page_title: Michigan Wolverines men's basketball
section_title: Fab Five
hierarchical_section_title: Michigan Wolverines men's basketball / Fab Five
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a photo of the Fab Five during their game in Ann Arbor, MI against Michigan State their sophomore year. From left to right, Jimmy King (24), Jalen Rose (5), Chris Webber (4), Ray Jackson (21), Juwan Howard (25). I believe in the background is Mike Peplowski and Shawn Respert (24). My friend and I camped out for like 24 hours in the freezing cold to sit close to mid court during this amazing game. I believe, though, according to UofM history, this game never existed, due to the Chris Webber scandal. They have yet to erase my memory, though.
context_page_description: The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team is the intercollegiate men's basketball program representing the University of Michigan. The school competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The Wolverines play home basketball games at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Michigan has won one NCAA Championship as well as two National Invitation Tournaments, 14 Big Ten Conference titles and two Big Ten Tournament titles. In addition, it has won an NIT title and won a Big Ten Tournament that were vacated due to NCAA sanctions. The team is coached by Juwan Howard.
  Michigan has had 31 All-Americans, selected 44 times. Eight of these have been consensus All-Americans, which are Cazzie Russell, Rickey Green, Gary Grant, Chris Webber, Trey Burke, as well as Harry Kipke, Richard Doyle and Bennie Oosterbaan who were retroactively selected by the Helms Foundation. Twelve All-Americans have been at least two-time honorees. Russell was the only three-time All-American.
  Michigan basketball players have been successful in professional basketball.
context_section_description: The Fab Five, the 1991 recruiting class of five freshman starters, were Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson. They were notable for having gone to the championship game of the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament as freshmen and sophomores, for having started the trend of wearing baggy gym shorts, which was later popularized by Michael Jordan, and for wearing black athletic socks. Due to the Ed Martin scandal, the records from their 1992 Final Four appearance and the entire following season have been forfeited. Although Webber was the only member of the Fab Five officially implicated with the scandal, the reputation of the whole group has been tarnished. Webber (1993), Howard (1994) and Rose (1992, 1994) were college basketball All-Americans. and both King (1995 3rd team and 1993 & 1994 honorable mention) and Jackson (1995 2nd team & 1994 honorable mention) achieved All-Big Ten honors. All but Jackson played in the NBA. They were the subject of Mitch Albom's book entitled Fab Five: Basketball, Trash Talk, the American Dream, which at one point was under development by Fox Television as a made-for-television movie. In March 2011 ESPN broadcast a documentary, Fab Five, that was the network's highest-rated in its history.
caption: The Fab Five during their sophomore year, Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan. From left to right, Jimmy King, Jalen Rose, Chris Webber, Ray Jackson, Juwan Howard.
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