• 2025-26 U-M Men’s Basketball Schedule

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan men’s basketball team announced Thursday (Aug. 28) the finalization of its 11-game non-conference regular season schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 season. Details for the Wolverines’ exhibition schedule and Big Ten 20-game schedule will be announced when they become available.

After announcing a rematch with Wake Forest (Nov. 11) in Downtown Detroit (Little Caesars Arena), a road game at TCU (Nov. 14), inclusion in the 2025 Players Era Championship (Nov. 24-27), a home-and-home series with Villanova (Dec. 9) and a matchup with national power Duke (Feb. 21) during the final half of the Big Ten schedule, the Maize and Blue add four home games to complete its pre-Big Ten schedule.

The 2025-26 season begins with Oakland heading to Ann Arbor on Monday, Nov. 3. The regular-season opener is the first meeting since 2020 and the 10th overall series meeting. The Wolverines hold an 8-1 record, having won their last seven games against the Grizzlies. The game is scheduled to hold a pregame banner raising for the 2025 Big Ten Tournament championship.

Heading into mid-November, the Maize and Blue host Middle Tennessee on Nov. 19 in what will be the second-ever meeting with the Blue Raiders. It is the first game in 39 years as the lone other meeting was an 85-83 Wolverine loss at the UAB Classic (Dec. 29, 1986).

Returning from Thanksgiving in Las Vegas and the Players Era and after battling Villanova, U-M closes its pre-conference slate facing LaSalle on Sunday, Dec. 21, then McNeese on Monday, Dec. 29.

In what will be a Dec. 21 doubleheader with the U-M women’s basketball team, Michigan’s only other meeting with LaSalle was 50 years ago in the Las Vegas Holiday Classic (Dec. 29, 1975). In the Wolverines’ fifth straight win, U-M upset the 20th-ranked Explorers 86-71. After upsetting U-M 86-76 in the first-ever meeting, on Dec. 29, 2023, McNeese returns to Crisler Center exactly two years later to square off with the Wolverines.

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2025-26 Michigan Non-Conference Schedule

• Monday, Nov. 3: Oakland (Crisler Center)

• Tuesday, Nov. 11: vs. Wake Forest (Detroit, Mich.)

• Friday, Nov. 14: at TCU (Fort Worth, Texas)

• Wednesday, Nov. 19: Middle Tennessee (Crisler Center)

• Monday, Nov. 24: vs. San Diego State (Las Vegas, Nev.)

• Tuesday, Nov. 25: vs. Auburn (Las Vegas, Nev.)

• Wednesday or Thursday, Nov. 26 or 27: vs. TBD (Las Vegas, Nev.)

• Tuesday, Dec. 9: Villanova (Crisler Center)

• Sunday, Dec. 21: LaSalle (Crisler Center)

• Monday, Dec. 29: McNeese (Crisler Center)

• Saturday, Feb. 21: vs. Duke (Washington, D.C.)

Previous Schedule Announcements

• Wolverines to Begin Home-and-Home Series with Villanova (8/6/2025)

• Players Era Announces Schedule, Venues, TV (7/14/2025)

• Wolverines to Open with SDSU, Auburn at Players Era (7/1/2025)

• Wolverines Set to Square Off with Duke at Duel in The District (6/24/2025)

• Wolverines Release Return Dates for Wake Forest, TCU (6/4/2025)