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Juwan Howard Needs To Be a Leader, Not an Instigator

The Michigan coach is emerging from Sunday's incident at Wisconsin with his job, and a chance to do better.

Juwan Howard has a sideline comportment problem. He is fortunate he will get a chance to work on it while still the basketball coach at Michigan.

When Howard reached out with a right hand and hit Wisconsin assistant Joe Krabbenhoft in the face after a loss Sunday, it marked at least the third time in a little more than a year where Howard has escalated a situation beyond common coaching protocol. The Michigan coach said his postgame anger was a byproduct of Wisconsin coach Greg Gard’s last-minute timeout call with the game in control.