Michigan Mustangs win adidas Super 64 in Las Vegas
By Patrick Hayes Around the Midwest, plenty of people know about all of the talent in the class of 2013 in Michigan high school basketball. If the rest of the country wasn’t aware, the Michigan...
View ArticleFlint native Javontae Hawkins ‘better than advertised’ so far at South Florida
By Patrick Hayes Javontae Hawkins, a former standout at Beecher and Powers Catholic and one of the top players to come out of the Flint area in years, is getting ready for his freshman season at South...
View ArticleRoy Devyn Marble carving out his own niche at Iowa
By Patrick Hayes Considering he’s named after one of the greatest basketball players in the history of the University of Iowa, former Beecher standout Roy Marble, choosing to play for the Hawkeyes was...
View ArticleFormer Hawkeye Roy Marble helped Flint’s Monte Morris decide on Iowa State
By Patrick Hayes Ordinarily, an Iowa alum would be an unlikely source to help recruit a player to Iowa State. But Hawkeyes legend Roy Marble, a Beecher basketball great, is part of a great 1980s...
View Article2012-13 Flint area high school basketball preview
In our college basketball previews last month, we were able to take a close-up look at every college team in the state. Obviously, with mainly a staff of one right now, that same strategy won’t work...
View Article2013 Michigan Mr. Basketball Rankings: Preseason edition
By Patrick Hayes The 2013 senior class in Michigan is one of the best in recent memory — so strong, in fact, that it lost two top sure Division I recruits, Cha Cha Tucker and Richie Lewis, to prep...
View ArticleBeecher’s Monte Morris tries to make it four Breslin Center trips in four years
By Patrick Hayes As a freshman, Beecher‘s Monte Morris was the best player on a team that made the state semifinals. As a sophomore, his team once again made the state semis and he was the Class C...
View ArticleGame Balls Week 1: Our weekly high school hoops honor roll
Welcome to a new weekly feature at BallinMichigan. Every Sunday, we’ll do this ‘honor roll’ post highlighting some of the top high school performances from around the state during the previous week. We...
View ArticleHoop Convos: John Girdwood discusses ‘Our Dreams’ film
There are few things better than getting philosophical about the game of basketball. In ‘Hoop Convos,’BallinMichigan will do just that, engaging in (hopefully) meaningful, free-flowing conversations...
View ArticleMr. Basketball case building for Beecher’s Monte Morris
By Patrick Hayes Iowa State-bound Beecher senior Monte Morris is far from a shoe-in to win the Michigan Mr. Basketball Award this season, but he’s definitely established himself as a player who should...
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