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Wolverines to Close Week With Road Battle at Maryland
12/11/2025 10:09:00 AM | Men's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The second-ranked University of Michigan men's basketball team (9-0, 1-0 Big Ten) hits the road Saturday (Dec. 13) for an early-December conference matchup at Maryland (6-4, 0-1 Big Ten) inside the Xfinity Center. Tipoff is set for 8 p.m. on Fox, with Tim Brando and Jim Jackson on the call.
Notes
• Michigan and Maryland meet for the 25th time in the all-time series. U-M holds a 14-10 advantage in the all-time series and is 11-7 against the Terrapins since they joined the Big Ten in 2014. The Wolverines snapped a three-game skid with their dramatic 81-80 win in the 2025 Big Ten Tournament semifinal.
• Michigan is 4-7 in College Park and has split the last six games at the Xfinity Center, though the Wolverines have dropped the last two: 64-58 (Jan. 9, 2023) and 64-57 (Jan. 11, 2024). U-M's last win was an 84-73 victory on Dec. 31, 2020.
• The Wolverines' 9-0 start to the season is their best since 2020-21, when U-M began 11-0 en route to a Big Ten title and Elite Eight run.
• Michigan has won six straight games by 25 points or more, including three by 40+ and two against top-25 opponents. Per Associated Press research, no team has produced a six-game streak of 25+ point wins with multiple ranked victories in a season since at least 1995-96 -- the full extent of available data.
• Michigan has topped 40 rebounds in every game, including three 50+ performances and a season-high 53 vs. Villanova. U-M ranks third nationally in rebounds per game (46.5) and leads the nation in defensive boards (34.6).
• Michigan's frontcourt trio of Yaxel Lendeborg, Morez Johnson Jr. and Aday Mara has contributed over 40 percent of U-M's scoring. The group combines for 38.0 points per game -- Lendeborg (15.0), Johnson (13.4) and Mara (9.6) -- powering an offense averaging 94.0 points.
• Over his last four games, Johnson has shot 79.3 percent (23-for-29) from the field, including making the first two three-pointers of his career against Rutgers. Overall, he leads the Big Ten and ranks eighth nationally, at 68.1 percent.
• Mara leads U-M with 25 blocks (2.78 bpg), ranking ninth nationally. He has at least one block in every game and multiple blocks in seven. He also leads U-M with 8.9 rebounds per game. Mara has seven games of eight-plus and a team-best four of 10-plus, including a career-best 13 vs. Wake Forest.
• Elliot Cadeau, who leads U-M with 5.7 assists per game, has 26 assists over his last three contests and a 30:7 assist-to-turnover ratio across his last five games -- a dramatic turnaround after committing 14 turnovers in his first four outings.
• U-M's Sixth Man, Roddy Gayle Jr., has shot 56.1 percent and quietly has produced six double-figure games while averaging 11.0 per contest.
• Trey McKenney leads U-M with 20 threes while averaging 11.1 points per game.
• Michigan has balanced its rotation as seven Wolverines are averaging between 18-22 minutes per game. Lendeborg leads U-M with 27.0 per game.
