Former Michigan Wolverines basketball star Chris Webber will return to Ann Arbor this upcoming season to serve as an honorary captain.
Chris Webber is an icon at the University of Michigan. Part of an all-time basketball recruiting classes in NCAA history, Webber along with Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson took the college basketball world by storm in the early 1990s.
The “Fab Five” lead Michigan to the 1992 and ’93 NCAA Division I Championship games, but fell both times, the latter forever known by Webber’s phantom timeout in the NCAA title game. After Webber was drafted in ’93, the NCAA revealed he had accepted improper benefits from a booster. As a result, the program was forced to vacate all wins from those seasons as well as remove the Final Four banners. In addition, Webber was banished from the Michigan campus.
Well, he’ll finally be returning to Ann Arbor this fall, coming onto the football field with the Wolverines as an honorary captain.
Webber has not returned to the campus despite his banishment being lifted in 2013. A triumphant return could be exactly what Webber needs to mend the relationship between himself and the Wolverine faithful. Coach Harbaugh has injected new life into the Michigan football program since his arrival in 2015 and has landed his share of four and five-star recruits, so being able to convincing a Wolverine legend to return to campus for the first time in over 20 years is not too surprising.
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While it has not been decided which game Webber will be a captain for, the Wolverine fans will enjoy seeing one of the most legendary athletes in school history make a return to Ann Arbor.