Good morning, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Happy Friday, everybody.

TGIF.

It is Friday, February 20th, 2026.

This is the Michigan insider.

This is the Big 1050 WTKA online at the big 1050.com.

After another stressful day of hockey yesterday, we've got more hockey that's probably going to be stressful later on today, both Team USA style and Michigan style. And of course, Michigan hockey kicks off a busy maze and blue weekend. Looking forward to a very fun maze and blue weekend, although this is the first time in a minute that our games have not been here.

They've been elsewhere, so we're going to watch them on TV.

But we'll be discussing, of course, Michigan men's basketball.

The number one ranked Wolverines are going to be in D.C. later today for their matchup tomorrow against number three Duke.

The Michigan Wolverines are, so they're seventh time as the number one team in the country that they're facing a top five team.

Amazingly enough, three of the six, actually I guess three of the seven now are just the fourth.

That's the third of the seven that is against Duke.

They played Duke in December of 1964 down in Durham and Michigan won.

That one is the number one team in the country over the number five team in the country.

They also played Duke back in December 5th of 1992.

That game was down in Durham and Michigan was number one and Duke was number four.

And Michigan lost that one,

7968.

And now there's this matchup coming up tomorrow night at 630 in Washington, D.C., number one,

Michigan versus number three Duke.

Michigan is playing, as I said, this is their seventh time as a number one team in the country.

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