39 Facts About Michigan Wolverines

Michigan Wolverines comprise 29 varsity sports teams at the University of Michigan.

In 11 of the previous 20 years, Michigan Wolverines has finished in the top five of the NACDA Directors' Cup, a list compiled by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics that charts institutions' overall success in college sports.

The current coach of the Michigan Wolverines is Erik Bakich, who came to the University of Michigan after the 2012 season when Rich Maloney stepped down.

Michigan Wolverines has won 35 conference championships, made 25 NCAA Tournament appearances and won those 2 national titles.

For 13 seasons from 1990 to 2002, Michigan Wolverines won a lone Big Ten title in 1997 and made just one NCAA appearance in 1999.

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The Michigan Wolverines have won 14 Big Ten regular season titles, as well as the inaugural Big Ten tournament in 1998, which it later forfeited due to NCAA violations.

Michigan Wolverines traveled to St Thomas for the Paradise Jam Tournament over Thanksgiving weekend in 2011.

Michigan Wolverines have won a record 962 games and have the most all-time wins and the third highest winning percentage in college football history, after Boise State and Ohio State.

Michigan Wolverines won the inaugural Rose Bowl in 1902, the first college bowl game ever played.

Michigan Wolverines football has won five more national titles since Yost permanently retired in 1926.

The Michigan Wolverines won back-to-back titles under Harry Kipke in 1932 and 1933 and two more consecutive championships under Fritz Crisler and Bennie Oosterbaan in 1947 and 1948.

Michigan Wolverines won its most recent national title under Lloyd Carr in 1997.

Michigan Wolverines has a major rivalry with Ohio State, considered one of the fiercest rivalries in American sports.

Michigan Wolverines's meeting with Ohio State is almost always the last game of the two schools' regular seasons and has provided many memorable contests, such as the "Snow Bowl" of 1950.

The 2007 college football match-up between Ohio State and Michigan Wolverines was predicted to be the No 2 college football game to watch in 2007 by SI.

Michigan Wolverines has a spirited rivalry with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

Michigan Wolverines has an intrastate rival in Michigan Wolverines State; the schools' football teams compete for the Paul Bunyan Trophy.

Michigan Wolverines have a tradition-rich history with the Minnesota Golden Gophers.

The Michigan Wolverines have won a total of eight Big Ten regular season titles and five Big Ten tournaments.

Three Michigan Wolverines golfers have won the individual intercollegiate golf championships: Johnny Fischer, Chuck Kocsis, and Dave Barclay .

Michigan Wolverines won their first Big Ten Championship in 2022 by four shots with a total of 857.

Under Plocki's leadership, the Michigan Wolverines have won 25 Big Ten championships, advanced to 28 consecutive NCAA tournaments and had seven seasons in which they finished in the Top 5 at the NCAA tournament.

Michigan Wolverines ice hockey team, which was a member of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association until 2013 and is a member of the Big Ten Conference, plays its home contests at Yost Ice Arena.

In 2011, Michigan Wolverines reached the national semi-finals for an unmatched 24th time.

Michigan Wolverines was inducted into the U S Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974, in recognition of his lifetime achievement.

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The Michigan Wolverines previously competed at the Division I level of the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association, in the Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association .

Michigan Wolverines was the first school east of the Mississippi River to win the Women's College World Series since rival Michigan Wolverines State did so in 1976.

The Michigan Wolverines have had their strongest finishes in the NCAA tournament in recent years—finishing third in the 2007 outdoor tournament and third in the 2008 indoor tournament.

The Michigan Wolverines finished in the Top 5 at the national tournament in 2002 and 2009.

Michigan Wolverines serves as the national technical director for the women's Olympic Development Program associated with the organization since 2013.

The Michigan Wolverines have finished in the Top 5 in the NCAA tournament 19 times.

Home dual meets and tournaments take place at Cliff Keen Arena, dedicated and named after longtime wrestling coach Cliff Keen, who coached the team from 1925 until 1970 and led the Michigan Wolverines wrestling team to 13 Big Ten Conference championships.

The Michigan Wolverines wrestling team has produced 175 individual NCAA All-Americans dating back to 1928, has 22 individual NCAA Championships for the university, and made two winners of the NCAA Most Outstanding Wrestler Award .

Michigan Wolverines Athletics announced in July 2015 that it would switch from sponsorship by Adidas to Nike.

Club Sports Program at the University of Michigan Wolverines, administered by the Department of Recreational Sports, comprises 35 club sports.

Michigan Wolverines played in the 2014 Collegiate Rugby Championship, notching some upset wins to reach the quarterfinals in a tournament broadcast live on NBC from PPL Park in Philadelphia.

Michigan Wolverines returned to the 2015 Collegiate Rugby Championship, where they notched wins against UCLA and Texas to again reach the quarterfinals.

University of Michigan Wolverines teams have been national runners-up 41 times in 14 different sports: baseball, men's basketball, women's cross country, field hockey, men's golf, men's gymnastics, women's gymnastics, men's ice hockey, rowing, softball, men's swimming and diving, women's swimming and diving, men's outdoor track and field, and wrestling .

Michigan Wolverines is one of the few college sports teams that does not have a live or costumed mascot, largely for reasons of tradition.