The Michigan men’s basketball team returned to the floor on Friday night for the most anticipated season for the program in the past half-decade.

The Wolverines played the Cincinnati Bearcats in their first exhibition game of the season. This wa the first time Michigan and Cincinnati played each other in 33 years, with the Wolverines holding a 3-1 advantage in the all-time series. The last matchup came in the 1992 NCAA Final Four in Minneapolis, where U-M earned a 76-72 victory to advance to the National Championship.

Michigan looked sloppy offensively, with double-digit turnovers in the first 16 game minutes putting the Wolverines in a 15-point hole that ballooned up to 20 before the first half was over. A Yaxel Lendeborg takeover cut into that lead in the second half, and some big thre

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