The college basketball season is just on the horizon, which means our preview coverage ahead of the 2025-26 season is coming to a close. Before the season tips off, here are five bold predictions for the Michigan Wolverines.

Lendeborg has gotten a lot of preseason hype, and it wouldn’t exactly be a bold prediction to say he’s going to be named to an All-Big Ten team since he was named to the preseason team. I do think he’ll challenge Braden Smith for Big Ten Player of the Year, but I’m not super confident he’ll win considering how good Purdue is supposed to be this season.

Let’s go a different route with Lendeborg — his career-high was 30 points against East Carolina last season, and he topped that in the exhibition loss to Cincinnati with 31. It wouldn’t be bold to say he’ll top his car

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