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NCAA Final Four Champion > Michigan > 1989 |
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1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 64 Finals Site Kingdome Seattle, Washington Champions Michigan (1st title) Runner-Up Seton Hall (1st title game) Semifinalists Duke (7th Final Four) Illinois (4th Final Four) Winning Coach Steve Fisher (1st title) MOP Glen Rice Michigan Attendance 613,242 Top scorer Glen Rice Michigan (184 points) |
The 1989 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing
in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball. It began on March 16, 1989, and ended with the championship
game on April 3 in Seattle, Washington. A total of 63 games were played. Michigan, coached by Steve Fisher, won the national title with a 80-79 overtime victory in the final game over Seton Hall, coached by P.J. Carlesimo. Glen Rice of Michigan was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Just prior to the start of this tournament, Michigan coach Bill Frieder, a Michigan alumnus, had announced that he would accept the head coaching position at Arizona State University at the end of the season. Michigan athletic director Bo Schembechler promptly fired Frieder and appointed top assistant Fisher as interim coach; stating, famously and ironically, that "a Michigan man is going to coach Michigan." |
Other notable players who played for Michigan include Daniel Horton, Bernard Robinson,
Gary Grant, Terry Mills, Glen Rice, Jalen Rose, Rumeal Robinson, Jamal Crawford,
Juwan Howard, Chris Webber, Cazzie Russell, and Mark Hughes. During the 1990s, the program became involved in a scandal involving payments from a booster named Ed Martin to four players Chris Webber, Maurice Taylor, Robert Traylor, and Louis Bullock. The scandal ultimately resulted in four years' probation and a self-imposed ban from postseason play in the 2002-03 season. |
The men's basketball team plays its games at Crisler Arena. The Wolverines have won
12 Big Ten regular-season conference titles, as well as the inaugural Big Ten
Tournament in 1998, which it later forfeited due to NCAA violations. The team
has appeared in the NCAA Final Four on six occasions (1964, 1965, 1976, 1989,
1992* and 1993*) and won the national championship in 1989 under Steve Fisher.
The program later forfeited its 1992 and 1993 Final Four appearances due to NCAA
violations. |
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UM also voluntarily forfeited regular season games and "vacated" NCAA tournament
games from selected past seasons. Vacating the results of 114 games won while
the four players were eligible, including the 1992 and 1993 Final Fours, the entire
1992-93 season, and all seasons from fall 1995 through spring 1999. Since
the scandal Michigan basketball has posted a 144-131 record and has not made the
NCAA tournament. In April 2007, the university announced that its new head coach will be John Beilein. The 2007 recruiting class commits include Manny Harris, Kelvin Grady and Martell Webb. |
