Fab Five, Steve Fisher - Michigan Basketball Playbook
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The Fab Five were the 1991 University of Michigan men's basketball team recruiting class that is considered by many to be one of the greatest recruiting classes of all time.[1] The class consisted of Detroit natives Chris Webber (#1) and Jalen Rose (#5), Chicago native Juwan Howard (#3), and two recruits from Texas: Plano's Jimmy King (#9) and Austin's Ray Jackson (#84).[2] The Fab Five were the first team in NCAA history to compete in the championship game with all-freshman starters.[3]
Their trend-setting but controversial antics on the court garnered much attention from the media.[4] They are the subjects of The Fab Five, which was the highest rated ESPN Films documentary ever produced,[5][6] were one of the featured teams in the two highest rated NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games ever played in terms of households (although not viewers),[7][8] and were a marketing juggernaut whose merchandise sales even dwarfed those of the national champion 1988–89 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.[9]
Four McDonald's All-Americans in a single recruiting class stood as an unbroken record until the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game included six members of the entering class for the 2013–14 Kentucky Wildcats team.[10] Four of the five were participants in the 1991 McDonald's All-American Game.[11] Four of the five members went on to play in the NBA.
At first, only three of the freshmen started for the 1991–92 Michigan men's basketball team. Although they all played when the season opened on December 2, 1991 against the University of Detroit, they did not all play at the same time until December 7 against Eastern Michigan and did not start regularly until February 9, 1992. In that first game starting together as a regular unit, the five freshmen scored all the team's points against Notre Dame.[12][13] They started as a unit in all but one of the remaining games for the season.[14] They reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both freshmen and sophomores. However, most of their wins and both of their Final Four appearances were vacated due to Webber accepting financial aids from Ed Martin that compromised his amateur status.
As students, they wore black athletic shoes, black athletic socks[15] and baggy basketball shorts, which were affront to the conventional college basketball attires at that the time.
Originally, the players rebelled against the moniker and attempted to give themselves the nickname Five Times' (written 5X's).[16]
In the elite eight round of the 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Michigan earned a rematch against a Jimmy Jackson-led Ohio State Buckeyes team that had beaten them twice during the regular season by double digits.[17] Michigan won the rematch as all but two Wolverines points were scored by the Fab Five.[18][19] Despite their talent, they never won a single championship, be it the Big Ten Regular Season Championship or NCAA Championship. They reached the NCAA championship game as freshmen in 1992 and again as sophomores in 1993. They lost to Duke 71–51 in the 1992 title game[20] and lost 77–71 to North Carolina in 1993,[21] a game which is remembered mostly for Chris Webber's costly "timeout", which resulted in a technical foul as Michigan had no timeouts remaining.
Webber earned second team All-Big Ten Conference recognition in 1992 and first team recognition in 1993. Howard an honorable mention in 1992, second team selection in 1993 and first team selection in 1994. Rose was a third team selection in 1993 and first team selection in 1994. King was an honorable mention selection in 1993 and 1994 as well as a third team selection in 1995. Jackson was an honorable mention selection in 1994 and second team selection in 1995.[22]
Four of the five members went on to play in the NBA. Ray Jackson was the only player of the five to never suit up in the NBA. Jimmy King played two seasons. Juwan Howard was a one-time NBA All-Star and won two NBA championship rings with the Miami Heat. Jalen Rose grew as a player between 1999 and 2003, leading the Indiana Pacers in scoring the year they reached the NBA Finals (2000). Chris Webber was an NBA All-Star and the leading scorer on the Sacramento Kings team that reached the Western Conference Finals (2002). As a member of the Miami Heat, Juwan Howard became the first and only member of the Fab Five to win an NBA Championship in 2012. He did not play in the Finals until the final minutes of Game 5, when Miami defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder to win the series 4–1.
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The Fab Five were the 1991 University of Michigan men's basketball team recruiting class that is considered by many to be one of the greatest recruiting classes of all time.[1] The class consisted of Detroit natives Chris Webber (#1) and Jalen Rose (#5), Chicago native Juwan Howard (#3), and two recruits from Texas: Plano's Jimmy King (#9) and Austin's Ray Jackson (#84).[2] The Fab Five were the first team in NCAA history to compete in the championship game with all-freshman starters.[3]
Their trend-setting but controversial antics on the court garnered much attention from the media.[4] They are the subjects of The Fab Five, which was the highest rated ESPN Films documentary ever produced,[5][6] were one of the featured teams in the two highest rated NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games ever played in terms of households (although not viewers),[7][8] and were a marketing juggernaut whose merchandise sales even dwarfed those of the national champion 1988–89 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.[9]
Four McDonald's All-Americans in a single recruiting class stood as an unbroken record until the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game included six members of the entering class for the 2013–14 Kentucky Wildcats team.[10] Four of the five were participants in the 1991 McDonald's All-American Game.[11] Four of the five members went on to play in the NBA.
At first, only three of the freshmen started for the 1991–92 Michigan men's basketball team. Although they all played when the season opened on December 2, 1991 against the University of Detroit, they did not all play at the same time until December 7 against Eastern Michigan and did not start regularly until February 9, 1992. In that first game starting together as a regular unit, the five freshmen scored all the team's points against Notre Dame.[12][13] They started as a unit in all but one of the remaining games for the season.[14] They reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as both freshmen and sophomores. However, most of their wins and both of their Final Four appearances were vacated due to Webber accepting financial aids from Ed Martin that compromised his amateur status.
As students, they wore black athletic shoes, black athletic socks[15] and baggy basketball shorts, which were affront to the conventional college basketball attires at that the time.
Originally, the players rebelled against the moniker and attempted to give themselves the nickname Five Times' (written 5X's).[16]
In the elite eight round of the 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Michigan earned a rematch against a Jimmy Jackson-led Ohio State Buckeyes team that had beaten them twice during the regular season by double digits.[17] Michigan won the rematch as all but two Wolverines points were scored by the Fab Five.[18][19] Despite their talent, they never won a single championship, be it the Big Ten Regular Season Championship or NCAA Championship. They reached the NCAA championship game as freshmen in 1992 and again as sophomores in 1993. They lost to Duke 71–51 in the 1992 title game[20] and lost 77–71 to North Carolina in 1993,[21] a game which is remembered mostly for Chris Webber's costly "timeout", which resulted in a technical foul as Michigan had no timeouts remaining.
Webber earned second team All-Big Ten Conference recognition in 1992 and first team recognition in 1993. Howard an honorable mention in 1992, second team selection in 1993 and first team selection in 1994. Rose was a third team selection in 1993 and first team selection in 1994. King was an honorable mention selection in 1993 and 1994 as well as a third team selection in 1995. Jackson was an honorable mention selection in 1994 and second team selection in 1995.[22]
Four of the five members went on to play in the NBA. Ray Jackson was the only player of the five to never suit up in the NBA. Jimmy King played two seasons. Juwan Howard was a one-time NBA All-Star and won two NBA championship rings with the Miami Heat. Jalen Rose grew as a player between 1999 and 2003, leading the Indiana Pacers in scoring the year they reached the NBA Finals (2000). Chris Webber was an NBA All-Star and the leading scorer on the Sacramento Kings team that reached the Western Conference Finals (2002). As a member of the Miami Heat, Juwan Howard became the first and only member of the Fab Five to win an NBA Championship in 2012. He did not play in the Finals until the final minutes of Game 5, when Miami defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder to win the series 4–1.
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