When Phil Martelli talked to Malachi Moreno in April, the Michigan associate head coach told him how he and Juwan Howard would personally watch him play in an April tournament. It was a meaningful moment for the four-star big out of Kentucky, but not nearly...
George Washington III calls it beautiful. After his father took a job coaching Dayton, the rising senior left Christian Academy of Louisville to enroll at Dayton’s Chaminade Julienne high school. A roster that lost nearly all its top players from the previous season, the 2022-23...
Michigan published an updated roster for the 2023-24 season today, providing a first look at updated heights, weights and official confirmation of newcomer numbers. Sophomore point guard Dug McDaniel is listed at 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, that’s 15 pounds above his freshman-year listing. Seton Hall transfer...
Welcome to Transfer Tapes, a multi-part offseason series where we watch a full game from one of Michigan’s incoming transfers. The plan is to watch a handful of historical games featuring Michigan’s incoming transfers. We can dive into stats, clips, metrics, and anything else, but...
On the morning of March 28 — just four days after Alabama’s season came to a crushing end in the Sweet Sixteen — Nimari Burnett entered the transfer portal. A few hours later, Juwan Howard called. And two days after that phone call, on March...
It’s officially list cutting season in college basketball recruiting after the final grassroots evaluation period ended on Sunday. Two five-star Michigan targets included the Wolverines among their lists of finalists today. Five-star big man Flory Bidunga is down to four programs: Duke, Kansas, Michigan and...
For most college basketball players, the offseason follows a well-worn script. Go home and see family, return to campus, then grind in the gym before a new season dawns. That’s a luxury that Michigan transfer forward Olivier Nkamhoua doesn’t know. His offseason has been chaotic...
Michigan forward Olivier Nkamhoua met with the media on Saturday evening for the first time since joining the program. Nkamhoua discussed his fit in the new program, his upcoming trip overseas for the FIBA World Cup and more.
Editor’s note: Welcome Paul Nasr as a new beat writer this year. He’ll be on the beat with us covering the team and his first story comes from a Youssef Khayat podcast interview translated from Arabic. Appearing in just nine games and averaging 1.3 points...
West Virginia transfer Jose Perez will take an official visit to Michigan on July 28th, per a report by Trilly Donovan. Perez is a graduate transfer who entered the portal after Bob Huggins resigned from his post as head coach. He averaged 18.9 points, 4.5...
Tray Jackson still remembers the moment he realized his Seton Hall Pirates had an away game scheduled with the Michigan Wolverines. “My eyes lit up,” Jackson recalled Tuesday on the ‘Defend the Block’ podcast. “I knew that I had to have a good game.” Jackson,...
The college basketball world descending on the southeast over the last week as college coaches were on-hand to watch prospects at the Nike Peach Jam, Adidas 3SSB and Under Armour Association. All three events were only separated by a couple of hours’ drive as college...
The past three months have been a whirlwind for Olivier Nkamhoua, between his entry into the transfer portal and an extended dalliance with the NBA Draft process. Now, as the calendar flips to July, Nkamhoua is at last settling in — he arrived in Ann...
Summer classes begin in Ann Arbor this week, so summer workouts are officially underway. Newcomers have arrived and are on the court in the PDC with their new numbers and practice jerseys. The real season is over four months away, rosters aren’t set across the...
Michigan sophomore guard Kobe Bufkin was selected 15th in the 2023 NBA Draft by the Atlanta Hawks. Bufkin averaged 14 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 2.9 assists per game in a breakout sophomore season. Bufkin started his sophomore year slowly, but grew more comfortable as the...
On paper, Michigan has one of the best frontcourt groups in college basketball. The...
Michigan forward Danny Wolf was selected 27th in the 2025 NBA Draft by the...
Danny Wolf was on the podium after getting selected 27th by the Brooklyn Nets...
Michigan center Vlad Goldin wasn’t selected in the 2025 NBA Draft, but quickly signed...