Get Ready: Beilein Five vs. The Buckeyes What's Going On for Motown Night

» In the teams' only regular-season meeting, No. 5 Michigan will host Ohio State at Crisler Center in a Super Tuesday contest on ESPN2.
» Ignas Brazdeikis earned his fourth Big Ten Freshman of the Week honor after averaging 19.0 points and 9.0 rebounds in U-M's two wins last week.
» Zavier Simpson is one game away from playing in his 100th career game at U-M. He has played in 99 straight games for the Wolverines, not missing a single game.
» Simpson needs just one assist to reach 300 in his career and become the 15th Wolverine to reach the level.
» Tuesday's game will be Motown Night at Crisler as fans will celebrate the history, culture and music of Motown -- started in Detroit.

NEXT GAME
Tuesday, Jan. 29 -- vs. Ohio State (Crisler Center), 9 p.m.

The fifth-ranked University of Michigan men's basketball team (19-1, 8-1 Big Ten) will host Ohio State (13-6, 3-5 Big Ten) on Tuesday (Jan. 29) for Motown Night at Crisler Center. In an ESPN2 broadcast, tipoff is scheduled for 9:05 p.m. with Dave Flemming, Dan Dakich and Molly McGrath on the call.

A Little Bit About Ohio State

• Ohio State comes to Ann Arbor with a 13-6 overall record and a 3-5 mark in Big Ten play.
• With a 70-60 road win at Nebraska on Saturday, the Buckeyes snapped a five-game drought to pick up their third Big Ten win.
• OSU is led by sophomore big man Kaleb Wesson, who averages a team-best 14.9 points as well as a team-best 6.8 rebounds per game. He is shooting 51.1 percent from the field and has made 121 trips to the free throw line (.727 shooting) -- more than double the next closest Buckeye.
• Senior guard C.J. Jackson is second on the Buckeyes with 12.6 points per game, and he leads OSU with 37 three-pointers, shooting 38.9 percent from deep. He adds a team-best 3.7 assists per game.
• Freshman guard Luther Muhammed, coming off a career-best 24 points at Nebraska, is averaging 9.9 points, while junior guard Andrew Wesson -- older brother of Kaleb -- scores 8.5 points per game.
• The Buckeyes will be without the services of sophomore forward Kyle Young due to a stress fracture in his lower right leg. Young leads the Big Ten in field goal percentage, shooting 73.2 percent from the field.
• Chris Holtmann is in his second season as head coach at Ohio State. In his first year, Holtmann led the Buckeyes to a 25-9 overall record and was named Big Ten Coach of the Year. Holtmann was the previously the head coach at Butler for three seasons (2014-17) prior to moving to Columbus.

The All-Time Series with the Buckeyes

• Tuesday's game will be the 182nd all-time meeting between Michigan and Ohio State.
• The Wolverines trail 78-103 in the all-time series. U-M won last season's lone match-up, 74-62, at Crisler Center (Feb. 18, 2018). However, the Wolverines are 2-4 in the last six against the Buckeyes.
• U-M holds a 48-38 record against OSU in Ann Arbor and has won four of the last five home meetings.
• There have been 33 games in the series decided by three or fewer points, with U-M going 14-19 in those games. The last time a game was decided by three points or fewer was U-M's 72-69 semifinal win in the 2014 Big Ten Tournament (March 15, 2014). After the Wolverines won the Big Ten regular season by three games, U-M's victory over the Buckeyes helped the Maize and Blue advance to the league's championship game for the second time in program history (1998).
• There have been eight overtime games with U-M holding the lead 6-2. The last time there was an extra period was on Feb. 5, 2013 when the third-ranked Wolverines held on to defeat the No. 10 Buckeyes in a Crisler Center thriller, 76-74. Following a Trey Burke three-pointer with 4:23 to go, U-M did not score again until Glenn Robinson III made one of two free throws with seven seconds left. With U-M up by two, Tim Hardaway Jr. blocked an Aaron Craft coast-to-coast drive to give the Wolverines the victory.
• U-M head coach John Beilein holds an 8-15 record against Ohio State.

With One More ...

• With a victory tonight, Michigan's John Beilein would tie former U-M coach Johnny Orr's mark for the most Big Ten wins by a Michigan coach (120). Beilein is already U-M's all-time wins leader with 267.
• With his expected start against Ohio State, junior guard Zavier Simpson will become the 70th Wolverine to play in 100 career games at Michigan. What is amazing is Simpson has yet to miss a single game, playing in what could be 100 straight games.
• Additionally, Simpson needs one assist to become the 15th Wolverine to reach 300 in a career. The last Wolverine to surpass 300 assists was Derrick Walton Jr., who finished his career with 499 (fourth all-time). Simpson took over the U-M reins from Walton following his graduation in 2017.

20 Games in for the Maize and Blue

• Through 20 games, U-M is averaging 71.7 points per game, more than +15.2 than its opponents (56.5).
• U-M has held its opponents to 70 or fewer points in 19 games, with 13 games of 60 or fewer points scored and five with 50 or fewer points. South Carolina (Dec. 8) remains the only team to surpass 70 points against U-M, scoring 78 in its loss to the Wolverines.
• Michigan has posted five games with 80-plus points this season, including a season-high 89 points in a home win over South Carolina (Dec. 8). U-M is 74-4 under U-M coach John Beilein when scoring 80 or more points.
• U-M is averaging 7.7 three-pointers per game and has recorded eight games with 10-plus, including a season-high 15 vs. George Washington (Nov. 17) in the fourth game of the season, which doubled U-M's season total output on the season from 14 to 29.
• Michigan has shot 50 percent or better from the field in four games, including a season-best 57.4 percent against North Carolina. Overall, U-M is checking in at a 45.8 season percentage.
• U-M has taken its game inside the arc 62 percent of the time and is shooting 53 percent (370-for-704) on two-point field goal attempts. From long range, the Wolverines are 153-for-437 (35.0 percent).
• The Wolverines average 6.5 steals per game and have swiped five or more in 14 games. In fact, U-M has four games with 10-plus in a game, including a season-high 11 at Villanova (Nov. 14).
• U-M has six players with 10 or more steals this season, led by Zavier Simpson (31) and Charles Matthews (25).
• Through 20 games Michigan individuals has combined for 14 20-point games: Ignas Brazdeikis (6), Charles Matthews (4), Jordan Poole (3) and Zavier Simpson (1). Last season, U-M totaled 24 games of 20-plus points in 41 total games.
• Ignas Brazdeikis (95) and Charles Matthews (83) combine for more than half (178, 51%) of U-M's total free throw attempts on the season (352). The next closest Wolverines are Jon Teske (52) and Jordan Poole (47).