Report: Michigan to face UNC at inaugural Jumpman Invitational

The 2022-23 Michigan Wolverines males’s basketball workforce will face North Carolina within the inaugural Jumpman Invitational, in response to school hoops insider Jon Rothstein.

The Wolverines will tackle the Tar Heels on Dec. 21, and the winner of that sport will face the winner of Oklahoma and Florida, the opposite first spherical sport within the invitational.

This offers Michigan one other high quality opponent in non-conference play, including to some must-see matchups already set for subsequent yr.

Michigan will take part within the 2022 Legends Traditional in Brooklyn on Nov. 16-17. Matchups haven’t been introduced for that, however the traditional will embody U-M, Arizona State, Pittsburgh and VCU, the latter of which might arrange a sport towards two Michigan transfers (Brandon Johns Jr., Zeb Jackson).

The Wolverines will even face Kentucky on Dec. 4 in a sport set to be performed in London, England. This implies within the month of December, with Hunter Dickinson returning for his junior season, we’re going to get him go up towards two of faculty basketball’s finest large males in UNC’s Armando Bacot and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe.

Over the previous couple of seasons, Michigan has completed an ideal job organising matchups to check itself earlier than convention play begins. It must be thrilling to see how this Michigan roster chock filled with expertise will reply towards among the blue bloods of faculty basketball.