
Fresh off a 75–72 home victory in Ann Arbor over No. 5 Nebraska earlier this week, the third-ranked Michigan Wolverines traveled to East Lansing to take on archrival No. 7 Michigan State.
Wolverines head coach Dusty May entered the Breslin Center looking extremely relaxed during pregame warmups, despite hearing plenty of jeers and trash talk from the Spartans students already in attendance.