestern	2	–	16	.111	9	–	19	.321

Rankings from AP Poll)

The 1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1989–90 season.The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Head coach Steve Fisher led the team to a third-place finish in the Big Ten Conference.^[1] The team earned the number three seed in the 1990 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.^[2] For the third consecutive year, the team was ranked every week of the season in the AP Poll, which expanded from a top twenty poll to a top twenty-five poll that year. It began the season at number four, ended at number thirteen and peaked at number three.^[3] and it ended the season ranked fifteenth in the final UPI Coaches' Poll.^[4]

Terry Mills and Rumeal Robinson served as team co-captains and shared team co-MVP honors.^[5] The team's leading scorers were Robinson (575 points), Mills (562 points), and Loy Vaught (480 points). The leading rebounders were Vaught (346), Mills (247), and Robinson (127).^[6]

Robinson earned consensus All-American recognition.^[7]

The team established the current Big Ten Conference single-game field goals made record against Iowa on March 10, 1990 when it made 55.^[8] The team earned numerous conference statistical championships. Loy Vaught won the rebounding championship for conference games with a 10.7 average and all games with an 11.2 average, while Robinson won the assists title for all games.^[9]^[10] This was the first year that the conference recognized both conference games and all games statistical champions.^[9]^[10]

Vaught also set the Michigan career field goal percentage record at 67.1%. The record would stand until 1998.^[11] On March 8, 1990 against Wisconsin, the team tied the school's February 21, 1987 single-game free throw percentage record by making all fifteen of its free throws, a mark that has only been outdone by the March 2, 2002 16-for-16 performance.^[12] Robinson set the current school career assist average of 5.75 per game, surpassing Gary Grant's 1988 mark.^[13] Loy Vaught ended his career with 135 games played, which surpassed Glen Rice's 1989 school record of 134 games to establish the record.^[14] In 2012, Stu Douglass finished his career with 136 games.^[15]

In the 64-team NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, number three seeded Michigan advanced one round by defeating the fourteen-seeded Illinois State 76–70 before losing to the eleven-seeded Loyola Marymount 149–115.^[2] The March 18, 1990 264-point contest with Loyola Marymount stands as the highest scoring single game in NCAA tournament history.^[16] It is also the highest combined total in Michigan history.^[17]

Rankings

Main article: 1989–90 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings

Ranking movements
**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking.
NR = Not ranked. RV = Received votes. ( ) = First place votes.
	Week
Poll	Pre	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	Final
AP Poll^[3]	4	10	8	6	6	5	5	3	6	7	4	7	5	7	8	13	13

Team players drafted into the NBA

Five players from this team were selected in the NBA Draft.^[18]^[19]

Year	Round	Pick	Overall	Player	NBA Club
1990	1	10	10	Rumeal Robinson	Atlanta Hawks
1990	1	13	13	Loy Vaught	Los Angeles Clippers
1990	1	16	16	Terry Mills	Milwaukee Bucks
1990	2	27	54	Sean Higgins	San Antonio Spurs
1993	2	6	33	Eric Riley	Dallas Mavericks

References

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1 2 "NCAA Tournament History". University of Michigan. 2010. p. 3.
1 2 "Division I Records" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. pp. 68–83. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
↑ "Division I Records" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. p. 87. Retrieved 2010-08-28.
↑ "All-Time Accolades". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. pp. 9–10.
↑ "Men's Basketball Statistic Archive Query Page". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
↑ "All-Time Accolades". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. pp. 4–7.
↑ "Big Ten Basketball 2009-10 Media Guide". CBS Interactive. p. 28. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
1 2 "Big Ten Basketball 2009-10 Media Guide". CBS Interactive. p. 34. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
1 2 "Big Ten Basketball 2009-10 Media Guide". CBS Interactive. p. 35. Retrieved 2010-09-02.
↑ "All-Time Records". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. p. 10. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
↑ "All-Time Records". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. p. 14. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
↑ "All-Time Records". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. p. 16. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
↑ "All-Time Records". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. p. 20. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
↑ "Postgame Notes: Ohio 65, #13 Michigan 60". MGoBlue. CBS Interactive. 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-04-14.
↑ "Division I Championship" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. p. 4. Retrieved 2010-08-29.
↑ "All-Time Records". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. p. 2. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
↑ "1990 NBA Draft". Basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
↑ "1993 NBA Draft". Basketball-reference.com. Retrieved 2014-04-25.

Michigan Wolverines men's basketball

Venues	Waterman Gymnasium (1908–1923) Fielding H. Yost Fieldhouse (1923–1967) Crisler Center (1967–present)

Rivalries	Duke Michigan State

Culture & lore	Maize Rage Fab Five (film) Scandal WWJ Michigan IMG Sports Network Fox Sports Detroit

People	Head coaches

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NCAA national championship in bold; NCAA Final Four appearances in italics

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1989–90 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team

Rankings

Team players drafted into the NBA

See also

References