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         This week marks one month  since Juwan Howard's departure, and Dusty May and the Wolverines have had their names around ten guys going into the next dead period (May 16-24). While the Wolverines' top five scorers depart, seven players have officially committed to Ann Arbor for the 2024-2025 season. This article will highlight the seven athletes that May's staff has signed this offseason.    On Friday, April 13, Justin Pippen, son of former NBA legend Scottie Pippen, went on an official visit to Ann Arbor. 6 days later, he announced his commitment to the Wolverines via 247 Sports. The four-star 6'3, 180lbs combo guard from Sierra Canyon High School was ranked 101 in the 247 Composite. Pippen has a solid foundation to work with, and we will only see him improve while enrolled at Michigan.     Six days later, Rubin Jones committed to Ann Arbor. This 6'5, 190-lb graduate transfer is a stat sheet stuffer, having averag...

  Written By: Spencer Teman, of Swish Tribune The average person would think that since there is the number ten in the Big Ten, there are ten teams in the conference. However, that person would be wrong because coming in 2024, the Big Ten will expand to 18 different schools in its conference.  Up until 2014, the Big Ten, still not living up to its name, had 12 schools in the conference until Maryland and Rutgers joined the Big Ten expanding the conference to 14 schools. Before the expansion, the conference was dominantly filled with teams from the midwest with the exception of Penn State.  Fast forward almost a decade and the Big Ten is on the verge of another major expansion, this time adding four schools from the Pac-12 conference. These four schools are as follows: Oregon, Washington, UCLA, and USC. Now a conference which was a decade ago purely made up of schools from the midwest has expanded to schools from both the east and west coast of the United States.  Con...

  Written By: Sage Rubin, of Swish Tribune Nine days ago Colorado delivered the Pac-12 a crushing blow by their board of trustees voting to depart the Pac for the Big 12 and while Colorado isn’t new to the Big 12 as over a decade ago they left the Big 12 for the pac, this time the conference is filled with completely different teams than there were in 2011.  While shifting conferences is very much a big deal, this comes as no surprise to many because of the Pac-12’s ongoing negotiations with media rights. Starting last year, the Pac-12’s viability was questioned when USC and UCLA made the shocking move to the Big Ten. This movement couldn’t have happened at a worse time because the Pac was just about to begin negotiations with the networks. Losing the two biggest brands in the conference led many to wonder who is next and we just found out a year later. For Colorado, this has been a program altering offseason in which the program had just introduced NFL hall of famer, Deion Sa...

              Written By: Spencer Teman, of Swish Tribune                In what might have been the craziest NCAA men's basketball tournament we have ever seen, the final four gets even crazier. Out of twenty million brackets created throughout the world, only 37 of them correctly predicted the teams in this year's Final Four.             This is the first time since the 1970s where no number 1 seeds made the Elite Eight and none will be participating in the final 3 games. To add to the chaos, the highest seed in the Final Four is the Connecticut Huskies coming in at a number 4 seed.             Anything is possible and the tournament has certainly proved that this year, but right now the favorite to take home the trophy is the Huskies from Connecticut. They have absolutely dominated every team in t...

                                                              Written By: Avary Bourbin of Swish Tribune As we all know, March Madness is coming around the corner. Everyone will soon be scrambling to pick the perfect bracket for the 2023 NCAA Men’s Tournament. Most people will be choosing many of the household names including Houston, Alabama, and Kansas to make deep runs this March. But in order to create that perfect bracket, you have to pick the right spot for that major upset. These are games that can make or break one's bracket. Even the top seeded teams are destined to make early first-round exits. Although it’s rare for a 16-seeded team to defeat a 1-seeded team, or a 15-seeded team to beat a 2-seeded team, it has still happened many times.    For instance, just last year we saw a team fr...

                  Written by: Spencer Teman, of Swish Tribune                              The best month of the year is finally here! Soon we will be able to compete with our friends by filling brackets to predict who will take home the NCAA championship. March is truly just one shining moment.             Not only is the biggest college tournament going on, but MLB spring training is also underway and Opening Day kicks off at the end of the month as well. The NHL and NBA are both coming down to the end of their seasons where teams are still fighting for postseason spots.             Whether you follow college basketball or not, everyone is into the NCAA tournament. There is just a certain vibe surrounding this tournament that makes it better than every other postseason...