ANN ARBOR — A Michigan basketball star gave new meaning to the term courtship after Friday’s game against Michigan State.

Vladislav Goldin went to midcourt at Crisler Center and proposed to his girlfriend, Camryn Vogler. She said yes.

About an hour earlier, Michigan had lost to Michigan State 75-62 in a battle for first place in the Big Ten. Goldin, Michigan’s starting center, scored a team-high 21 points.

The couple has been together for 2.5 years, they told MLive minutes after the engagement. Vogler is from Tampa, Florida; Goldin is from Russia. They met at Florida Atlantic, where Goldin played for three years before transferring to Michigan this past offseason. Vogler was a volleyball player there.

The 23-year-olds live together in Ann Arbor. They met in the library on the FAU campus, though Goldin wasn’t there to study. “I was just walking (in there) because it was too hot outside,” the 7-footer said.

The proposal was a surprise to the 5-foot-10 Vogler and everyone else other than Goldin’s teammates Nimari Burnett, who witnessed the moment, and Will Tschetter. She and Goldin called a jeweler on Friday morning, but it was a red herring: Goldin had purchased the ring about a month ago. He said he was not nervous before or during the proposal.

He was initially planning to propose on Saturday but changed his mind at some point Friday.

“I decided it doesn’t matter if we win or lose,” Goldin said. “This is something that’s more than basketball.”

They think they’ll get married in Europe. Their parents had not yet been informed at the time of the interview.

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