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Michigan basketball celebrates after beating Texas A&M in NCAAs
The Michigan Wolverines celebrated with fans after knocking off Texas A&M in the second round of the NCAAs on Saturday, March 22, 2025 in Denver.
The Michigan basketball year ended just days ago, yet already the program is at work constructing next year’s team.
Elliot Cadeau, the starting point guard for North Carolina this past year, has decided to transfer to Michigan, an individual with knowledge of the situation confirmed to the Free Press on condition on anonymity because it’s not official. Cadeau, a 6-foot-1, 180-pound ball handler from West Orange, New Jersey, has played in 74 career games with 68 starts.
He’s not a primary scoring threat, averaging just 9.4 points on 44.5% shooting while making just 33.7% on 3-pointers on fewer than three such attempts per game. However, he will immediately become the team’s best facilitator. Cadeau averaged 6.2 assists per game and had a 2:1 assist to turnover ratio on the season. He had a 14-point, 13-assist double-double against Wake Forest and another with 12 points and 12 assists against Campbell.
Cadeau was an extremely highly regarded prospect coming to college out Link Academy as the No. 2 point guard in the country, the No. 2 player in the state of Missouri and the No. 11 prospect regardless of position in the 2023 class.
The news isn’t all positive, however. Reports also surfaced Monday evening that Sam Walters, U-M’s sharpshooting sophomore who transferred into the program this past season from Alabama, has put his name in the portal as well.
The 6-foot-10, 200-pound forward played in 23 games during his season in Ann Arbor and averaged 5.0 points and 1.6 rebounds while shooting 36.6% from 3. Walters missed the final 14 games of the year with a back injury and did not travel with the team for their two stops in the NCAA tournament in either Denver or Atlanta.
It’s likely U-M…
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Publish date : 2025-03-31 21:50:00
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