Overview
- Tip-off is set for 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2 at TCU’s Schollmaier Arena in Fort Worth in a Big Ten–Big 12 matchup.
- The Wolverines are 2-0 after an 85-84 OT win, with 7-foot-3 Aday Mara opening the season with consecutive double-doubles and Elliot Cadeau averaging 10.5 assists per game, which coverage reports leads the nation.
- Dusty May has leaned into extreme size and rotating combinations, drawing a rival coach’s note that Michigan started “the tallest lineup in the history of college basketball” in the Wake Forest game.
- Michigan’s concerns include 4-for-25 three-point shooting and 17 turnovers against Wake, areas that TCU can pressure given its turnover-forcing tendencies and interior-focused defense.
- TCU enters 2-1 after an opening loss to New Orleans and wins over Saint Francis and Lamar, with frontcourt producers David Punch and Micah Robinson featured, and Michigan won last season’s meeting 76-64 in Ann Arbor.