Fab Five (University of Michigan)
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The Fab Five was the 1991 University of Michigan men's basketball team recruiting class that many consider one of the greatest recruiting classes of all time.[1] The class consisted of Detroit natives Chris Webber (#4) and Jalen Rose (#5), Chicago native Juwan Howard (#25), and two recruits from Texas: Plano's Jimmy King (#24) and Austin's Ray Jackson (#21).[2] The Fab Five were the first team in NCAA history to compete in the championship game with all-freshman starters.[3]
Their trend-setting but controversial antics on the court garnered much media attention.[4] They are the subjects of The Fab Five, the highest-rated ESPN Films documentary ever produced,[5][6] one of the featured teams in two of the highest-rated NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games ever played in terms of households (although not viewers),[7][8] and a marketing juggernaut whose merchandise sales dwarfed even those of the national champion 1988–89 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team.[9]
Four of the five participated in the 1991 McDonald's All-American Game.[10] Four McDonald's All-Americans in a single recruiting class stood as an unbroken record until the 2013 McDonald's All-American Boys Game included six members of the entering class for the 2013–14 Kentucky Wildcats team.[11] Four of the five members went on to play in the NBA.