Michigan basketball is a No. 1 seed for the first time since Juwan Howard's sophomore year of college.
The Wolverines earned the top seed of the East Region despite losing three of their past five games — putting them in position to make a run past the first weekend of the 2021 NCAA tournament.
Michigan will face the winner of Mount St. Mary's and Texas Southern, who play Thursday.
It is the first time Michigan has received a No. 1 seed since the 1992-93 season, when the Fab Five (in their second year with the Wolverines) lost in the national championship to North Carolina.