On Thursday (Dec. 23), I attended my first men's basketball game of this year's season. Michigan played Bradley. Michigan won! The arena was almost full. It was a great game, the crowd had fun and almost everyone stayed to the end. The new scoreboards are wonderful and the seating is, ...
When Mark Hughes walked into Crisler Arena on Saturday, one thing stood out. "It's really bright in here," said a laughing Hughes, a captain on Michigan basketball's 1989 national championship squad. Hughes, along with dozens of other former Michigan basketball standouts, caught a glimpse of Crisler Arena's facelift for the ...
The Michigan men's and women's basketball programs hosted an open house on Friday to show off its newly renovated Crisler Arena. AnnArbor.com photographer Melanie Maxwell was there to capture some images.
For the better part of the summer, the Michigan basketball team wandered Ann Arbor without a home. Dressing in the Michigan baseball locker room, lifting weights with the wrestling team and playing pickup games anywhere from the Michigan Intramural Sports Building to Concordia University.
Michigan basketball fans can catch a glimpse of the newly renovated Crisler Arena on Friday when the university hosts a free three-hour open house. The open house, which runs from 5-8 p.m. and is open to the public, will allow fans to see the arena's new high-definition scoreboard and the ...
The Michigan basketball team got its first look at the nearly-completed first phase of Crisler Arena renovations Tuesday. According to a release on MGoBlue.com, Wolverines head coach John Beilein and players held their first workout in the arena Tuesday following a team meeting.
Michigan basketball coach John Beilein sits in his makeshift basketball office each day surrounded by boxes, loose papers, cramped hallways and the sound of construction. He uses a piece of cardboard as a curtain to block out the sun -- "You should have seen the glare before," he notes -- ...
Designers of the Crisler Arena renovation project want the building to glow on game nights no matter how the University of Michigan’s basketball teams are playing. The university’s Board of Regents unanimously approved the designs for the $52 million second phase of renovations at their meeting Thursday. Among the planned ...
CHICAGO — As the first phase of Crisler Arena renovations begins to take shape this summer, Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon is starting to push through the designs for the second phase. On Thursday, Brandon will present a $52 million plan to the University of Michigan board of regents in ...
Schematic designs of the $52 million second phase of the renovation of Crisler Arena are up for approval Thursday when the University of Michigan regents meet in Dearborn.
The coach gives you a nod and the crowd, which has been chanting your name, roars as you rip off your warmup pants on the way to the scorer's table at Crisler Arena. That fantasy is now available for sale on eBay. But you'll have to put the scorer's table ...
The Michigan athletic department released renderings of new scoreboards planned for (from left) Michigan Stadium, Crisler Arena and Yost Ice Arena. Prepare for some big-screen TV envy. Michigan Stadium's new video screens will be 85 feet wide, or 40-percent larger than the previous screens that were removed in March. The ...
Updated at 9:35 a.m. For years, the Michigan basketball team's facilities has lagged behind its biggest rivals. As Ohio State, Michigan State, Louisville and other top programs around the country built new arenas, refurbished old ones and added lavish practice facilities on par with professional teams, Michigan suited up in ...
Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon is one of Twitter’s newest members (@DaveBrandonAD) and in one of his first 140-character bursts, he mentioned ("It's going to be so GREAT!") his excitement of the renovations to Crisler Arena. While still in the planning stages and with the Player Development Center under construction, ...
New seats and a redesigned configuration - including a moved student section - are among schematic design changes approved for the University of Michigan's Crisler Arena, it was decided at the U-M Board of Regents meeting Thursday.
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