The 1981–82 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan in intercollegiate college basketball during the 1981–82 season. The team played its home games in the Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was a member of the Big Ten Conference. Under the direction of head coach Bill Frieder, the team finished tied for seventh in the Big Ten Conference. The team failed to earn an invitation to either the 1982 National Invitation Tournament or the 1982 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. 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.
Team players drafted into the NBA Five players from this team were selected in the NBA draft. McCormick accumulated no statistics for the season. Year Round Pick Overall Player NBA Club 1982 7 3 141 Thad Gardner Utah Jazz 1983 10 7 213 Ike Person Detroit Pistons 1984 1 12 12 Tim McCormick Cleveland Cavaliers 1984 2 8 32 Eric Turner Detroit Pistons 1984 10 19 225 Dan Pelekoudas Detroit Pistons
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