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The Fab Five was the 1991 University of Michigan men's basketball team recruiting class that many consider one of the greatest recruiting classes of all time. [1] The class consisted of Detroit natives Chris Webber (#4) and Jalen Rose (#5), Chicago native Juwan Howard (#25), and two recruits from Texas : Plano 's Jimmy King (#24) and Austin 's ...
Due to the success of the Fab Five, athletic royalties increased from 2 million dollars in 1990 ($4.8 million today) to 4.4 million dollars ($9.9 million) in 1992. [17] The team, coached by Steve Fisher, is best remembered for the entry of a remarkably talented freshman class, known as the Fab Five, that would become the starting lineup:
As a collegiate athlete, he was a first-team All-American and led the Michigan Wolverines' 1991 incoming freshman class known as the Fab Five that reached the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship games as freshmen and sophomores.
For the first time in three decades, all five members of Fab Five reunited at Michigan. Ray Jackson, Jimmy King, Jalen Rose and Chris Webber sat side by side courtside, while Michigan Wolverines ...
Few teams in any sport have made such a lasting impact as the "Fab Five" Michigan teams did on basketball on all levels.
Michigan's Fab Five reunited and attended a basketball game on campus for the first time since they played three decades ago, watching the Wolverines beat Ohio State 73-65 on Monday. Chris Webber ...
In November 2003, Mitch Albom released his book Fab five: basketball, trash talk, the American dream chronicling the recruiting of and first two years of play of the Fab Five. [9] After Chris Webber left for the NBA, the team entered the season ranked fifth in the nation as it opened the season against number 13 Georgia Tech. [10]
Juwan Howard, played 1991–1993, "Fab Five" member, professional basketball player [174] Phil Hubbard, played 1975–79, won a gold medal as a member of US men's basketball team during the 1976 Summer Olympics; his number 35 was retired by the U-M men's basketball team in 1989 and was inducted to the U-M Hall of Honor in 1992 [175]