ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team will open the 2025-26 regular season by raising its 2025 Big Ten Tournament championship banner before hosting the Oakland Golden Grizzlies inside Crisler Center.
Tipoff is slated for 8:30 p.m. on Monday (Nov. 3).
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After earning a double-bye, the men in maize went on to win three games in three days to claim their fourth Big Ten Tournament title in 2025.
The monumental victory added to the school’s previous titles from 2018, 2017, and 1998.
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After losing Danny Wolf, Tre Donaldson, Rubin Jones, Phat Phat Brooks, and Vladislav Goldin, he gained Elliot Cadeau, Morez Johnson Jr., Trey McKenney, Aday Mara, and future superstar Yaxel Lendeborg to help lead the Wolverines to their first National Championship since 1989.
The new squad split exhibition games heading into the season, losing at home to the Cincinnati Bearcats 100-98 and taking down the No. 5-ranked St. John’s Red Storm 96-94 inside Madison Square Garden.
The Wolverines will begin the new season ranked No. 7 in the AP Preseason Poll, its highest opening position since 2021-22 and the program’s seventh top-10 preseason ranking since 2012.
Michigan is one of six Big Ten teams in the preseason top 25, joining No. 1 Purdue, No. 12 UCLA, No. 17 Illinois, No. 22 Michigan State, and No. 24 Wisconsin.
The men’s basketball team will tip off its 110th season against Oakland University, where it holds an 89-20 all-time record in season openers and has won 22 consecutive season openers dating back to 2002-03.
The 2025-26 season opener marks the fifth time the Wolverines and the Golden Grizzlies have met to start a season.
Michigan leads the series 3-1 in those matchups, with wins in 1999, 2001, and 2003, and a loss in 2000.
Dusty May has reloaded this season after falling in the Sweet 16 against the Auburn Tigers, 78-65, in Atlanta.
Over the past three seasons, May has compiled an 87-22 record (.798), averaging 29 wins per year during his tenures at Florida Atlantic (2022-24) and Michigan (2024-25).
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