Jon Rothstein tweeted it and Ben Steele of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel confirmed it, so it’s as real as it can get: Marquette men’s basketball will start a home-and-home series with Michigan next season.
The 2026-27 season game will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan, while the 2027-28 season game will be in Milwaukee.
The contracts are not completely done and final right now, so the dates are not officially locked in yet according to Steele and his athletic department sources. Still, this is the only non-conference game on the Marquette schedule for either season so far, other than the not-technically-officially-locked-in series with Wisconsin, so it’s good to see things moving in a positive direction there.
The history of Marquette’s series against Michigan dates back to 1941, when MU picked up a 49-42 win in Milwaukee in the first ever meeting. The two teams met fairly regularly up through 1954, but things slowed down after that, and they have played just five times since 1980 and just twice since the turn of the century. Next season’s game in Ann Arbor will be the first on-campus game in the series since an 89-81 Michigan home win in December of 1990. Marquette won the second most recent meeting in 2009, 79-65, over the #15 ranked Wolverines as part of the Walt Disney World Thanksgiving tournament, while UM won the most recent meeting, 79-61, in November 2016. That game was played in Marquette’s very inexplicable gray uniforms.
Awful.
Anyway, that game tipped the all time series to 14-6 favoring Michigan.
The Wolverines are probably going to be good for both of these two games. Head coach Dusty May is wrapping up his second season in charge in Ann Arbor, and he has a record of 56-12 so far. Michigan is currently 29-2 this season and riding a four game winning streak heading into the Big Ten tournament this week, presumably to put the finishing touches on a #1 seed in the NCAA tournament. UM will presumably lose Yaxel Lendeborg and Nimari Burnett from their starting lineup, as they are both listed as seniors, but Elliott Cadeau, Morez Johnson, and Aday Mara can all be projected to return and start again for the Wolverines next season.
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