Terry Mills and Rumeal Robinson served as team co-captains and shared team co-MVP honors.[5] The team's leading scorers were Robinson (575 points), Mills (562 points), and Loy Vaught (480 points). The leading rebounders were Vaught (346), Mills (247), and Robinson (127).[6]
The team established the current Big Ten Conference single-game field goals made record against Iowa on March 10, 1990, when it made 55.[8] The team earned numerous conference statistical championships. Loy Vaught won the rebounding championship for conference games with a 10.7 average and all games with an 11.2 average, while Robinson won the assists title for all games.[9][10] This was the first year that the conference recognized both conference games and all games statistical champions.[9][10]
Vaught also set the Michigan career field goal percentage record at 67.1%. The record would stand until 1998.[11] On March 8, 1990, against Wisconsin, the team tied the school's February 21, 1987, single-game free throw percentage record by making all fifteen of its free throws, a mark that has only been outdone by the March 2, 2002 16-for-16 performance.[12] Robinson set the current school career assist average of 5.75 per game, surpassing Gary Grant's 1988 mark.[13]Loy Vaught ended his career with 135 games played, which surpassed Glen Rice's 1989 school record of 134 games to establish the record.[14] In 2012, Stu Douglass finished his career with 136 games.[15]
In the 64-team NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, number three seeded Michigan advanced one round by defeating the fourteen-seeded Illinois State 76–70 before losing to the eleven-seeded Loyola Marymount 149–115.[2] The March 18, 1990 264-point contest with Loyola Marymount stands as the highest scoring single game in NCAA tournament history.[16] It is also the highest combined total in Michigan history.[17]
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