Michigan opens the 2025-26 basketball season on Monday night (8:30 p.m., FS1) against Oakland with its highest preseason expectations in years. The Wolverines overachieved in Dusty May’s first season and now enter the year with a top-10 preseason ranking and a roster that May says has the chance to play until the final weekend.

Sofilkanich, last season’s Patriot League player of the year, is one of two transfers, along with Kendall Dudley from UCLA, hoping to transform Michigan’s frontcourt. The Wolverines open the regular season Tuesday at home against Canisius (7 p.m. ET, B1G+).

Today on Out of the Blue, the boys cover everything you need to know about Michigan Football’s upcoming game against Purdue:

Michigan completed its second exhibition game on Saturday night in New York. The Wolverines took down St. John's in overtime to win the game, 96-94. Michigan we

Size, physicality, athleticism, length," coach Dusty May said of his two big men's strengths. But also certainly, the intangibles help as well."

Michigan State was led in scoring by its four captains and veteran leaders: Jeremy Fears Jr. (14 points), Carson Cooper (12 points), Coen Carr (11 points) and Jaxon Kohler (10 points). But overall, this group needed to provide more in order to knock off a top five team in a road game like this one.

HARTFORD, Conn. (WILX) - No. 22 Michigan State men’s basketball staged a late comeback, but it was not enough to overcome No. 4 UConn as the Huskies won 76-69 in a preseason exhibition at PeoplesBank Arena in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Spartans are coming off a surprising season, winning the conference by three games and reaching the NCAA Tournament’s

Senior guard Justice Williams, who transferred from Robert Morris, will not play for WMU until the investigation is complete.

Ethan Taylor has been one of Michigan State basketball’s biggest targets during the 2026 high school basketball recruiting cycle. Michigan State is unfortunatel