Wildmind Meditation News
Feb 11, 2012
How does the Michigan basketball team get its mind right? By meditating
The Michigan basketball team has battled its share of shooting slumps this season.
Consider:
- Sophomore guard Tim Hardaway Jr. has made 13 of his last 47 shots (27.7 percent).
- Junior guard Matt Vogrich’s shooting percentage of 37.0 is the lowest of his career.
- Sophomore forward Evan Smotrycz went 4-for-25 in a four-game stretch in January.
Michigan coach John Beilein’s best solution for each slump has been continued repetition, forcing each player to shoot his way out of a funk. His secondary solution?
That’d be meditation.
“We (meditate) throughout the year, and we try to teach them some things about how to relax,” Beilein said Friday. “A lot …


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