The Wolverine: Covering University of Michigan Football and Sports
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INSIDE MICHIGAN ATHLETICS 8 Consecutive Big Ten championships for the U-M softball program, includ- ing this year's triumph — the longest active streak at Michigan. 18 The Michigan basketball team's pre- season rank for 2015-16 when com- bining Yahoo Sports' (No. 17) and CBSSports.com's (No. 19) updated forecasts. 28 Straight victories for the women's tennis team in Big Ten regular-season matches (through the end of the reg- ular season), leaving them three shy of the program re- cord (2009-12), a feat they could match next season. 60 R B I fo r s o p h o m o re C ARMEN BENEDET TI in 50 games through May 10, the most since f o r m e r Wo l v e r i n e Coley Crank (65 RBI) in 2010. 570 Assists accumu- lated by the wom- en's basketball t e a m i n 2014-15, s e t - ting a single-season program record. 90.7 Percentage of scoring from last sea- son's men's basketball team slated to return in 2015-16 with the news that Caris LeVert will be back for his senior year. 1,605 Passing yards accumulated by for- mer Michigan quarterbacks in the history of the Super Bowl, ranking U-M alumni second all time behind Notre Dame (1,736 yards) according to the April 27 issue of Sports Illustrated. Michigan w a s a l s o f i f t h i n re c e i v i n g y a r d s ( 4 9 6 ) and fourth in games played (76). 60,000 Announced attendance at Michigan's spring game, ranking the Wolverines sev- enth nationally according to SBNation.com. Ohio State had 99,391 to rank first, followed by Nebraska (76,881), Penn State (68,000), Alabama ( 6 5 , 1 7 5 ) , Te n n e s s e e (63,016) and Auburn (62,143). PHOTO BY LARRY BLANKENSHIP