Play Date With the Wolverines
Seemingly lost amid the hoopla surrounding the football team's scheduled trip to Michigan next season was the fact that the basketball team soon will be playing the Wolverines, too.
Curious, though, the way it was divulged.
While the Utes announced that they are still finalizing details of a home-and-home series with Michigan in 2009-10 and 2010-11, the Wolverines offered no such qualifier. Athletic director Bill Martin definitively said it was a "great opportunity to get ... a strong men's basketball team on our future schedules."
Whatever the wording, though, it appears the deal is done.
The Utes are expected to play the Wolverines at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor in 2009-10, with the Wolverines returning the favor in 2010-11. Of course, who knows who will be starring for either team, by that point?
What we do know is that the Wolverines were 22-13 last season but only 8-8 in the Big Ten Conference in the first year for coach John Beilein -- the former West Virginia coach who went 104-60 in five years in Morgantown before replacing UM's Tommy Amaker.
Curious, though, the way it was divulged.
While the Utes announced that they are still finalizing details of a home-and-home series with Michigan in 2009-10 and 2010-11, the Wolverines offered no such qualifier. Athletic director Bill Martin definitively said it was a "great opportunity to get ... a strong men's basketball team on our future schedules."
Whatever the wording, though, it appears the deal is done.
The Utes are expected to play the Wolverines at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor in 2009-10, with the Wolverines returning the favor in 2010-11. Of course, who knows who will be starring for either team, by that point?
What we do know is that the Wolverines were 22-13 last season but only 8-8 in the Big Ten Conference in the first year for coach John Beilein -- the former West Virginia coach who went 104-60 in five years in Morgantown before replacing UM's Tommy Amaker.
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