in the Big Ten Conference (having been co-champions in the previous
year's regular season), ended the 2013 NCAA Tournament as National
Runner-Up, and reached the top of the AP Poll for the first time in 20
years. Led by head coach John Beilein and playing their home games at
the University of Michigan's Crisler Center for the 46th consecutive
year, the Wolverines had the best start in school history by winning
their first 16 games, and 19 of their first 20. The team ended with a
31–8 win–loss record, its most wins in 20 seasons. The Wolverines
had lost 2011–12 captains Zack Novak and Stu Douglass to graduation.
The incoming class of Mitch McGary, Glenn Robinson III and Nik Stauskas
was ranked among the best in the nation. The team was led by national
player of the year Trey Burke (pictured) and All-Conference honorees Tim
Hardaway, Jr., Robinson, and Jordan Morgan. Burke was the second
National Player of the Year and fifth first-team consensus All-American
in Michigan basketball history. At the 2013 NBA draft, Burke and
Hardaway became Michigan's first pair of first-round draft choices since
1994.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_Michigan_Wolverines_men%27s_basketball_team>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
217:
Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated at a roadside near
Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla>
876:
Forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the army of the
Saffarid amir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing Ya'qub to halt his advance into
what is now Iraq.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dayr_al-%27Aqul>
1864:
American Civil War: A decisive Confederate victory in the
Battle of Mansfield stopped the advance of the Union Army's Red River
Campaign.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mansfield>
1904:
France and the United Kingdom signed the entente cordiale,
agreeing to a peaceful coexistence after centuries of intermittent
conflict.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entente_cordiale>
2008:
On board Soyuz TMA-12, Yi So-Yeon became the first Korean
person, and second Asian woman, to go into space.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_So-Yeon>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
cross swords:
(idiomatic) To quarrel or argue with someone, to have a dispute with
someone.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cross_swords>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Lives of great men all remind us greatness takes no easy way. All
the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.
--Yip Harburg
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yip_Harburg>
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