Michigan, TCU set up home-and-home series beginning 2024-25 season

Nonconference matchups are being scheduled all across college basketball, with some intriguing home-and-home series taking place. Another one was announced on Thursday, with the Michigan Wolverines and TCU Horned Frogs agreeing to play the next two seasons.

Ann Arbor will host the 2024-25 game, already scheduled for Nov. 15. The Wolverines will then head to Cow Town at some point during the 2025-26 season.

“The Wolverines have set up a home-and-home series with @TCUBasketball,” the official Michigan Men’s Basketball X account said. “The first game will be in A2 (Nov. 15) followed by a return game in Fort Worth, Texas, next season.”

TCU’s announcement was a little simpler, adding a graphic to go along with the tweet.

heading to Ann Arbor this season

2024 | TCU at Michigan
2025 | Michigan at TCU#GoFrogs pic.twitter.com/vF9Cd7mDb5

— TCU Men's Basketball (@TCUBasketball) June 13, 2024

Maybe flashbacks to an old College Football Playoff semifinal matchup, some revenge in store for Michigan fans set to attend. TCU will be hoping to recreate what may have been the biggest football win in program history at the Fiesta Bowl.

Michigan, TCU setting up for interesting 2024-25 matchup

Jamie Dixon and Dusty May will be the two head coaches going up against one another, having two different levels of experience at their respective schools.

TCU hired Dixon back in 2016 as he enters his ninth season with the program. The Horned Frogs took a while to get going but have now made three consecutive NCAA Tournaments. While they have not made it out of the first weekend quite yet, Dixon has brought consistency to Fort Worth.

May is the new kid on the block in the Big Ten, being hired by Michigan this offseason after the Wolverines let go of Juwan Howard. Having an immense amount of success at FAU made him one of the hottest coaching candidates out there. Folks in Ann Arbor have to be happy having May on their side.

And as Jon Rothstein has pointed out, May has not been afraid to schedule a tough nonconference in his first season in charge. Alongside TCU, Michigan will play Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wake Forest, and then an MTE that includes South Carolina, Virginia Tech, and Xavier.

The exact type of schedule to position Michigan to make the NCAA Tournament, hopefully breaking a two-year drought — something that has not happened since the first season of John Beilein in 2007-08.

At the time of posting, On3’s James Fletcher does not have either Michigan or TCU listed in his way-too-early top 25 rankings.