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The interstate rivalry picks up where it left off last season when Michigan (10-3, 1-1) and Michigan State (11-3, 3-0) square-off on Sunday at the Breslin Center. Michigan State has won six straight games and is ranked No. 14, while No. 12 Michigan has won back-to-back games. Michigan has lost 16 of its last 19 at the Breslin Center but did post an 82-72 victory there during the 2017-18 season.

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Michigan vs. Michigan State

When: Sunday, January 5

Time: 1:30 p.m. ET

TV: CBS

Live Stream: fuboTV (watch for free)

The big key for Michigan State in this game is Cassius Winston. He was instrumental in the Spartans sweeping the two regular-season games against the Wolverines and the Big Ten tournament title game last season. He averaged 21.3 points and 8.7 assists. He’s putting up those same kinds of numbers this season, with team-highs of 17.8 points and 6.1 assists per game.  Winston had 21 points and six assists Thursday night when Michigan State cruised to a 76-56 victory over Illinois. Xavier Tillman has also been a standout player to begin the season. Against Illinois, he had 19 points, seven rebounds, six assists, and four blocked shots. The 6-foot-7 junior has 10 blocks in his last three games and is shooting 56.7 percent on the season.

Michigan (10-2, 1-1) had two easy wins against overmatched opponents in Presbyterian and UMass Lowell, combining to outscore them 172-104. Before that, the Wolverines faced four of five ranked opponents, splitting the games. The Wolverines cruised to an 86-60 victory over UMass Lowell on Sunday when Jon Teske scored a career-high 25 points on 11-for-14 shooting. 

The 7-foot-1 Teske is averaging a team-high 14.4 points, while shooting 57.7 percent. He is one of four players scoring in double figures for Michigan, including Isaiah Livers (13.4), Eli Brooks (11.5) and Zavier Simpson (11.2).

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Michigan basketball in the 2020s

The big question facing Michigan basketball in the 2020s is not whether the Wolverines will do well. A program which has made two of the past seven national championship games and has a highly popular head coach who himself played in two national title games at Michigan — Juwan Howard — should be able to succeed at a reasonable level. One should see some Sweet 16s and some high NCAA Tournament seeds for Michigan.

The better question is: Will Michigan be able to stay at the top for a long time, with minimal interruption? The best question: How will Howard try to do this?

I ask that last question because as great as John Beilein was and is, the former Michigan head coach was not a conventional college basketball coach. Beilein came to Michigan from West Virginia (and before that, Richmond and Canisius), where he used unorthodox defenses with less-than-overpowering athletes to overachieve.

Yes, Trey Burke was an elite, NBA-level player, but that is an exception, not the rule, to Beilein’s tenure at Michigan. He was still winning games because his defenses were in the right position and his teams limited cheap giveaways to the opposition. When Michigan went to the national title game a second time, in 2018, the Wolverines had only one good shooting game, the regional semifinal against Texas A&M. They shot the cover off the ball in that game, making 14 of 24 threes. It’s easy to win when everything is going well, but Michigan shot poorly on threes in the other four games it played in that NCAA Tournament before the national title game.

Michigan was 5 of 16 on threes against Montana, 8 of 30 against Houston, 4 of 22 against Florida State, and 7 of 28 against Loyola-Chicago in the Final Four. That’s 24 of 96, or 25 percent, but Michigan’s defense answered the bell every time.

Can Michigan maintain that identity under Juwan Howard? Can Michigan improve recruiting to the extent that it can get easy baskets and not endure horrid perimeter shooting performances? We are all interested in whether Michigan maintains a high standard, but how Michigan operates is the mystery which will determine what the Wolverines do in the 2020s.