Michigan Basketball: 4 takeaways from the Wolverines 2019-20 season

The future is bright

There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic about the future of Michigan basketball. Juwan Howard is one of them, but he is far from the only one.

A lot will depend on what happens with guys like Franz Wagner and Isaiah Livers, who will each have to weigh turning pro and entering the NBA draft. The lack of an NCAA tournament certainly hurts their chances of getting noticed, but both have NBA game. The question is whether they go now or later.

Livers seems more likely to go but even if he does, as long as Todd and Christopher end up signing, Michigan basketball will be loaded. David DeJulius will probably take over as the starting point guard and he could be flanked on the wings by Wagner and Christopher, with Isaiah Todd and either Brandon Johns, Hunter Dickinson or Austin Davis as the starting center.

That still leaves Eli Brooks, who could also be the starting point guard, Cole Bajema, Colin Castleton and Terrance Williams, along with Zeb Jackson, who is getting overlooked but is also a really good combo guard.

Without Livers and Wager, Michigan would still be really good with Todd and Christopher, but with them, or even just one of them, the Wolverines will be legit Final Four contenders in 2020-21.