Michigan will open 2023 Battle 4 Atlantis against Memphis on November 22nd. The opening round game will tip at 5:00 p.m. on ESPN2. The Wolverines will then face either Arkansas or Stanford on November 23rd. That game will tip at 2:30 p.m. if its in...
In April, once the dust settled on Michigan’s disappointing 2022-23 season, Dug McDaniel went to work. “I’ve been locked in all spring and summer,” McDaniel said Tuesday on the ‘Defend the Block’ podcast. “I made an emphasis to make it as behind-the-scenes as possible. I...
Class of 2024 commitment Christian Anderson helped Germany to the bronze medal at the 2023 FIBA U18 European Championships this month. He averaged 14 poiints, 2.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists over seven games at the event. Here’s an in-depth look at his performance throughout the...
When Phil Martelli talked to Malachi Moreno in April, the Michigan associate head coach told him how he and Juwan Howard would personally watch him play in an April tournament. It was a meaningful moment for the four-star big out of Kentucky, but not nearly...
George Washington III calls it beautiful. After his father took a job coaching Dayton, the rising senior left Christian Academy of Louisville to enroll at Dayton’s Chaminade Julienne high school. A roster that lost nearly all its top players from the previous season, the 2022-23...
Michigan published an updated roster for the 2023-24 season today, providing a first look at updated heights, weights and official confirmation of newcomer numbers. Sophomore point guard Dug McDaniel is listed at 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, that’s 15 pounds above his freshman-year listing. Seton Hall transfer...
Welcome to Transfer Tapes, a multi-part offseason series where we watch a full game from one of Michigan’s incoming transfers. The plan is to watch a handful of historical games featuring Michigan’s incoming transfers. We can dive into stats, clips, metrics, and anything else, but...
On the morning of March 28 — just four days after Alabama’s season came to a crushing end in the Sweet Sixteen — Nimari Burnett entered the transfer portal. A few hours later, Juwan Howard called. And two days after that phone call, on March...
It’s officially list cutting season in college basketball recruiting after the final grassroots evaluation period ended on Sunday. Two five-star Michigan targets included the Wolverines among their lists of finalists today. Five-star big man Flory Bidunga is down to four programs: Duke, Kansas, Michigan and...
For most college basketball players, the offseason follows a well-worn script. Go home and see family, return to campus, then grind in the gym before a new season dawns. That’s a luxury that Michigan transfer forward Olivier Nkamhoua doesn’t know. His offseason has been chaotic...
Michigan forward Olivier Nkamhoua met with the media on Saturday evening for the first time since joining the program. Nkamhoua discussed his fit in the new program, his upcoming trip overseas for the FIBA World Cup and more.
Editor’s note: Welcome Paul Nasr as a new beat writer this year. He’ll be on the beat with us covering the team and his first story comes from a Youssef Khayat podcast interview translated from Arabic. Appearing in just nine games and averaging 1.3 points...
West Virginia transfer Jose Perez will take an official visit to Michigan on July 28th, per a report by Trilly Donovan. Perez is a graduate transfer who entered the portal after Bob Huggins resigned from his post as head coach. He averaged 18.9 points, 4.5...
Tray Jackson still remembers the moment he realized his Seton Hall Pirates had an away game scheduled with the Michigan Wolverines. “My eyes lit up,” Jackson recalled Tuesday on the ‘Defend the Block’ podcast. “I knew that I had to have a good game.” Jackson,...
The college basketball world descending on the southeast over the last week as college coaches were on-hand to watch prospects at the Nike Peach Jam, Adidas 3SSB and Under Armour Association. All three events were only separated by a couple of hours’ drive as college...
With just a few days until the transfer portal closes, Michigan’s April has been...
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Michigan junior Danny Wolf is headed to the NBA Draft and will forgo his...
Michigan wing Nimari Burnett will be back for another season in Ann Arbor. The...