Michigan is likley going to be the No. 1 ranked team in the nation after a dominant win over UCLA this past weekend. Arizona entered the week ranked first, but two losses should send the Wolverines up to the pole position, but things aren’t going to be easy for Michigan this week — the Wolverines will have to earn that ranking.
Michigan will head to Purdue for a big-time Tuesday matchup with the Boilermakers, before playing a non-conference game against Duke on Saturday. The Wolverines have just one loss this season, and on Monday, head coach Dusty May talked about last year’s 91-64 loss at Purdue.
“We learned from it, and it was one of the moments that we learned from and stuck in our minds,” May said of last year’s loss to the Boilermakers. “And to be honest, even now, I told the staff watching these games, watching Purdue play Nebraska, or watching Michigan State play whoever, UCLA, watching those games, I said we need to really now take inventory of how difficult it is to play in these games.
“As we’re recruiting, really try to separate how good of a shooter he is and his dimensions and say can we see him competing at this level in this environment, because we want to be doing this every year. And so these games, yes, it helped us tremendously last year, and it obviously helped that they were a top five team, and I think we had immediate results from what we learned from that game…