Michigan's Yaxel Lendeborg is The Associated Press men’s college basketball player of the week for Week 4 of the regular season.

It’s gameday for the No. 7-ranked Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team, which will take on Wake Forest inside Little Caesars Arena.

The No. 7-ranked Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team is heading into a physical matchup against Wake Forest inside Little Caesars Arena, with Yaxel Lendeborg playing with one hand.

The No. 7-ranked Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball program set a program record for most points in the first half, leading the Oakland Golden Grizzlies 69-38 at the break.

The Michigan Wolverines men’s basketball team will open the 2025-26 regular season by raising its 2025 Big Ten Tournament championship banner before hosting the Oakland Golden Grizzlies inside Crisler Center.

Oakland University athletic director Steve Waterfield presented Keisha Newell with a Golden Grizzlies jersey to a round of applause, a ceremonial gesture the likes of which the OU Credit Union O’rena hadn’t seen in more than a decade before Friday morning.

Greg Kampe, the head coach of Oakland University’s men’s basketball team, recently joined me on Sports Final Edition to discuss the 2025 NCAA Tournament bracket.

The No. 14-ranked Oakland Golden Grizzlies get their first win ever in the round of 64 after pulling off the ultimate upset by taking down the No. 3-ranked Kentucky Wildcats 80-76 to advance to the round of 32.

(Photo by Dave Reginek/Getty Images)ROCHESTER, Mich. – Oakland University basketball coach Greg Kampe is the latest prominent figure to call for Michigan high school sports to resume. “I ask that the latest order be reconsidered and high school athletics (be) reinstated immediately,” Kampe wrote. Michigan high school contact sports ban: What Whitmer said about possibility of resumingKampe, 65, has been a constant in the state’s basketball scene for decades. “They lose the year and the benefits of sport -- team building, memories, physical activity, learning how to win and lose,” Kampe wrote. “Please take a step back and remember that radical statements and radical ideas at a time of crisis never turn out well,” Kampe wrote.

DETROIT – If you’re a professional basketball fan, it can be fun or frustrating to see a former member of the Detroit Pistons playing in the NBA finals. Michigan and Oakland basketball fans already know Duncan Robinson and Kendrick Nunn. Now, thanks to the NBA Finals, so does the rest of the world. “When your’e a basketball player or grew up playing, you laid in bed at night dreaming of playing in the NBA Finals,” Kampe said. That was the gist of the tests.”Former Detroit Pistons first-round pick Kentavious Caldwell-Pope is also playing in the Finals, for the Los Angeles Lakers.