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Updates from Michigan basketball vs. Indiana Hoosiers
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The last time that Michigan basketball took the court at home, at Crisler Center, the Wolverines lost their first game of the season, with a feisty Wisconsin team taking them down. Since, the maize and blue had a successful West Coast trip, having beaten both Washington and Oregon on their home court. But now, the Michigan basketball team is back in Crisler, with hopes that it can best a very good Indiana team.
Indiana enters the contest at 3-4 in the Big Ten and 12-6 overall. The Wolverines are third in the conference with a 6-1 record, at 16-1 overall, and ranked third in the country.
How will the home team fare? Tipoff is at 7 p.m. EST. Follow along live with updates and analysis.
Pregame
The starting lineup for Michigan:
- G Elliot Cadeau
- G Nimari Burnett
- F Morez Johnson Jr.
- F Yaxel Lendeborg
- C Aday Mara
And for Indiana:
- G Lamar Wilkerson
- G Conor Enright
- G Tayton Conerway
- F Sam Alexis
- F Tucker DeVries
Under-16 media timeout – first half
Michigan turns IU over to start things off. Got some good offensive rebounding and multiple chances on the first offensive possession. Center Aday Mara got away with a bit of a travel on the first score, misses two free throw attempts on the second possession. Elliot Cadeau hits a 3 to put U-M up 5-0. Cadeau drives the lane to put Michigan up 7-0.
Meanwhile, IU is completely out of rhythm to start the game, hoisting contested 3s that are nowhere close. The Wolverine defense is definitely keeping the Hoosiers from doing much of anything, but their own defense has also kept the maize and blue from scoring at will.
Under-12 media timeout – first half
IU still cannot get much of anything going. To some degree, the Wolverines are playing a little too fast trying to put the Hoosiers away early. A couple of turnovers have negated some momentum as a result.
Cadeau continues to be the entirety of the Michigan offense, essentially, having scored 7 of the Wolverines’ 9. IU finally gets on the board with a floater, to make the deficit 9-2. A turnover on Michigan’s end (Roddy Gayle Jr. was stripped) and a foul on the other end allows the Hoosiers to score two more. But Cadeau answers with his second 3 of the game to put Michigan up 12-4.
Yaxel Lendeborg still not quite looking to be full strength.
IU is so disjointed that even a breakaway didn’t work for it. Will Tschetter did a good job of hustling back and getting in front of the ball carrier, and then they missed the layup. Trey McKenney hit a 3 on the other end to put Michigan up 17-4 with 11:43 remaining in the first half.
Under-eight media timeout – first half
Michigan opens the foray with its third block of the game before LJ Cason drives the basket and scores underneath to put U-M up 19-4. A Sam Alexis free throw adds a point for IU, but he gets his second personal foul on the other end with 9:58 remaining in the half. That allowed McKenney to hit his second 3 of the game, but IU answers with a 3 of its own and a layup. Tschetter stops the five-point run by tacking on a 3 of his own and plays excellent defense on the other end of the floor. IU converts another 3, but Nimari Burnett hits another on Michigan’s end, and it’s 28-13 going into the media timeout.
Michigan is shooting 57% from the floor, including 50% from 3. Indiana? 22%.
Update: Morez Johnson Jr. torn jersey
He’ll wear No. 51 for the rest of the game.
Under-four media timeout – first half
IU hits two free throws to cut the deficit to 13 (game high was Michigan by 17). Johnson is fouled on what almost was a beautiful alley-oop, misses his first free throw, but converts his second. IU hits a 3 and is starting to find an offensive rhythm. Yaxel Lendeborg turns it over, but so does IU. Aday Mara gets a not-so-pretty alley-oop from Johnson, but IU has now hit five of its last five field goal attempts, now shooting 30%. Michigan is getting stymied with six turnovers to this point, but they’re also outrebounding Indiana 17-5. The Hoosiers hit another 3, and suddenly it’s an eight-point game.
Lendeborg hits a floater to put Michigan back up by 10. The Hoosiers finally miss a shot but the Wolverines turn it over for a seventh time. Michigan 33, Indiana 23.
Final four minutes – first half
An Indiana turnover (its fourth) leads to a Michigan turnover (its eighth). Cadeau misses a free throw attempt but gets the ball back and puts it up. It rims out, but it’s put back by Johnson. It was initially called an offensive goaltend, but Michigan challenged it and it was overturned.
IU scores on the other end, but Tschetter hit yet another 3 to put Michigan back up by 13. After IU scored via two free throws, Cadeau danced through the lane to get a layup as time expired, to put Michigan up 40-29, going into the half.
In a game Michigan had to have by any means, it found a way. The Wolverines trailed for over 36 minutes at home on Tuesday night, gave up 50 points in the first half, and made just one of their final 15 3-point attempts. Somehow, Michigan won anyway, knocking off No. 5 Nebraska to keep its Big Ten title hopes healthy.
The Wolverines survived the barrage of early threes and outlasted the undermanned Huskers, recording stops on eight of the final nine possessions of the game to pull away with a game-winning 6-0 run down the stretch.
Writing this recap, I can’t help but feel like I’m on the other side of a script that I’ve written routinely on this site over the years. We’ve all seen this story before: a five-out team spreads out a bigger, more talented team and makes them look like they’ve never played basketball before with a barrage of threes and cutting layups.
In the end, the threes go cold, and the bigger team wins the game by overwhelming its opponent in areas that are impossible to outscheme: offensive rebounds, defense, and free throws.
When John Beilein’s teams lost, this is usually what it looked like. Tonight, Michigan wore the other shoe.
Nebraska played the better game, but Michigan was the bigger, deeper, and more talented team. The Wolverines went to the free-throw line 23 times, knocking down 14 of 17 in the second half, and scored 14 of their 27 second-half points on second-chance opportunities to escape with the crucial home win.
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Michigan football releases 2026 schedule for first season under head coach Kyle Whittingham
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The University of Michigan Athletic Department and the Big Ten Conference announced the 2026 football schedule for the first season under new head coach Kyle Whittingham and his Michigan Wolverines.
The schedule, which features eight home games, including all four in September, was announced on Tuesday (Jan. 27).
Michigan will kick off its 147th football season with three non-conference home games: Western Michigan on Sept. 5, Oklahoma on Sept. 12, and UTEP on Sept. 19.
Following these, the Wolverines will begin their nine-game Big Ten schedule.
The conference opener will be at home against Iowa on Sept. 26, marking Michigan’s 120th Big Ten conference opener at Michigan Stadium.
Michigan’s first road game of the season will be Oct. 3 at Minnesota’s Huntington Bank Stadium.
The Wolverines and Golden Gophers will compete for the Little Brown Jug, college football’s oldest trophy, in the 100th meeting of this historic rivalry.
Michigan holds a commanding 74-23-2 record in the previous 99 contests.
After a bye week, Michigan returns home for back-to-back games against Penn State on Oct. 17 and defending national champion Indiana on Oct. 24.
The Wolverines will then travel to Rutgers for an Oct. 31 game.
The annual rivalry game against Michigan State has been pushed back a week and will take place Nov. 7 at Michigan Stadium.
The two teams will battle for the Paul Bunyan Trophy in the 74th meeting of this series.
Michigan leads the series 42-29-2 and holds a 75-38-5 advantage overall in the rivalry, which dates back to 1898.
The Wolverines will then travel to Eugene, Oregon, for their first matchup against the Ducks as conference opponents on Nov. 14 at Autzen Stadium.
A week later, the Wolverines will host new Big Ten opponent UCLA at Michigan Stadium on Nov. 21.
The regular season will conclude with the 122nd meeting of “The Game” against Ohio State on Nov. 28 at Ohio Stadium.
Michigan has won its last two trips to Columbus, 45-23 in 2022 and 13-10 in 2024, and holds a 62-53-6 advantage in the all-time series.
| Date | Opponent |
|---|---|
| Sept. 5 | Western Michigan |
| Sept. 12 | Oklahoma Sooners |
| Sept. 19 | UTEP |
| Sept 26 | Iowa Hawkeyes |
| Oct. 3 | at Minnesota Golden Gophers |
| Oct. 10 | BYE |
| Oct. 17 | Penn State Nitanny Lions |
| Oct. 24 | Indiana Hoosiers |
| Oct. 31 | at Rutgers Scarlett Knights |
| Nov. 7 | Michigan State |
| Nov. 14 | at Oregon Ducks |
| Nov. 21 | UCLA Bruins |
| Nov. 28 | at Ohio State Buckeyes |
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Michigan student who left frat party in just T-shirt and jeans found dead in ‘extreme cold’
A missing University of Michigan student has been found dead more than a day after he was last seen leaving a fraternity party in just a T-shirt and jeans in bone-chilling storm temperatures, according to police.
Engineering student Lucas Mattson, 19, was last seen walking without a jacket at around 1 a.m. Friday, as temperatures plummeted as low as 0 degrees, WILX reported.
His body was found Saturday night following a 20-hour search in “extreme cold conditions,” police said.
Mattson is one of at least 34 to die from Winter Storm Fern, which impacted more than two-thirds of all Americans.
“At this time, we can share that prior to disappearing, Lucas was attending a party at a fraternity house as a guest; he was neither a member nor a pledge,” University of Michigan interim president Domenico Grasso said in a statement, warning against “misinformation” spreading about his death around the school community.
“We must let the investigators complete their work and refrain from speculation until the facts are known.”
Mattson was reported missing at 4:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department. Officers spent the whole night searching but were unable to find him.
His body was later located Saturday night on Cambridge Road, cops said.
“The nearly 20-hour search effort to locate him took place in extreme cold conditions and included officers from AAPD and University of Michigan Division of Public Safety and Security, as well as the University of Michigan Police Department Drone Unit,” police said in a press release.
There were no signs of trauma and foul play is not suspected at this time, cops said.
The Washtenaw County Medical Examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of death, police said.
Grasso said he’s asked school officials to retrace the events of the night Mattson disappeared “to better understand what transpired and identify possible steps to help prevent similar tragedies in the future.”
“I am grateful for the outpouring of support from so many people worried about Lucas’s welfare, including those who searched for him in extremely difficult weather conditions,” the university president said.
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