Michigan set a program record for losses in 2023-24.
Juwan Howard will not return as Michigan’s men’s basketball coach next season after a tumultuous season that included off-court drama and dismal on-court results. Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel made the announcement Friday, thanking Howard before saying “it was clear to me that the program was not living up to our expectations and not trending in the right direction.” was 8-24 in Howard’s fifth season and 3-17 in the Big Ten.
In a 2020-21 regular-season game against , he and Terps coach Mark Turgeon verbally sparred in Ann Arbor. When the two met again later in the Big Ten Tournament, . Howard and Turgeon bandied words from opposite sides of the floor until they approached one another and needed to be restrained. Howard was issued double technical fouls, ejected, and escorted off the floor.