JOHN BEILEIN CONJURES UP THIRD LOSING SEASON IN EIGHT YEARS AT MICHIGAN

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THE DETROIT NEWS' ROD BEARD GETS IT RIGHT

Reality is beginning to settle down upon the Michigan Basketball team. People are gradually starting to notice that they have a bogus "win" on their record. Their contest against Hillsdale should be considered an EXHIBITION GAME, the same as it was when Hillsdale played Michigan State four years ago. But UM officials continue to try to pull the wool over people's eyes by claiming it as a legitimate Division One victory.

Without the Hillsdale "win", Michigan is

below .500 this season, with a record of 15-16.

While a record below .500 does not technically disqualify any team from consideration for the National Invitational Tournament, the N.I.T. traditionally does not invite such teams. The Wolverine Brass are simply trying to trick their way into post-season play.

Just about all of the sports media are taking the duping in stride, writing every article with the bogus record listed at 16-16. We were pleased to note that Brendan Quinn of M-Live at least referenced the true fact of the matter in his post-game story on Friday. Now we have found another courageous journalist, willing to stand up to the Blue Beast and tell the truth.

ROD BEARD of the Detroit News

mentions in his article on Saturday that

Michigan does not actually have a "winning record" this season.

Congratulations to Rod Beard for following

the guidelines of his profession by telling the truth.

By contrast, Mark Synder of the Free Press continues to regurgitate the pap he is spoon-fed by his Yellow Masters, as he consistently refers to the UM season record as 16-16, ignoring the obvious scam that he is helping to perpetuate. We wish Mr. Snyder would get a clue and try to be real, like Brendan Quinn and Rod Beard. We will keep watching for him to do so.

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GREAT JOB BY BRENDAN QUINN OF M-LIVE.COM

David Brandon knew things could get tight this year for the Michigan men's basketball team. John Beilein told him he needed some help with the schedule this year, and Brandon cooked-up one more doozy of a deal before he self-terminated from UM.

Michigan took an exhibition game and turned it into

a real contest, right in front of everyone's eyes.

They hoped nobody would notice, and so far,

it has worked out real well.

Excepting us, of course, we definitely noticed. We saw the Hillsdale College game on the schedule and we called it like it was, an exhibition game against a Division Two school. We didn't carry that banner all through the season, as it wasn't clear how much of a difference it would make at the end of the year, if any. As it turns out, Michigan is banking on everybody believing in their little trick play in order to qualify for the National Invitational Tournament.

So we are beating the drum of reality, asking only for fairness in how the sports media and the major athletic institutions treat that school in Ann Arbor.

When Michigan State played Hillsdale College in 2011,

it was counted as an "exhibition game."

When Michigan played Hillsdale College in 2014,

it was counted as a "regular season game."

We don't like to call-out the individual sports reporters by name when they pay off their shadow-employer with media bias (although eventually, in this case, we will). But for now, let's recognize at least one reporter for acknowledging the unavoidable truth, that Hillsdale College is a Division Two school.

BRENDAN QUINN of M-Live made an accurate reference to the Hillsdale College game in his post-game article Friday. It's the first reference we've noticed in the sports media that describes that game accurately.

Congrats to Brendan Quinn for keeping it real*.

*Okay, he still listed the UM record as 16-16, rather than the true 15-16, but at least he noted the season record includes a "win" over a Division Two team.

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BEILEIN BEGINS BEGGING FOR BACKDOOR BID

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THE MICHIGAN BASKETBALL TEAM IS NOW .500 FOR THE SEASON WITH A 15-15 RECORD

Great job by the Wolverines today, they really let Illinois have it. Bully for UM. And "good luck" to them tomorrow against Wisconsin.

But they are only 15-15, not one game above .500 at 16-15.  The winning record that's being reported counts a Division Two opponent (Hillsdale College) on par with Northwestern and Kentucky. That's ridiculous, but the Michigan-loving sports media is all too quick to swallow whatever is handed out for lunch in Ann Arbor.

IF they beat Wisconsin on Friday, THEN they will be 16-15.

Why Does Michigan Keep Trying To Count The

Hillsdale College Basketball Game As

A Valid Division-One Victory?

Michigan Takes Losing Record Into

B1G Tourney, No Matter What They Say

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MICHIGAN TAKES LOSING RECORD INTO B1G TOURNEY, NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY

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TODAY IN chUMp HISTORY: MARCH 12, 1883

Wolverine Nation woke up this morning with the hope of seeing their men's basketball team win at least one game in the conference tourney, ostensibly so that their season record will remain at or above ".500". They consider themselves to be 15-15, but they are counting their exhibition game against Hillsdale College as an actual, regular-season victory, despite the FACT that Hillsdale is a Division Two school.

Oh well, those folks are always counting up numbers and throwing them around at people. The paragon of their numbers-games is the so-called "All-Time Wins Record" in football, a sport that used to be successful in Ann Arbor. In order to stay on top of that vaunted list of really old schools, they have to count up events that took place just after General George Armstrong Custer met up with Sitting Bull in a major upset defeat. Without those rugby games counted as "all-time wins", the UM numbers drop off considerably.

But you have to admit Michigan was very good at

playing rugby in the days before electricity!

But not necessarily in 1883, when the University of Michigan Rugby Club won their only game of the year on this date in history, March 12.

Wait, March? For "football"? Who plays football games in March? Nobody does, but back in the covered-wagon days, the rugby players had an exhibition scrimmage, reportedly attended by zero spectators. And they won the game, 40-5, over the "Detroit Independents". There is no recorded information available about the "Detroit Independents", leading us to believe that they were a very independent group, indeed! So independent that they really didn't exist beyond that field on that day.

The proto-wolverines badly needed a win,

as their "all-time wins record" at that point was 2-3-1.

So they lined up a group of bodies and got the win.

Hail to the victors, eh?

It would be neat to say that they won one for their Coach, but there was no coach of that team. They like to keep track of the "event" as a football win, but there was no tackling below the waist allowed, and no forward passes, either. Those five points by the nobodies was probably a field-goal, which was worth more than a touchdown on that day and for two decades to come.

The rest of their season was played eight months later, with three games between November 19 and November 27. They lost to Wesleyan, got pummeled by Yale, clipped by Harvard, and finished off by Stevens Institute. So they were 1-4, with only that one memorable triumph over the motor city nobodies.

Of course, this was before there was a "Motor City", because there were no automobiles. No cars, no coach, no fans, not really football at all. But the Michigan faithful ardently believe that it was a football game, and a victory, no less. Um, okay, whatever.

Keep this one in mind the next time you see one of those yellow shirts with the silly "all-time wins" claim.

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MSU BASKETBALL PROGRAMS LEAD B1G IN REGULAR SEASON WINS OVER LAST 8 SEASONS

The regular season of college basketball is over, and we can take at look now at the updated win-loss totals in B1G Conference play over the past several seasons. The list below includes regular season games played during the last eight seasons for both men's and women's basketball.

We started to look back at the combined program totals last year as a means of dealing with the "six-out-of-eight" crowd, those Michigan fans who were doing verbal back-flips at every opportunity to celebrate their team's short series of close wins over Michigan State. We didn't know what we would find when we started, but we have learned that MSU has been on top of the league in basketball for quite some time.

The first time-span we calculated was three years, as that was the exact span over which UM fans were frothing at the mouth. That first list is here. We continued the process until, quite frankly, it looked like the Spartan programs were not the "winningest", and we stopped there. (Interestingly, the span of dominance coincides exactly with the hiring of Suzy Merchant to coach the women's team.) Links for the four-year through seven-year time-frame are at the bottom of this post.

So it hasn't been a great year for Spartan Basketball, on either side of the ledger, but Michigan State remains atop the list. The Men's and Women's Basketball programs at MSU have won more games (combined) than any other school in the conference over the past eight years.

B1G Basketball Regular Season Records: 2008-2015

1. 189-91    MICHIGAN STATE*****
2. 186-94    OHIO STATE******
3. 166-114   PURDUE*
4. 155-125   WISCONSIN***
5. 147-133   IOWA
6. 141-139   MICHIGAN**
7. 124-156   MINNESOTA
8. 117-163   PENN STATE***
9. 109-171   ILLINOIS
10. 106-174   INDIANA
11.   90-190  NORTHWESTERN

• 32-4      MARYLAND (one season)
• 69-69    NEBRASKA (four seasons)
• 14-22    RUTGERS (one season)

*conference championships

FOUR YEAR TOTALS HERE

FIVE YEAR TOTALS HERE

SIX YEAR TOTALS HERE

SEVEN YEAR TOTALS HERE

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HERE'S THE REASON WHY UM BASKETBALL TEAMS ARE ALWAYS "YOUNG" UNDER BEILEIN

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MORE BIAS FROM THE DETROIT "BLUE WALL"

Social change is slow, and such is the case with the in-bred MEDIA BIAS of the sports media, most notably the Detroit sports media. Have you noticed how much love they have for the University of Michigan? Many of us have seen that syndrome play out for decades, in so many places and in so many ways.

Today we bring you a current example, an article about Suzy Merchant and the Michigan State University Women's Basketball team. The subject of this piece could not be any more clear. The authors and editors would have to know, on a sentence-by-sentence level, that the article is about MSU, not UM.

Here is a screen-shot of the top of the article. Read the first sentence:

Detroit Free Press calls MSU "Michigan" (again)

Did you catch the reference to the "Michigan women's basketball team"? Look again below where it is highlighted:

This Article Came One Day After MSU Beat UM

The folks behind this article will surely say it was an "error", and that "mistakes" like this are unavoidable, and that I must be "paranoid" to see any men behind the curtain.

But I submit that we see this "mistake"

so much more often than it's flip-side,

both in print and on radio and television,

from regional reporters to national coverage.

I have grown up watching this "mistake" happen, and it shows up about 25 times more often than it's flip-side. How often have you heard or seen UM referred to as MSU?

(crickets)

UPDATE TO ORIGINAL STORY:  The article shown above still appears on freep.com with the "typo" intact as of 4:00 p.m. on April 8. It's been "wrong" for THIRTY-FOUR DAYS. Here is the link.

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MICHIGAN BASKETBALL OVERTIME RECORD STARTING TO BALANCE OUT UNDER BEILEIN

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MICHIGAN CONFIRMS "ELITE PROGRAM" STATUS WITH HOME-COURT THRASHING OF RUTGERS ON "REDSHIRT-JUNIOR DAY"

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ANOTHER "SENIOR DAY" WITHOUT SENIORS FOR JOHN BEILEIN AND MICHIGAN BASKETBALL

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JIM HARBAUGH TO BE GRANTED AN AUDIENCE WITH THE POPE

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WHY DOES MICHIGAN KEEP TRYING TO COUNT THE HILLSDALE COLLEGE BASKETBALL GAME AS A VALID DIVISION-ONE VICTORY?

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