Over the last few years, we’ve borrowed an idea from Adam Jardy of the Columbus Dispatch to roll out our season preview player profiles in a power-ranking format. We’ll preview every player on the roster while ranking them by some arbitrary combination of ability, importance, and role.
We’re bringing the same thing back this season. I ranked each scholarship player (1 through 13) based on their expected impact on the 2025-26 season, and we’ll dive into each player in-depth as we near tip-off. This approach is more straightforward than a position-by-position preview because those often get bogged down in a debate about each player’s position rather than their importance and role on the roster.
Next up, we look at Michigan redshirt senior Will Tschetter.
Previously: No. 10 Winters Grady, No. 11 Oscar Goodman, No. 12 Malick Kordel, and No. 13 Ricky Liburd
No. 9: Will Tschetter
#42 | 6-8, 230 pounds | Graduate | Forward
Will Tschetter has seen just about everything that college basketball has to offer throughout his four-plus years in college. He graduated in three years, played on good, bad and mediocre teams for multiple coaches, lost weight, gained it back, and lost it again.
Now he’s back for one final season in the same uniform he’s worn for five years—a rarity in modern college basketball.
An unknown prospect who committed to Phil Martelli and Juwan Howard in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic now serves as the program connection between past and present, becoming a foundational part of Dusty May’s early tenure.
When Tschetter signed with Michigan, May was a few thousand miles away in the Boca Raton sunshine, figuring out how to get his program over the hump. When May’s Florida Atlantic program was in the midst of a Final Four run, Tschetter and Michigan were watching an NIT game slip away unforgettably at Vanderbilt.
There was no reason to think their paths would ever cross; instead, they raised a Big Ten Tournament trophy together last March with Tschetter’s baseline screen — one of the most memorable plays of the season — helping to deliver the knockout blow.
Now here they are as Michigan embarks on a season with its highest expectations since Tschetter’s first year on campus.
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