BRIAN DUTCHER

ANN ARBOR -- Former Michigan men’s basketball assistant coach Brian Dutcher recently returned to Crisler Center for the first time since 1998, as San Diego State’s head coach. LaVall Jordan, head coach, ButlerJordan was a Beilein assistant at Michigan for XX seasons before getting the head job at Milwaukee in 2016. DeAndre Haynes, assistant, MarquetteLike Yaklich, Haynes came to Michigan from Illinois State, though Haynes had only been there a few months before the Michigan job opened. The Purple Eagles are 4-6, and 0-2 in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, under head coach Greg Paulus. More Michigan basketball content:There’s time, but Michigan basketball needs fixingMichigan upset by Minnesota at home

Hunter Dickinson had 23 points and 14 rebounds, freshman Caleb Houstan scored a season-high 17 points and No. 24 Michigan beat San Diego State 72-58.

ANN ARBOR -- Michigan beat San Diego State at Crisler Center on Saturday afternoon, the basketball game serving as an undercard for both schools’ athletic departments. Michigan and San Diego State had never met on the hardwood before Saturday, but the two programs have history together. At the other end of the floor, Matt Bradley led San Diego State with 22 points, but scored just eight in the second half. San Diego State scored with 14:28 left in the second half to get within four before the Wolverines took control. At the other end, Michigan went through a 1-for-10 shooting stretch before Houstan canned his third 3, from the corner, to make it 33-29.

Michigan welcomes San Diego State to Crisler Center on Saturday afternoon for the first meeting between the two programs. Hoke is back at San Diego State; his team will kick off its conference championship game right around the time the basketball game is set to end. Martelli said that, regardless of who is in the game, San Diego State’s defensive effort is “inspiring.” The half-court offense, though, is “still a work in a progress” according to Dutcher. San Diego State, which lost at BYU and to USC on a neutral court and beat Arizona State and Georgetown, is amped for the nationally-televised matchup against an elite program. Game InformationWho: San Diego State Aztecs (5-2) at No.

ANN ARBOR -- Juwan Howard has said he’s borrowed from all the great coaches he’s played for and worked under during his long career in basketball. He will face one of his favorite former coaches, Brian Dutcher, on Saturday when San Diego State comes to Michigan. “I haven’t learned anything from Coach Dutcher,” Howard deadpanned. “This was a guy who pressed his uniform before a game,” Dutcher told MLive in 2019, after Michigan hired Howard. “I reached out to Juwan,” Dutcher said earlier this week.

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(AP Photo/AJ Mast)INDIANAPOLIS – The decades-old zone defense of Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim claimed another frustrated victim Friday night. 11 seed Orange held sixth-seeded San Diego State without a field goal for nearly a quarter of the game, sweet-shooting Buddy Boeheim hit seven 3-pointers and finished with 30 points, and Syracuse cruised to a 78-62 victory inside Hinkle Fieldhouse and into the second round of the NCAA Tournament. It gets harder to drive.”“Buddy Buckets” nearly outscored San Diego State by himself. Schakel finally got a 3-pointer to go right out of halftime, giving the few San Diego State fans in the crowd a long-awaited reason to cheer. San Diego State hoped to make a deep run after its loaded 30-2 team last season missed out on a chance to play in the tournament.