
The team was a top-10 preseason selection, according to the vast majority of preseason rankings, and many media outlets selected McGary as a preseason All-American. Basketball of Michigan, three scholarship players and four walk-ons.

Basketball Zak Irvin and Derrick Walton, runner-up Mr. The entering class included a pair of state Boys Basketball Gatorade Players of the Year in Indiana Mr. It was Beilein's fourth conference championship and his second at Michigan.Īlthough the 2012–13 team graduated five seniors and had two underclassmen ( Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr.) who were first-round draft choices in the 2013 NBA draft from the 2013 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament national runner-up team, three of the five national runner-up team starters ( Mitch McGary, Glenn Robinson III and Nik Stauskas) were returning. The team won the 2013–14 Big Ten Conference regular-season championship, for the 14th time in program history and the eighth time outright. The team was led by seventh-year head coach John Beilein. It was nicknamed "Team 98" in reference to that it was the program's 98th season overall and its 97th consecutive year as a member of the Big Ten Conference.

The team played its home games in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for the 47th consecutive year at the Crisler Center, with a capacity of 12,707. The 2013–14 Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team represented the University of Michigan during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
