Michigan basketball defeated Big Ten rival Michigan State for its second top-10 win of the week. Here are the highlights.

Michigan basketball freshman guard Winters Grady has likely played his final minutes in the 2025-26 season due to injury.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Go figure, a top-five matchup that lived up to its billing. And Michigan came out on top. The No. 3-ranked Wolverines went wire to wire with unbeaten Nebraska on Tuesday night, trailing for most of the game before a late flurry sparked a 75-72 victory at Crisler Center.

The Wolverines make the short trip to East Lansing to take on the Spartans in a renewal of one of the sport’s rivalries.

Just trying to come along and be the best team that we can be,” Michigan basketball star Yaxel Lendeborg said. "We want to make a deep run in March."

Michigan basketball forward Quinn Costello, the Wolverines’ top recruit in their 2026 signing class, earned a prestigious honor this week. Costello, who signed with Michigan in November, was named one of 24 McDonald’s boys high school All-Americans by the fast-food giant on Monday.