Michigan Bball playing UNC next season at Jumpman invitational
great, love it.
As of right now, Michigan's non-conference schedule includes UNC in Jumpman invitational, Kentucky in London, and some combo of Arizona St, Pittsburgh, and VCU (who has Zeb Jackson and Brandon Johns) in Legends Classic.
If Diabate and/or Houstan return (or Michigan gets Shannon), I'm hoping that Michigan will have enough experience to win some of these tougher non-conference games and go into the Big Ten season with some momentum.
So you also didn't enjoy going 0-3 against tough P5 opponents and then sweating out selection Sunday?
I feel last year was a bit of an outlier for us under Juwan Howard (small sample size, so we'll see). During the COVID year, we crushed both UNC and Gonzaga.
If Brandon Johns shoots >50% on his layups, we should fire howard immediately!
If only the football schedule gave us decent OOC competition.
Sigh.
I agree with you, I love the big OOC games, I think in 24 there is a Texas game and Oklahoma after that but we'll see if they happen with what's going on with them
That's gonna be tough early. It's fine but they will be better than this year's team and we don't even have our roster set
Last 4 vs UNC
Played them four times since 2017 to mixed results. This past season's loss was one that was somewhat "mixed opinion" at the time. Optimism for UM was still very high, while UNC was considered to be a down team. UNC, of course, would go on to appear in the National Championship game.
Three of these four were Big Ten/ACC Challenge games. Interesting how we seem to keep finding them on our schedule.
12/1/2021 Chapel Hill
UNC 72 - 51 UM
11/28/2019 Paradise Island, Bahamas
UNC 64 - 73 UM
11/28/2018 Ann Arbor, Mich.
UNC 67 - 84 UM
11/29/2017 Chapel Hill
UNC 86 - 71 UM
The Florida of basketball.
I went to both games in Chapel Hill, and M fell apart late in the first half in 2017 and early in the second half last year. The UNC fans are still bringing "Time Out" signs to games, which is dumb. I doubt Charlotte will be much of a neutral court but it will be nice to get them away from the Dean Dome.
I went to both games and we were basically blown out in both. I thought I was the cause but it looks like you should share in the blame also. :-)
Odd they only play 1 game. Guess I'll go to the Legends Classic instead.
and we are playing Kentucky in London two weeks earlier? Nice!!
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The eagerly anticipated Kentucky men's basketball game vs. Michigan in London – the Basketball Hall of Fame London Showcase – has been reset for Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. Tickets are slated to go on sale March 4 at 4 a.m. ET (9 a.m. in London [GMT]) online through AXS.com and The O2 Arena.
Caleb Love vs. Hunter Dickinson, part deux? Sounds like an early Christmas present to me!
Again!? Give us Duke or Louisville
Neither are Jumpman schools so they wouldn't be in this showcase.
I knowww. I’m just tired of playing unc.
UNC is going to be incredible next year
Would have preferred them making a return trip to Crisler, which they still owe us.
That blowout game against them at Crisler in 2018 was one of the most satisfying BB victories we’ve had this past decade…at least for a regular season game.
I was sooo loud that game! A lot of looks...
Michigan should also be getting a home game in the Big Ten/ACC challenge next year. Duke is also in-line for a home game, so it won't be them. My guess is that we get Syracuse, Virginia, or Wake Forest, who are all due away games.
Zeb and Brandon combine for 50
GO GET 'EM.
(but, like a few others on here, I'm kind of over playing UNC at this point. I would love to see some matchups against the likes of Syracuse, Virginia, G'town, St. John's, UConn, Texas and UCLA. I'm glad that matchup with Kentucky is back on. And it's been a while since they played Duke; they used to play each other fairly frequently.)
Me and a friend of mine who is a huge Carolina fan used to beg for a matchup and couldn’t get one since the 1993 game and then all of the sudden we started playing every year. Now we are both kind of over it at this point.