Michigan fab 5 biography

Men's basketball team of the University of Michigan

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 Ray Jackson (#21).^[2] The Fab Five were the first team in NCAA history to compete in the championship game with all-freshman starters.^[3]

Their trend-setting but controversial antics on the court garnered much media attention.^[4] They are the subjects of The Fab Five, the highest-rated ESPN Films documentary ever produced,^[5][6] one of the featured teams in two of the highest-rated NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games ever played in terms of households (although not viewers),^[7]