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Wolverines to Open May Era Hosting Cleveland State
11/1/2024 3:10:00 PM | Men's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's basketball teams opens the 2024-25 regular season and the Dusty May era against Cleveland State on Monday (Nov. 4) at Crisler Center. Tipoff is scheduled for 8 p.m., and the game will be broadcast live on Big Ten Network.
Notes
• A new era for Michigan men's basketball began with the hiring of Dusty May as the 18th head coach in program history. Despite a pair of charity exhibitions, U-M's game with Cleveland State will be May's first official game for the Maize and Blue after a pair of exhibitions against Oakland (Oct. 20) and Toledo (Oct. 25).
• Michigan defeated Oakland 92-48 and Toledo 96-92 in charity exhibitions, which benefitted Forgotten Harvest and C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, respectively.
• With a pair of 90-plus point games, U-M averaged 94 points. The Wolverines shot 48.2 percent (66-for-137) from the field and 42.1 percent (24-for-57) from long range. Overall, six Wolverines averaged in double figures -- Roddy Gayle Jr. (16.5), L.J. Cason (14.0), Will Tschetter (13.5), Vladislav Goldin (12.0), Sam Walters (11.5) and Danny Wolf (10.0). Wolf added 10 rebounds. He had 11 points and 13 rebounds against Oakland and nine and seven against Toledo.
• Tre Donaldson was the leading facilitator for the Maize and Blue, recording six assists vs. Oakland and five against Toledo. Four other Wolverines had five-plus assists in the two games -- Rubin Jones (six), and Gayle, Wolf and Nimari Burnett each had five.
• With a 21-15 record last season, Cleveland State made it three straight seasons with 20-plus wins. CSU has won the Horizon League regular season twice in four years (2021, '22) and was the runner-up in 2023. The Vikings have advanced to four straight Horizon Tournament semifinals, winning the championship in 2021 and falling short in 2023.
• Cleveland State lost leading scorer and All-Horizon League first-team forward Tristan Enaruna (19.6 ppg, 6.5 rpg) to the NBA. CSU lost four total starters and will be without two of their other top offensive players from a year ago -- Tre Williams (12.8 ppg, 6.0 rpg) and Drew Lowder (11.4 ppg, 2.9 apg).
• In the first meeting in 12 years, Michigan holds a 9-0 record against Cleveland State in the all-time series. The last matchup was in the 2012 NIT Season Tipoff in Ann Arbor, a 77-47 win for the Maize and Blue. U-M has six additional home wins and won both games at CSU. U-M's 80-61 victory at Cleveland State's Henry J. Goodman Arena (Dec. 7, 1991) was the Vikings largest home crowd in school history (13,055).
• Cleveland State assistant coach Jay Shunnar has many ties to Michigan. He is an Ann Arbor native and 2014 Michigan graduate. Locally, he coached at Skyline and Huron High Schools before becoming a grad assistant (Michigan) in 2018 and a special assistant (Cleveland Cavaliers) in 2019 under former U-M coach John Beilein.
