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Exhibition: Saginaw Valley St. at Michigan Recap

Michigan’s exhibition performance on Friday night wasn’t perfect, but it provided a useful assessment of where the Wolverines stand before Tuesday’s season opener. Michigan handled Saginaw Valley State, 82-51, but the game featured a few expected hiccups. Despite jumping out to an early 12-point lead...

Photo Gallery: Michigan 82, Saginaw Valley St. 51

Video: Juwan Howard, Isaiah Livers recap exhibition opener

Juwan Howard and Isaiah Livers discussed Michigan’s exhibition win over Saginaw Valley State on Friday evening. Posted by Michigan Basketball on UMHoops.com on Friday, November 1, 2019 Posted by Michigan Basketball on UMHoops.com on Friday, November 1, 2019

Exhibition: Michigan vs. Saginaw Valley State Open Thread

Michigan tips off against Saginaw Valley State tonight (7 p.m.) in its lone exhibition game before the 2019-20 season. The game will be streamed by BTN Plus ($), so tune in and join the discussion in the open thread below.

What to watch for: Saginaw Valley State

Michigan hosts Saginaw Valley State tonight for its only exhibition game before the 2019-20 season. The Wolverines are going through their final preparations before the Juwan Howard era officially begins on Tuesday evening against Appalachian State. We haven’t seen much from Michigan this offseason, but...

The most important things Juwan Howard said before Michigan’s exhibition opener

Juwan Howard met with local media on Thursday afternoon to preview Michigan’s exhibition game against Saginaw Valley State. Howard discussed what he hopes to get out of the game, how he plans to use his starters, and much more in the 20-minute press conference. Here...

Podcast: Preseason takes! Scrimmages, exhibitions and practices

Brendan and Dylan react to Michigan and Michigan State’s secret scrimmages, open practices and exhibition games over the past week in the final offseason podcast of 2019. The Spartans rolled past Albion on Tuesday night while Michigan beat Detroit in a secret scrimmage last week...

What I know and what I want to know about Michigan basketball in 2019-20

Michigan’s first basketball game of 2019-20 is less than a week away. Juwan Howard will take the floor as a head coach, and we’ll learn what he’s all about possession by possession. We haven’t seen much of Michigan this offseason, just 45 minutes of transition...

Recruiting Roundup: Moses Moody down to three

Michigan has seven outstanding scholarships in the 2020 class and three of those prospects could sign in the early signing period, which begins in just over two weeks. Here’s the latest on Moses Moody, Hunter Dickinson, Mark Williams and all things Michigan basketball recruiting.

Takeaways from Michigan’s open scrimmage

With just over a week until Michigan’s season-opener against Appalachian State, the Wolverines opened the doors to the public Monday evening for a scrimmage and other fan festivities. There’s plenty of mystery surrounding the upcoming season — with the Juwan Howard era set to get...

Video: Watch Michigan’s 2019-20 Open Practice

Michigan opened up the Crisler Center on Monday night to give fans their first look at the 2019-20 Wolverines under Juwan Howard. Here’s a full video Michigan’s five-on-five action from the open practice session.

The quiet confidence of Howard Eisley

As Bill Curley and his Boston College teammates celebrated a generational upset — overcoming the No. 1 overall seed in the 1994 NCAA Tournament reigning national champions, North Carolina, 75-72  — most stayed on the court to soak it all in. It was the kind...

Notes and info from Michigan’s secret scrimmage win over Detroit

Michigan won its secret scrimmage against Detroit, 82-75, on Thursday night. The Wolverines will be in action next Friday for their only public exhibition against Saginaw Valley State before opening the season on November 5th. David DeJulius came off the bench to lead Michigan with...

The roads that led Saddi Washington back to Michigan

Saddi Washington only remembers the speech “lightweight,” and maybe that serves to crystallize the point. Agreed upon is this: at some point during the 2005-06 season, the Romulus High School basketball team had a lackluster practice. There were some effort issues, guys not taking things...

Podcast: The Inaugural Moving Screen Big Ten Draft

Welcome to the Inaugural Moving Screen Big Ten Draft. We invited three guests to help us draft the top 40 players in the Big Ten. Our guests Zach Osterman, Indy Star (@ZachOsterman) Graham Couch, Lansing State Journal (@Graham_Couch) Jim Polzin, Wisconsin State Journal (@JimPolzinWSJ) Listen...