Michigan basketball to face Florida in 2023 Jumpman Invitational
The second annual 2023 Jumpman Invitational matchups are set, per CBS Sports insider Jon Rothstein. Michigan Wolverines basketball will take on the Florida Gators this December at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte. North Carolina and Oklahoma is the other game. Official dates are TBD.
Michigan lost to North Carolina, 80-76, in last December’s inaugural event in front of a pro-Tar Heel crowd. Oklahoma took down Florida, 62-53.
Michigan and Florida have played four times in history, including three games in the NCAA Tournament. The most recent matchup came in the round of 32 of the 2019 tournament, with Michigan winning 64-49 in Des Moines. Prior to that, the Wolverines and Gators did battle in the 2013 Elite Eight, when Michigan won in blowout fashion, 79-59, to advance to the Final Four. Michigan led by 25 points with 1:10 remaining. Florida got the better of the Maize and Blue in a neutral floor game in Miami Dec. 27, 1998 by a score of 79-63, and Michigan won, 108-85, in the second round of the 1988 NCAA Tournament.
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Neither Michigan nor Florida made the NCAA Tournament this past season. The Wolverines, who have won 23 NCAA Tournament games since 2013, missed the Big Dance for the first time since 2016. The Gators, meanwhile, last appeared in the NCAA Tournament in 2020-21, when it was a No. 7 seed and lost to Oral Roberts in the second round.
Last season was Florida’s first under head coach Todd Golden, who previously led San Francisco from 2019-22. His Dons went to the NCAA Tournament once, losing to Murray State in the 2022 first round.
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Former Michigan forward Colin Castleton transferred to Florida after the 2019-20 season and played three seasons in Gainseville. The 6-foot-11, 250-pounder was a three-time All-SEC performer and the league’s defensive player of the year (per USA Today) this past season.
Michigan’s 2023-24 schedule is still being worked on, but one other event is known. The Wolverines will partake in the Battle 4 Atlantis in November, along with North Carolina, Villanova, Arkansas, Memphis, Texas Tech, Stanford and Northern Iowa. Michigan won the tournament in 2019, at the beginning of head coach Juwan Howard‘s first season at the helm, beating Iowa State, North Carolina and Gonzaga.
The Maize and Blue may play at Kentucky. The two teams played in London last December (the Wildcats won, 73-69) and still have to put a previously agreed to home-and-home series on the books. Kentucky leads the series with Michigan, 6-2.
