The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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❱ INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS I can't start talking about her, or else I'll start cry- ing, for real. She's just special. I'm happy she's here. She stayed. Those who stay will be champi- ons. She's persevered. She didn't play early in her career, and she's the leader of our team, she's the glue of our team. She makes Michigan go. She's a true Michigan woman." — Michigan women's basketball head coach Kim Barnes Arico on senior guard JORDAN HOBBS (via the Big Ten Network) PHOTO COURTESY MICHIGAN ATHLETICS PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL PHOTO BY LON HORWEDEL 5 Wolverines this century have been tabbed as the high school Mr. Bas- ketball in the state of Michigan, including two in a row in Phat Phat Brooks (Grand Rapids Catholic Central) in 2024 and current signee Trey McKenney (Orchard Lake St. Mary's) this year. In total, there have been 13 future Wolverines who collected the accolade since it started being handed out in 1981: Robert Henderson (1982), An- toine Joubert (1983), Glen Rice (1985), Terry Mills (1986), Michael Talley (1989), Chris Web- ber (1991), Willie Mitchell (1994), Robert Traylor (1995), Dion Harris (2003), Manny Harris (2007), Isaiah Livers (2017), Brooks and McKenney. 9.7 Rebounds per game and 301 overall boards for junior forward/center Danny Wolf, leading the Big Ten in both categories during the regular season. That marked the first time a Wolverine has paced the Big Ten in rebounding since Chris Webber in 1993 (10.1 per game). It's been a blessing. From the time I got to Michigan, I had a passion for football, and I wanted to help the team win a national championship. I also had a goal of coaching someday. I knew I was an older guy, and whatever happened with my football playing career was going to hap- pen. Afterwards, I wanted to become a coach, and that's why I came here — to learn from [former Michigan head] Coach [Jim] Harbaugh and [current head man] Coach [Sherrone] Moore. Eventually down the line, it worked out, and I became a coach here. I'm super blessed and excited for the opportunity." — Former Michigan quarterback and cur- rent assistant wide receivers coach JACK TUTTLE on joining the U-M coaching staff (via the "In The Trenches" podcast) When you're at Michigan, there's a standard of winning champion- ships. Right now, it's compete, beat your rivals, get to the Big Ten championship, win it, and get to the playoffs. That's going to be our goal every year here. And you have to get the recruits to that standard, you have to compete and work to that standard." — Head football coach Sherrone Moore 40 Times a Michigan men's basketball player has been named first-team All-Big Ten, with graduate center VLADISLAV GOLDIN earning the honor in 2024-25. Goldin is the Wolverines' first to receive such recognition since Hunter Dickinson in 2023 and is the program's eighth individual to do so this century, joining LaVell Blanchard (2003), Daniel Horton (2006), Manny Harris (2009), Trey Burke (2013), Tim Hardaway Jr. (2013), Nik Stauskas (2014) and Dickinson (2021, 2023). Goldin was elected by the conference's media in the first year of the 18-team Big Ten (expanded from 14). APRIL 2025 ❱ THE WOLVERINE 17 64.2 Field goal percentage for graduate center Vladislav Goldin, ranking first in the Big Ten among those with 200-plus attempts. Indiana center Ou- mar Ballo (63.5 percent), Purdue forward Trey Kaufman-Renn (61.1) and Penn State big man Yanic Konan Niederhauser (61.1) are the only others that meet that attempts minimum and are at 60-plus percent from the field.