The 2025-26 Michigan Wolverines are one victory away from winning their second NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Championship. They face the Connecticut Huskies, who defeated the Illinois Fighting Illini in the semifinals. Michigan and Connecticut will battle for the championship on April 6 at 8:50 p.m. ET at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana.<\/p>\n
The Wolverines faced little opposition as they set a program record 36 wins before the championship game. They set a regular-season record with 29 wins, 19 of which came against Big Ten Conference opponents. In contrast, their three losses totaled 16 points.<\/p>\n
Michigan enters the championship game with a 19-game winning streak. They not only win, but they also dominate their bracket. The Wolverines have scored at least 90 points in each of their five postseason games, with an average winning margin of 21.6.<\/p>\n
A lot of credit goes to Michigan Wolverines head coach Dusty May<\/a>, who led the program to real contender status in his second season in Ann Arbor. However, his goal cannot be realized without a great bunch of former high school basketball and international standouts.<\/p>\n High school basketball teams and hometowns of current Michigan Wolverines players<\/p>\n Six of their 16 players were four-star prospects coming out of high school, based on the Rivals Industry Ratings. The Michigan Wolverines also have three three-star recruits, a five-star player, and three international players.<\/p>\n #0 Ricky Liburd<\/a> \u2013 Sagemont Prep<\/a> (Hollywood, Florida), 3-star<\/p>\n #1 Trey McKenney<\/a> \u2013 Orchard Lake St. Mary\u2019s Prep<\/a> (Flint, Michigan), 4-star<\/p>\n #2 L.J. Cason<\/a> \u2013 Victory Christian Academy<\/a> (Lakewood, Florida), 3-star<\/p>\n #3 Elliot Cadeau<\/a> \u2013 Link Academy<\/a> (West Orange, New Jersey), 5-star<\/p>\n #4 Nimari Burnett<\/a> \u2013 Prolific Prep<\/a> (Chicago, Illinois), 4-star<\/p>\n #5 Oscar Goodman<\/a> \u2013 NBA Global Academy<\/a> (Opunake, New Zealand), 3-star<\/p>\n #7 Howard Eisley Jr. \u2013 Archbishop Stepinac<\/a> (New York, New York)<\/p>\n #10 Winters Grady<\/a> \u2013 Prolific Prep (Tualatin, Oregon), 4-star<\/p>\n #11 Roddy Gayle Jr.<\/a> \u2013 Lewiston-Porter<\/a> (Niagara Falls, New York), 4-star<\/p>\n #12 Charlie May \u2013 Saint Andrew\u2019s School<\/a> (Boca Raton, Florida)<\/p>\n #13 Harrison Hochberg \u2013 Cushing Academy<\/a> (New York, New York)<\/p>\n #15 Aday Mara<\/a> \u2013 IES El Picarral<\/a> (Zaragoza, Spain)<\/p>\n #21 Morez Johnson Jr.<\/a> \u2013 Thornton Township<\/a> (Riverdale, Illinois), 4-star<\/p>\n #23 Yaxel Lendeborg<\/a> \u2013 Pennsauken<\/a> (Pennsauken, New Jersey)<\/p>\n #32 Malick Kordel<\/a> \u2013 Bertha-von-Suttner Gymnasium<\/a> (Oberhausen, Germany)<\/p>\n #42 Will Tschetter<\/a> \u2013 Stewartville<\/a> (Stewartville, Minnesota), 4-star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025-26 Michigan Wolverines are one victory away from winning their second NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Championship.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,5395,88033,88034,897,88035,17431,231,772,1544,18691,88036,88037,18692,88038,18693,88039,1493],"class_list":{"0":"post-701053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college-basketball","10":"tag-elliot-cadeau-23-link-academy","11":"tag-l-j-cason-24-victory-christian-academy","12":"tag-malick-kordel-25-bertha-von-suttner-gymnasium","13":"tag-mi","14":"tag-michigan-wolverines-ann-arbor","15":"tag-morez-johnson-24-thornton-township","16":"tag-ncaa","17":"tag-ncaa-basketball","18":"tag-ncaab","19":"tag-nimari-burnett-20-prolific-prep","20":"tag-oscar-goodman-25-nba-global-academy","21":"tag-ricky-liburd-25-sagemont-prep","22":"tag-roddy-gayle-jr-22-wasatch-academy","23":"tag-trey-mckenney-25-st-marys","24":"tag-will-tschetter-21-stewartville-senior","25":"tag-winters-grady-25-prolific-prep","26":"tag-yaxel-lendeborg-21-pennsauken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}