Fab 5 Holds Kansas to 19 Rebounds - Advances to Title Vs. UConn 2022

Early in this "The Fab Five" documentary on the ESPN documentary trailer Michigan's team of all starting freshman is referred to as "5 Muhammad Ali's, and this great 8-minute film documents how Juwan Howard put together the team and Ali hosted them all on the way to the NCAA championship.

They looked like Ali in our 2nd all-time National Semifinal. The future NBA trio of Chris Webber, Juwan Howard and Eric Riley set a Value Add Basketball Game record by dominating the Boards 38-19 - the first time a team has been held below 20 rebounds in 303 games between all-time great men's team. Howard and Webber combined for 21 rebounds to out rebound the entire Kansas team by 2 for the overpowering 82-68 win.

The overpowering performance by the 1993 Michigan team was enough to dominate the 2022 national champions from Kansas, and now they will face the 2023 national champions in UConn as just a 3-point underdog in our 3rd title game.

The game was tied 34-34 early in the second half, but then the Wolverines went on a roll capped by Webber pulling up from outside for two consecutive 3-pointers to make it 59-45, and Michigan never looked back.

While certainly all national champions are great teams, Kansas won their title in a very balanced 2022 season with no dominant teams - and in our game we actually calculated them as a 7-point underdog against Michigan, but they could not keep it that close as Jalen Wilson fouled out trying to guard Webber, who scored 21 points and grabbed 9 rebounds, while Juwan Howard added 20 and 12.

If Webber is the MVP of this tournament, it may be that Kansas' Remy Martin is the best 6th man, as he put up another incredible game off the bench with 14 points including a couple of 3-pointers that kept it close for a while.

 

Pos	Kansas 2022	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Hts	Season Actual
1-PG	Dajuan Harris	12	2	3	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'1	5.4 Pts, 1.4 Reb, 4.2 Ast
2-SG	Christian Braun	10	0	3	4	5	2	0	2	1	NBA,6'6	14.1 Pts, 6.5 Reb, 2.8 Ast
3-SF	Ochai Agbaji	7	0	2	3	3	7	0	1	3	NBA,6'5	18.8 Pts, 5.1 Reb, 1.6 Ast
4-PF	Jalen Wilson	8	0	4	0	0	1	0	0	5	NBA,6'8	11.1 Pts, 7.4 Reb, 1.8 Ast
5-C	David McCormack	6	0	3	0	0	3	2	4	1	6'10	10.6 Pts, 7.0 Reb, 0.9 Ast
1-PG	Joseph Yesufu	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'0	2.1 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 1.0 Ast
2-SG	Remy Martin	14	2	4	0	0	2	0	0	1	6'0	8.6 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 2.5 Ast
3-SF	Jalen Coleman-Lands	5	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'4	3.7 Pts, 0.7 Reb, 0.3 Ast
4-PF	Zach Clemence	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	6'10	2.1 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 0.4 Ast
5-C	Mitch Lightfoot	2	0	1	0	0	2	0	1	1	6'8	4.6 Pts, 2.8 Reb, 0.4 Ast
	14 Turnovers	68	5	21	7	8	19	2	7	14
Pos	Michigan 1993	Pts	3pt	2pt	FT	Att	Reb	Stl	Blk	Fl	Hts	Season Actual
1-PG	Jimmy King	14	2	4	0	0	3	3	1	1	NBA,6'2	10.8 Pts, 4.4 Reb, 3.1 Ast
2-SG	Jalen Rose	16	2	5	0	0	6	2	1	3	NBA,6'3	15.4 Pts, 4.2 Reb, 3.9 Ast
3-SF	Ray Jackson	5	0	2	1	2	4	0	0	3	6'3	9.0 Pts, 4.1 Reb, 2.2 Ast
4-PF	Chris Webber	21	3	4	4	7	9	1	4	1	NBA,6'7	19.2 Pts, 10.1 Reb, 2.5 Ast
5-C	Juwan Howard	20	0	9	2	2	12	2	0	2	NBA,6'8	14.6 Pts, 7.4 Reb, 1.9 Ast
3-SF	Rob Pelinka	2	0	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	6'1	4.3 Pts, 2.1 Reb, 1.0 Ast
5-C	Eric Riley	4	0	1	2	2	3	0	1	1	NBA,7'0	5.6 Pts, 4.8 Reb, 0.4 Ast
	11 Turnovers	82	7	26	9	13	38	8	7	12