The 1998–99

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team represented the

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in intercollegiate

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during the 1998–99 season. The team played its home games in the

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, and was a member of the

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. Under the direction of

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, the team finished tied for ninth in the Big Ten Conference. The team earned a tenth seed and advanced to the second round of the

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. The team failed to earn an invitation to either the

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or the

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. The team was unranked for all eighteen weeks of Associated Press Top Twenty-Five Poll, and it also ended the season unranked in the final USA Today/CNN Poll. The team had a 6–11 record against ranked opponents, including the following victories: November 23, 1998, against #24 Clemson 59–56 in the

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at Lahania Civic Center in

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, December 30, 1998, against #19

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59–55 at home, January 5, 1999, against #13

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82–70 at home, January 16, 1999, against #21

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84–74 at home, February 7, 1999, against #18

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75–65 at home, February 27, 1999, against #16

51–39 on the road at the

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and Robbie Reid served as team co-

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s, while

earned team

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honors. The team's leading scorers were

(643 points), Robbie Reid (418 points) and John Asselin (275 points). The leading rebounders were Peter Vignier (229), John Asselin (183), and Bullock (117). Bullock led the Big Ten Conference in

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in all games (86.4%). Reid led the conference in

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s made in conference games (49) and three-point field goal percentage in conference games (45.8%). Bullock established the current Big Ten Conference record for career three-point field goals made (339). The record carries an asterisk in the Big Ten Media guide and

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's (332, 1998) name is below Bullock's with a 1 next to it signifying it is the highest recognized total. There is a similar asterisk in the Michigan record book where his name is above Dion Harris's 268 total in 2007. Bullock also ended his career with the highest total number of

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s made (505) in Michigan history, above

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's 486 total set in 1966. Bullock's career free throw percentage of 86.03 surpassed Russell's 82.65 from 1966 and still is above Lester Abram's 82.93 from 2007. Bullock surpassed his 1997 single-season free throw record with a 91.11%. The team surpassed the 1987 team's 75.0% mark as the best free throw shooting team in school history with a 75.2% average. This stood as the best in school history until 2002. On December 9, 1998, it set the school single-game record by making 34 free throws against the . This surpassed the 33 made on January 23, 1971, and was surpassed twice the following season. Bullock set the career records for minutes played (4356) and games started (129), surpassing Gary Grant’s 1988 totals of 4231 and 128. Both continued to be school bests with Grant holding the highest untarnished totals until 2012 when

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finished his career with 4357 minutes. In the

at the

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from March 4–7, Michigan was seeded tenth. In the first round they defeated number 7

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79–73 in

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. In the second round, they lost to number two

87–69.

Team players drafted into the NBA

One player from this team was selected in the

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Team players drafted into the NBA

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