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There may be a top-20 showdown on the gridiron in Ann Arbor this weekend between No. 12 USC and No. 16 Michigan, but ever so slowly, basketball season is arriving.
With just over a month until Michigan basketball opens its season against Oakland on Oct. 20, the Big Ten revealed its conference schedule in its entirety Thursday afternoon. The Wolverines have known for months which teams they will see once or twice, home or away, but now they know the order of operations for their first season under Dusty May.
U-M’s new men’s basketball head coach Dusty May speaks during introductory press conference at Junge Family Champions Center in Ann Arbor on Tuesday, March 26, 2024.
Among the highlights, May and company will head to East Lansing on March 9 to square off with Tom Izzo and Michigan State in the final game of the season; the Spartans’ trip to Crisler Center is roughly two weeks before on Feb. 21.
The Wolverines will also make it a double-dip when they stop in Los Angeles to face a pair of the conference newcomers in USC (Jan. 4) and UCLA (Jan. 7), meaning the Wolverines will make just one trip to the West Coast to face the new Big Ten teams as they play Washington (Jan. 12) and Oregon (Feb. 5) at home.
With the 18-team league and a 20-game conference slate, every team will play the other 17 teams at least once, with three teams meeting both home and away.
For Michigan, the home-and-away opponents are Michigan State, Rutgers and Purdue, last year’s national runner-up, which fell to UConn in the national championship game.
Few teams in the country have experienced as much turnaround as Michigan since last March when it wrapped up the worst season in program history (8-24, 3-17 Big Ten). Athletic Director Warde Manuel relieved Juwan Howard of his duties, then hired May, who in-turn brought in an entirely new staff from top to bottom.
They also got to work on the roster. The only holdovers from last year’s team? Graduate wing Nimari Burnett, senior forward Will Tschetter and…
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Author : Detroit Free Press
Publish date : 2024-09-19 21:10:25
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