When junior Stu Douglass looks back at Tuesday’s 80-57 loss to No. 12 Purdue at Crisler Arena, he says the Michigan men’s basketball team only played 10 to 12 minutes of good defense.

And in yesterday’s practice, the Wolverines (0-1 Big Ten, 10-3 overall) spent 20 times that amount in team practice on the court, lifting weights and watching tapes, trying to alleviate the errors they made in their first Big Ten conference game.

“They’re just a lot of mistakes we could have controlled,” Douglass said at Crisler Arena on Thursday. “Especially with (Purdue’s) pressure and executing our offense with what we wanted to do. We just didn’t do the things we talked about and what we game planned for.”

Michigan’s offense struggled against Purdue’s pesky man-to-man defense that pushed them past the 3-point line and made it difficult to run the Wolverines’ offense. A few of the players compared Purdue’s defense to that of the University of Texas El Paso, who they faced Nov. 27. In both games, Michigan scored less than 60 points.

But it also was Michigan’s defense that suffered mightily in Tuesday’s contest. In the first five minutes of the game, the Wolverines allowed the Boilermakers to make a 19-3 run. Michigan spent the rest of the first half clawing its way out of that hole.

Led by Douglass’s 13 first-half points, the Wolverines went into halftime trailing just 30-26. But in the second half, Purdue made an even bigger run and exploited Michigan’s defensive errors. Plagued by mental errors and unable to regain composure during key plays, the Wolverines allowed the Boilermakers to outscore them 50-31 in the second half.

With their first game behind them, the Wolverines are trying to take what they can from the disappointing loss and bring it into the rest of the Big Ten slate — while only looking towards the following game, staying as focused as possible.

“When you’re in the Big Ten with six teams being ranked right now, well there’s only 10 other teams you can play, so it’s the thing you hear over and over again,” Michigan coach John Beilein said of the importance of winning in order to gain confidence. “If you look ahead in the schedule there’s gonna be games that you hope you have a better chance at winning than others, but you can’t look at it that way. You just got to say, ‘This is the game. This is the only game.’ ”

But it’s hard to overlook the schedule Michigan has in store over the next eight games. And it’s very hard to fathom that the Wolverines’ matchup on Sunday with the Nittany Lions, who feature an immensely talented Talor Battle, may be one of the more winnable games for the young squad in the next month.

After the home contest on Sunday, the Wolverines face Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan’s Badgers, who are nearly unbeatable on their home court. In his 10 seasons at the helm of the Wisconsin program, Ryan’s amassed a home court record of 146-12 — a nearly 93 winning percentage — at the Kohl Center in Madison.

Following that game, Michigan has two demanding contests at home — No. 3 Kansas and No. 2 Ohio State, two programs that skeptics have as Final Four contenders this year.

And then the Wolverines are on the road for two tough games against Indiana and Northwestern before returning to Crilser Arena to square off with a very quick No. 14 Minnesota squad.

“I know how quickly things can turn back in your way when a schedule like that seems completely, just impossible at times,” Douglass said on Thursday.

With the strength of the Big Ten this year, there are ample opportunities for the Wolverines to make statement wins on a schedule that seems “just impossible.”

But for now, the Wolverines are only looking to Sunday.