See Michigan basketball’s 2024-25 Big Ten schedule, Dusty May’s first trip to East Lansing

There may be a top-20 showdown on the gridiron in Ann Arbor this weekend between No. 12 USC and No. 17 Michigan, but ever so slowly, basketball season is arriving.

With just over a month until Michigan basketball opens its season with an exhibition against Oakland on Oct. 20, the Big Ten revealed its conference schedule in its entirety Thursday afternoon. The Wolverines have known for months which teams they will see once or twice, home or away, but now they know the order of operations for their first season under Dusty May.

Among the highlights, May and company will head to East Lansing on March 9 to square off with Tom Izzo and Michigan State in the final game of the season; the Spartans’ trip to Crisler Center is roughly two weeks before, on Feb. 21.

The Wolverines will also make it a double-dip when they stop in Los Angeles to face a pair of conference newcomers in USC (Jan. 4) and UCLA (Jan. 7), meaning the Wolverines will make just one trip to the West Coast to face the new Big Ten teams as they play Washington (Jan. 12) and Oregon (Feb. 5) at home.

With the 18-team league and a 20-game conference slate, every team will play the other 17 teams at least once, with three teams meeting both home and away.

For Michigan, the home-and-away opponents are Michigan State, Rutgers and Purdue, last year’s national runner-up.

Few teams in the country have experienced as much turnaround as Michigan since last March when it wrapped up the worst season in program history (8-24, 3-17 Big Ten). Athletic Director Warde Manuel relieved Juwan Howard of his duties, then hired May, who in-turn brought in an entirely new staff from top to bottom.

They also got to work on the roster. The only holdovers from last year’s team? Graduate wing Nimari Burnett, senior forward Will Tschetter and graduate forward Jace Howard, son of the former coach.

Outside of that, Michigan brought in a host of transfers from all over the country, such as point guard Tre Donaldson (Auburn), shooting guard Roddy Gayle Jr. (Ohio State), wing Rubin Jones (North Texas), shooting forward Sam Walters (Alabama), power forward Danny Wolf (Yale) and center Vlad Goldin (Flordia Atlantic) who came with May from Boca Raton.

Michigan also has a trio of freshmen guards all looking to crack the rotation as well; Michigan’s Mr. Basketball Durral “Phat Phat” Brooks, former FAU commit Lorenzo Cason and Sierra Canyon standout Justin Pippen, son of Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen.

Michigan basketball 2024-25 schedule

Oct. 20: Oakland (exhibition at Little Caesars Arena, Detroit).

Nov. 4: Cleveland State.

Nov. 10: Wake Forest (in Greensboro, North Carolina).

Nov. 15: TCU.

Nov. 18: Miami (Ohio).

Nov. 21: Tarleton State.

Nov. 25: Virginia Tech (in Fort Myers, Florida).

Nov. 27: South Carolina or Xavier (in Fort Myers, Florida).

Dec. 3: at Wisconsin

Dec. 7: Iowa.

Dec. 10: Arkansas (at Madison Square Garden, New York).

Dec. 18: Oklahoma (in Jumpman Invitational in Charlotte, North Carolina).

Dec. 22: Purdue Fort Wayne.

Dec. 29: Western Kentucky.

Jan. 4: at USC.

Jan. 7: at UCLA.

Jan. 12: Washington.

Jan. 16: at Minnesota.

Jan. 19: Northwestern.

Jan. 24: at Purdue.

Jan. 27: Penn State.

Feb. 1: at Rutgers.

Feb. 5: Oregon.

Feb. 8: at Indiana.

Feb. 11: Purdue.

Feb. 16: at Ohio State.

Feb. 21: Michigan State.

Feb. 24: at Nebraska.

Feb. 27: Rutgers.

March 2: Illinois.

March 5: Maryland.

March 9: at Michigan State.

This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Michigan basketball Big Ten schedule: See when Dusty May plays MSU