The Michigan men’s basketball team will seem a little bit older when it takes the court at Crisler Arena for the first game of the season, thanks to its European basketball tour.

The Wolverines arrived stateside last Saturday after going 1-3 against four professional Belgian teams. Michigan’s lone victory came in the final game against Mons, in which the Wolverines played in front of a sellout crowd.

Sophomore Matt Vogrich led scorers that day with 22 points after going 4-for-7 from 3-point range. And while it was Vogrich who impressed the crowds, Michigan coach John Beilein said that for each game there were different players who stood out to him and the rest of the coaching staff, both with skill and confidence.

“We’d rather have a guy with swagger that you can tone down a bit, than have a guy who’s afraid out there that you have to give him permission to dunk on somebody,” Beilein said, praising freshmen Tim Hardaway Jr. and Evan Smotrycz’s play in Europe.

Hardaway was the team’s leading scorer, averaging 11.8 points per game. The Wolverines used him similarly to Manny Harris in past seasons. But one advantage Hardaway offers that Harris couldn't is his size — as a freshman he weighs more than Harris ever did at 185 lbs.

Michigan’s lineup remained the same all four games — juniors Zack Novak and Stu Douglass, sophomores Darius Morris and Matt Vogrich and redshirt freshman Blake McLimans.

The Wolverines return to a limited practice schedule Wednesday, with individual workouts until Nov. 15, when the practices will expand to six or seven players for two hours a week.

2010 Schedule Announced: This year, the Wolverines' regular-season schedule will feature 18 Big Ten games rather than just 16.

The regular season will start Nov. 5 in Ann Arbor against an opponent not yet determined. Michigan will then partake in the 2010 Legends Classic which pits the Wolverines against Bowling Green, Gardner-Webb, Syracuse and concludes with the winner of Georgia Tech and UTEP. They will follow that up with the championship round of the tournament in Atlantic City, N.J. before the annual ACC/Big Ten Challenge game against Clemson.

Following their contest against the Tigers, Michigan will play host to eight straight games and won’t have to leave Ann Arbor until January.

Outside of the Big Ten games and Clemson, the Jan. 9 Kansas game should be a benchmark for a team hoping to return to postseason play after a surprisingly disappointing 2009-10 season.

“We try to pick out games where a road win would be tremendous and a tough road loss, like the U-Conn game from two years ago … might have helped us to get in the (NCAA) tournament as much as the Duke win,” Beilein said of his team’s schedule strength.

Injury Update: Freshman forward Colton Christian is the only Wolverine who didn’t see playing time in Europe, due to a hamstring injury. Beilein is hoping that Christian will return to play next week but is being cautious with how quickly Christian gets back on the court.