The Fab Five gained fans and detractors alike for their unabashed confidence and trendsetting style.
The second of these matchups that season was a coming out party for Michigan's Fab Five.
Michigan spokesman Dave Ablauf declined to address the school's plans as they relate to the Fab Five.
The Fab Five led Michigan to the 1992 NCAA tournament final, which the Wolverines lost to Duke.
The Fab Five teams at Michigan in the 1990s famously wore black socks under their black sneakers.
"We're nowhere near the Fab Five, " said Michigan forward Glenn Robinson III, son of the former NBA star.
The other four members of the Fab Five sat in the lower rows of a fan section behind Michigan's bench.
The Wolverines are back at the Final Four for the first time since the Fab Five led them there in 1993.
Michigan, meanwhile, is back in the Four the first time in 20 years, the last time being in 1993 with the Fab Five.
The Fab Five's Final Four banners were removed from Crisler Arena.
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The last time Michigan made it this far was the Fab Five era of the early 1990s, what until now had been considered the program's glory years.
With four wins in this NCAA tourney, the Wolverines already have more tournament victories than their total from the end of the Fab Five era to this season.
Now they act like the Fab Five never happened, even though we made tens of millions of dollars for the university and they're still making money off of us.
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Michigan, making its first Final Four appearance since the Fab Five era, takes on suffocating Syracuse in a national semifinal Saturday night that presents a clear contrast in styles.
Webber's actions violated the NCAA's amateurism rules, the organization found, and tarnished the legacy of the famous "Fab Five" recruiting class that played for national titles in 1992 and 1993.
Michigan (30-7) is headed back to the Final Four for the first time since the Fab Five era of the early 1990s, when the Wolverines lost in back-to-back national title games.
Over 20 years since the fabled Fab Five kept Michigan basketball in the national spotlight with back-to-back appearances in the National Championship game, the 2012-13 Wolverines are attempting to restore past glories.
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During their gold-medal-winning team competition last week, the "fab five" of Gabby Douglas, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross and Jordyn Wieber shared a whopping 55 individual hugs with teammates and coaches.
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College basketball has grown younger as more star players leave after one season, the NBA-mandated minimum to enter the draft, but no team since the Fab Five has reached the NCAA final with an all-freshmen starting five.
"They play with a swagger, and they have a right to do that, " said San Diego State coach Steve Fisher, who knows about players with attitude, having led the Fab Five to consecutive national championship games at Michigan.
The school's disassociation period from Webber ends May 8, but it is unclear whether or how it will acknowledge him or the Fab Five, whose two NCAA finals banners were removed from the school's basketball arena amid the scandal.
The Wolverines held off Syracuse's late rally to win 61-56 on Saturday at the Georgia Dome and return to the title game for the first time since 1993, when the Fab Five sophomores took the Wolverines to the finals for the second year in a row.
"The Fab Five is such a tremendous story, five tremendous guys that did something special, " coach John Beilein said Friday, a day when all four teams got a chance to practice in the cavernous, 70, 000-seat Georgia Dome that is normally home of the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
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