Michigan
Rutgers
Wolverines to Open February With Trip to Rutgers
1/30/2025 12:16:00 PM | Men's Basketball
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Opening February play, the University of Michigan men's basketball team (15-5, 7-2 Big Ten) heads to Piscataway, N.J., to face Rutgers on Saturday (Feb. 1) at Jersey Mike's Arena in the first of two meetings with the Scarlet Knights (11-10, 4-6 Big Ten). The game is scheduled for a 3:30 p.m. tip, and the contest will be broadcast live on Fox.
Notes
• After 14 straight wins against Rutgers, Michigan has lost its last three and four of its last six to the Scarlet Knights. Overall, U-M is 16-4 in the all-time series. Saturday's game marks the first of two between Michigan and Rutgers.
• Tre Donaldson's 7-0 run -- a mid-range jumper, a three-pointer, and a pair of free throws with four seconds left -- helped the Wolverines complete a dramatic comeback over the final 1:45 to defeat Penn State. With a career-best eight field goals, Donaldson finished with a career-best 21 points -- his second 20-plus point game of the season and his career. He also tied career highs with seven assists (no turnovers) and four steals.
• All five U-M starters average double figures in scoring -- Vladislav Goldin (15.7 points), Donaldson (12.9), Danny Wolf (12.0), Roddy Gayle Jr. (11.6) and Nimari Burnett (10.7). The five have led the Wolverines in scoring in every game this season -- Goldin (nine times), Wolf (four), Burnett (three), Gayle Jr. (three) and Donaldson (two).
• Michigan has 12 games with 10 three-pointers or more and is shooting 37.0 percent. Burnett (40) and Donaldson (39) lead U-M from long range. The duo has 79 of U-M's 193 three-pointers (40 percent).
• U-M is shooting 49.9 percent from the field, which ranks second in the Big Ten and ninth nationally. Goldin's 63.5 percentage ranks eighth nationally and third in the Big Ten; he trails Indiana's Oumar Ballo (64.7) and Iowa's Owen Freeman (63.8).
• With 17 games of 15-plus assists, and six of 20-plus, U-M's 17.9 per-game average is third in the Big Ten and 12th nationally. Donaldson leads U-M with 85 assists (4.3 apg).
• With 11 double-digit rebounding games (9.8 rpg), Wolf ranks 18th nationally and second in the Big Ten behind Ballo (10.2 rpg). Adding his eight double-doubles, Wolf is second in the Big Ten behind Northwestern's Brooks Barnhizer and Maryland's Julian Reese (nine each).
