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On the record
Called Shots →Kenny Noland is listed on Michigan's official 2026-27 men's basketball roster at MGoBlue.com on December 9, 2026, the day Michigan opens Big Ten play at Rutgers. Scored off the roster page as it stands that day.
Roddy Gayle Jr. is listed on Michigan's official 2026-27 men's basketball roster at MGoBlue.com on October 11, 2026, the day of Michigan's first exhibition against Eastern Michigan.
Kenny Noland plays more minutes than Ricky Liburd in Michigan's November 2, 2026 season opener against Oakland, as listed on the official Michigan box score for that game. A player who does not appear is scored at zero minutes.
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Liburd started both exhibitions. Noland got the minutes in the close one
Michigan beat Oregon State 98-93 in an exhibition at Crisler Center on October 16, after beating Eastern Michigan 87-62 on October 11. The official box scores list the same five starters both times: Elliot Cadeau, Trey McKenney, Ricky Liburd, J.P. Estrella and Moustapha Thiam. Kenny Noland came off the bench in both games and played 14 and 25 minutes; Liburd played 11 and 15. Against Oregon State, McKenney fouled out, Cadeau finished with four fouls, and eight Michigan players took 185 of the 200 minutes. Joseph Hartman played 18 minutes on October 11 and 7 on October 16. Roddy Gayle Jr. has not played in either exhibition while Michigan waits on an amendment to his court order. The Tenth Circuit heard argument in Wisne v. NCAA on October 13 and did not say when it would rule. Michigan plays Houston in Grand Rapids on October 25 and opens against Oakland on November 2.
Michigan's fifth starter had never played a minute for Michigan
Michigan beat Eastern Michigan 87-62 in an exhibition at Crisler Center on October 11. The official box score lists Elliot Cadeau, Trey McKenney, Ricky Liburd, J.P. Estrella and Moustapha Thiam as starters. Liburd, a sophomore guard who did not appear in a game in 2025-26 and did not play on the August tour, had 2 points and 3 rebounds in 11 minutes. Roddy Gayle Jr. did not play; Mike Boynton Jr. said his injunction order did not address his participation in Summer League and that Michigan hopes for an amendment within days. Kenny Noland, whose Indiana order does carry that wording, played 14 minutes off the bench. Quinn Costello scored 16 in 24 minutes and Joseph Hartman 10 in 18. Michigan plays Oregon State in its second exhibition on October 16.
Noland's judge would not pause her own order, so the NCAA has one court left
Monroe Circuit Court Judge Kara E. Krothe denied the NCAA's emergency motion to stay her September 23 preliminary injunction on October 5, finding the NCAA unlikely to win on appeal. Kenny Noland is one of the 97 plaintiffs that injunction covers. The NCAA's remaining stay request is in the Indiana Court of Appeals, where the players' response was due October 8 and no ruling had been reported by Saturday. Michigan's roster still lists seventeen players, Gayle and Noland among them, and both are expected to play in Sunday's exhibition against Eastern Michigan. Kyle Church singled out Gayle on Michigan's own podcast, and the fifth starting spot now has more candidates than it had in August.
Michigan lists 17 against a limit of 15. Last season it listed 16.
Michigan's official 2026-27 men's basketball roster now lists seventeen players, including Roddy Gayle Jr. and Kenny Noland, who are both eligible under court injunctions. The NCAA's roster limit for men's basketball at House settlement schools is fifteen. Bylaw 17.2 exempts designated student-athletes and players with a medically documented season-ending injury before the roster submission date, and Michigan's roster page for its 2025-26 title season listed sixteen. Michigan has made no statement. The roster that counts is due the day before the November 2 opener against Oakland.
Two guards won in court this week, and Michigan's roster still says fifteen
Roddy Gayle Jr. won a preliminary injunction against the NCAA from the bench in Niagara County Supreme Court on September 24, with a proposed written order due within thirty days. Kenny Noland won one in Monroe Circuit Court in Indiana the day before, and the NCAA filed an emergency motion to stay it and a notice of appeal within a day. Michigan's official 2026-27 roster still lists fifteen players, which is the roster limit, and neither guard is on it. Michigan opens its exhibition schedule against Eastern Michigan on October 11 and the season against Oakland on November 2.
Michigan's roster is full at fifteen, and the two guards it wants are outside it
Michigan's official 2026-27 roster listed fifteen players on Saturday morning. The cumulative statistics sheet from the European tour lists the same fifteen. Kenny Noland, the Columbia transfer Michigan signed on August 19, is on neither, and neither is Roddy Gayle Jr., who has held a temporary restraining order since September 2. The Niagara County docket carried no decision on Gayle's injunction motion as of Saturday morning, two days after the hearing was scheduled.