Top offensive tackle from 2025 will visit Michigan football
In case you haven’t noticed, Michigan football’s recruiting trail is beginning to heat up. The Wolverines are beginning to demonstrate their aggressive recruiting approach, as head coach Sherrone Moore predicted.
We continue to be in the middle of a hiring freeze. Early next month is when that ends, and Michigan football has been busy setting up visits to bring recruits to campus. Mason Garcia, an offensive tackle rated four stars, paid us a visit on Monday.
In March, Andrew Babalola, a talented offensive tackle who is on the verge of being a five-star recruit, is scheduled to visit Ann Arbor, according to Michigan football offensive line coach Grant Newsome.
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Babalola embodies everything that makes an offensive lineman great. Based in Overland Park, Kansas, this 6-foot-6, 280-pound player is ranked 26th overall in the 247 Sports composite rankings. Additionally, he is the 2025 class’s fourth-ranked offensive tackle.
Although Michigan football had already extended an offer to the highly-regarded Midwest prospect in September, Brice Marich of The Michigan Insider reports that Babalola has scheduled a visit for March 22. There is already a formal visit planned to Oklahoma. Nebraska and Kansas State are also deeply engaged.
Despite the fact that he currently has no family in Michigan, Babalola told Marich that the offer “was special” because he was born there. Additionally, he has a close relationship with offensive tackle Andrew Sprague, who committed to Michigan in the 2024 class.
Babalola’s first visit will present an opportunity for the Wolverines to show that they are a serious candidate in this recruiting class. It would be great to have him back for an official visit in June, and given the recent success of Michigan’s offensive line, you have to believe that the Wolverines will be very much in the running when it comes to Babalola.On Wednesday, February 28, at Value City Arena, the University of Michigan women’s basketball team (17-11, 8-8 Big Ten) will play Ohio State (24-3, 15-1 Big Ten), which is ranked second, to cap off a two-game road trip. The game will be broadcast live on Peacock at 7 p.m.
In their first meeting of the season, U-M prevailed 69-60 at Crisler on December 30. Ohio State was defeated by Michigan in the 2021–22 season series, and the Buckeyes paid it forward the following year. In the program’s 17-year history, Michigan has defeated OSU eight times with head coach Kim Barnes Arico in charge.
• Michigan, which is 1-3 this season against opponents ranked in the top 25, will take on No. 2 Ohio State, its fifth-ranked opponent of the year. Throughout Barnes Arico’s 12 seasons as head coach, Michigan has triumphed in at least one game against a ranked opponent.
In program history, U-M is aiming for its third victory over a team ranked in the top five. With two victories against the No.
Five-ranked teams, both from the 2021–2022 campaign (No. 5 Indiana, No. 5 Baylor). When playing a top-five opponent on the road, the Wolverines have never prevailed. Against the No. 2 team in the Associated Press poll, Michigan is 0-8 all-time.
• On December 30, the Wolverines defeated No. 17-ranked Ohio State 69-60 by coming back from a three-point deficit at the beginning of the fourth quarter and outscoring the Buckeyes 27-15 in the last minute of play. Playing the entire forty minutes, Laila Phelia scored a career-high 26 points, pulled down four rebounds, and stole two steals. Jordan Hobbs (11), Elissa Brett (10) and Lauren Hansen (17 points, two rebounds, two assists, and four steals) completed Michigan’s double-figure scorers. Michigan was ahead 34–27 on the glass andforced 19 OSU errors, which resulted in 18 points.
• Michigan has two games left in the regular season before they head to the Big Ten Tournament (March 6–10). In Big Ten play, U-M and Maryland are tied for sixth place at 8-8. The Wolverines are finishing up a two-game road swing at No. 2 Ohio State after winning on the road at Northwestern on February 24. U-M will host Purdue on March 3 at 7 p.m. to wrap up the regular season at home.
This season’s Big Ten winners over Ohio State are none other than the Michigan Wolverines. OSU has not lost in 2024; the Buckeyes’ most recent setback occurred on December 30 at Crisler Center.
This season, Phelia (Cincinnati) and Hobbs (Springboro), two Ohio natives, are making their second trip back home to Michigan. At Value City Arena, Phelia (2019, Mount Notre Dame Academy) took home a state championship. Since the 2021–2022 season, Michigan has not played at Value City Arena. On January 27, 2022, Michigan defeated the Buckeyes 77–58. Last season, the teams faced off at the Covelli Center.
• The two top scoring defenses in the Big Ten will square off in this rivalry game. Having held Northwestern to just 60 points in their previous game (on February 24), Michigan is ranked second at 63.2 points per game, while Ohio State is ranked first, conceding just 62.6 points per game. Ohio State was held to by Michigan
ranks first, giving up just 62.6 points per game, and Michigan ranks second, giving up 63.2 points per game, having just held Northwestern to 60 points in their previous game (on February 24). In their opening meeting, Michigan held Ohio State to a season-low 60 points.
• On February 24, in Michigan’s victory over Northwestern, Phelia recorded her first career double-double with 16 points, 10 rebounds, a career-high seven assists, and four steals. She joins Taylor Williams and Cameron Williams as the third Wolverine to record a double-double this season.
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