Crisler holds thirteen thousand and the rotation is eight men deep, which makes college basketball the most legible sport on this site. Lineups, minutes, and what the tape actually shows.
When he files: Weekly from November, dormant until the season opens.
8 calls resolved. Too few for a hit rate to mean anything, so there is not one.
No Michigan player averages 2.0 or more blocked shots per game in the 2026-27 regular season, after Aday Mara averaged 2.6 in 2025-26.
Resolves by Mar 15, 2027
The piece that made itMichigan Won A Title With Its Big Men And Flies To Lithuania Without ThemKenny 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.
Resolves by Dec 9, 2026
The piece that made itMichigan's roster is full at fifteen, and the two guards it wants are outside itRoddy Gayle Jr. is not listed on Michigan's official 2026-27 men's basketball roster at MGoBlue.com on November 3, 2026.
The piece that made itMichigan's Backup Point Guard Is A Pending Motion In DenverThe Tenth Circuit does not decide the merits of the NCAA's appeal in Wisne v. NCAA before Michigan's November 3 season opener, leaving the August 21 stay as the rule that governs who is eligible on opening night.
The piece that made itMichigan Landed In Lithuania And Lost Its Fifth-Year Guard The Same DayJoseph Hartman is in Michigan's starting five for its November 3, 2026 season opener against Oakland, as listed on the official Michigan box score for that game.
The piece that made itMichigan Has Sixty-Six Days And One Sentence About Brandon McCoyRoddy Gayle Jr.'s motion for a preliminary injunction against the NCAA in Niagara County Supreme Court is denied.
The piece that made itThe NCAA Has Asked Niagara County To Dissolve The Order That Makes Roddy Gayle EligibleRoddy 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.
The piece that made itTwo guards won in court this week, and Michigan's roster still says fifteenRoddy Gayle Jr. is one of Michigan's five starters in its November 2, 2026 season opener against Oakland, as listed on the official Michigan box score for that game.
The piece that made itNoland's judge would not pause her own order, so the NCAA has one court leftKenny 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.
The piece that made itLiburd started both exhibitions. Noland got the minutes in the close oneKenny Noland plays 15 or more minutes in each of Michigan's first two regular-season games of 2026-27, against Oakland on November 2 and UConn on November 6, 2026, as listed on Michigan's official box scores. A game he does not appear in scores as zero minutes and the row loses.
The piece that made itGayle's return cost Liburd the start. Noland kept his minutes
UConn beat Michigan 85-77 at TD Garden on November 6. Michigan out-rebounded UConn 35-33, held it to nine offensive rebounds and scored four more points from the field, 59 to 55. UConn made 30 of 36 free throws and Michigan made 18 of 23. Elliot Cadeau fouled out with 2:16 left and Moustapha Thiam had four fouls in 15 minutes. Kenny Noland, the guard Mike Boynton named as cover for Cadeau's foul trouble, played six minutes. Michigan plays Marquette on Wednesday, November 11.
Roddy Gayle Jr. started Michigan's 83-66 exhibition loss to 10th-ranked Houston on October 25, his first game since being cleared for a fifth season, and played a team-high 30 minutes; Ricky Liburd, who started the first two exhibitions, played 14 off the bench. Kenny Noland played 19 and finished the exhibitions with 58 minutes to Liburd's 40 before Michigan opens against Oakland at Crisler on Monday, November 2, and plays UConn on Friday, November 6.
The Indiana Court of Appeals denied the NCAA's emergency motion to stay the Monroe Circuit Court injunction that makes Kenny Noland and dozens of other athletes eligible on October 16, in an order by Judge Elizabeth Tavitas with Judges Bradford, Kenworthy and DeBoer concurring. On October 20 the NCAA filed a verified motion to shorten time and for an expedited briefing schedule in the appeal, NCAA v. Daley, 26A-PL-02703, and the players filed an objection on October 22. No ruling on that motion appears on the docket, and no transfer petition to the Indiana Supreme Court has been filed since the court denied an emergency one on October 1. Michigan plays 10th-ranked Houston in an exhibition at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids on Sunday, October 25, at 1 p.m. Eastern, and opens against Oakland at Crisler Center on November 2. At media day on October 22, Mike Boynton Jr. said he expected Roddy Gayle Jr. to start with Elliot Cadeau, Trey McKenney, J.P. Estrella and Moustapha Thiam, with Ricky Liburd, Quinn Costello and Oscar Goodman in the next group, and said Joseph Hartman would miss probably a couple of weeks with a shoulder injury.
Roddy Gayle Jr.'s lawyers asked Niagara County Supreme Court on Wednesday, October 21, to amend his preliminary injunction so that it covers his 2026 NBA Summer League participation, and on Thursday, October 22, he was granted a temporary restraining order, per The Detroit News. The order bars the NCAA from declaring him ineligible on the basis of his Summer League participation, his $1,700 Summer League stipend or his agent agreement. The September 24 injunction did not address Summer League, and Gayle sat out exhibitions against Eastern Michigan on October 11 and Oregon State on October 16. Mike Boynton Jr. said at media day that he expects to see Gayle against Houston on Sunday, October 25, in Grand Rapids. The motion to amend the injunction is still pending, and the NCAA can still appeal.
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.
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'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.
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 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.
The NCAA answered Roddy Gayle Jr. on September 9 with a memorandum of law asking Niagara County Supreme Court to deny his preliminary injunction and vacate the September 2 temporary restraining order. Its case is built on New York law rather than on basketball: Martin v. Curran, a 1972 Monroe County decision holding that an athlete derives no rights from an association's bylaws, and the argument that Education Law section 6438-c creates no private right of action. The same day, a federal judge in West Virginia denied fourteen Class of 2022 athletes the same relief, but on a West Virginia statute New York does not have. Gayle's reply brief is due September 14 and the hearing is September 17. Michigan's published roster is still fifteen players and still does not include him.
Roddy Gayle Jr. sued the NCAA in Niagara County Supreme Court on August 31 and won a temporary restraining order on September 2, twelve days after the Tenth Circuit took away the class ruling that had made him eligible. The order bars the NCAA from declaring him ineligible and from punishing Michigan for playing him, and it runs until a preliminary injunction hearing on September 17 at 2 p.m. Michigan announced its non-conference schedule on September 4: three exhibitions in October and an opener against Oakland on November 2. Its published 2026-27 roster lists fifteen players, which is the roster limit, and Gayle is not one of them.
Brandon McCoy Jr. started all three of Michigan's European exhibitions and played one minute of the third, leaving the floor twenty seconds into the August 27 win over Mega Superbet in Igalo, Montenegro. Michigan's only public word is that he will continue to be evaluated, and its own game recap names seven Wolverines without naming him. He had 62 of Michigan's 600 tour player-minutes and 9 of its 30 steals. The opener against Oakland is 66 days from the day the team flew home.
A three-judge panel froze Judge Sweeney's July 31 injunction on August 21, the day Michigan arrived in Lithuania, and the NCAA's chief legal officer says class members declared eligible under it are no longer eligible. At Michigan that is Roddy Gayle Jr., who played 39 of 40 games last season at 21.1 minutes a night. The three exhibitions starting August 23 are now the entire audition for the minutes behind Elliot Cadeau, and the merits appeal has no public argument date.
Michigan's championship frontcourt never missed a game: three men, 40 appearances each, 78.7 minutes a night between them. Its replacement is Moustapha Thiam, J.P. Estrella and Jalen Reed, and Reed has played 14 of LSU's last 64 games. The plane leaves in six days, the first exhibition is in eight, and the opener against Oakland is 80 days out.
Roddy Gayle Jr. played 21.1 minutes a night in 39 of Michigan's 40 games last season. A Colorado injunction gave him a fifth year on July 31, a clarification on August 2 took away his ability to transfer, and the NCAA appealed on August 3. Michigan is the only door he can walk through, and Michigan boards a plane for Lithuania on August 21.