Offseason roster-building was a success. Now, the team-building is ongoing for a Michigan men's basketball team with soaring expectations.

Michigan is a banged up team ahead of Saturday night’s game against Purdue. The 20th-ranked Wolverines played without safety Rod Moore and most of last weekend’s win over Michigan State without linebacker Cole Sullivan,

Four-star linebacker DQ Forkpa picked North Carolina over Michigan and others. The Baltimore (MD) prospect was a long time Miami lean, but it appeared like the Wolverines were wor

3. Nobody needs the head coach to throw his team under the bus after a win, or anytime, really. But Moore’s defenses of the passing game are starting to ring hollow as the Wolverines and their five-star quarterback continue to muddle through mistakes and missed opportunities.

Six minutes into the third, T.J. Hughes scored another power play goal to put the Wolverines up 5-2. Notre Dame’s Danny Nelson added a goal in the game’s closing minutes to make it 5-3, and Michigan started the weekend with a convincing win.

Michigan head coach Sherrone Moore, left, and associate head coach Biff Poggi watch quarterback Bryce Underwood (19) during the first half of the spring game at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor on Saturday, April 19, 2025.

On the opposite sideline will be Minnesota Vikings second-year quarterback J.J. McCarthy, Hutchinson’s former teammate at the University of Michigan. The two shared a locker room in 2021, when McCarthy was a freshman and Hutchinson the unquestioned leader of a Wolverines team that made a run to the College Football Playoff.

The Michigan Wolverines had their biggest offseason win of perhaps all time last year when they flipped elite quarterback Bryce Underwood away from the LSU Tigers, keeping the top recruit in-state and giving them their most talented quarterback of perhaps all time.