Michigan Basketball: Examining Wolverines recent recruiting activity

Michigan basketball has been active recruiting both the 2021 and 2022 classes, with even some reclassification hopes for 2020. Here’s a breakdown.

It’s hard to understate how much recruiting for Michigan basketball and other top college programs has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Not only do schools not get to host prospects for visits right now, they also don’t get a chance to do live evaluations and all the other things that are normally happening right now. Another thing that is making things a little more complicated for Michigan basketball is the NBA draft.

Normally, the Wolverines would know by now if Isaiah Livers was going to return for his senior season or not. But since the NBA hasn’t even restarted yet and won’t finish its season until October, it still leaves things up in the air for guys like Livers.

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For Michigan, that means a number of different things. For one, the Wolverines would love to know if they will have one of their best players coming back for next season. Also, knowing if they have that extra scholarship available would be critical too, because U-M is in the hunt for some highly-touted prospects who are talking about reclassification to 2020.

It certainly seems like a long shot that Efton Reid or Charles Bediako, two 2021 recruits who have expressed interest in reclassification and have Michigan offers, would commit and actually reclassify for next year, but we are in uncharted territory.

Either way, Michigan basketball is making some nice gains in recruiting for 2021 and that starts with four-star prospect Quincy Allen. The wing from Washington, D.C. is ranked 56th in the 2021 class according to Rivals and is 45th according to the 247 sports composite rankings.

Michigan has an in with Allen because he was AAU teammates with Hunter Dickinson and Terrance Williams, who are each part of the Wolverines 2020 class.

Here’s what Rivals’ Chris Balas wrote about Michigan basketball’s chances with Allen ($):

"“On the hoops recruiting front, we like Michigan’s chances with four-star Washington D.C. wing Quincy Allen more and more. Allen is feeling the Wolverines big time. When visits are allowed to occur again, we expect him on campus almost immediately thereafter, and it wouldn’t stun to see him pull the trigger after a great visit.”"

Balas also wrote that Michigan is gaining momentum with Will Tschetter, a skilled big guy who reminds of a John Beilein player. He has offers from Nebraska, Minnesota and Arkansas. The 6-foot-9 forward averaged over 30 points a game last season and appears to have strong interest in the Wolverines after their offer.

Michigan is also very focused on Jalen Warley, a four-star recruit who has a strong relationship to assistant coach Phil Martelli. Warley is expected to release a new top list on Sunday and the Wolverines should be on it.

The other thing of note from this past week or so were the in-state offers to 2022 recruits Ty Rodgers and Fletcher Loyer. As well as head coach Juwan Howard has done recruiting in his young tenure, Michigan got behind Michigan State as far as in-state offers in 2021.

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Howard made sure that didn’t happen this time around, offering Loyer, who’s brother actually plays for Michigan State. And with Rodgers in particular, both Saddi Washington and Howard are doing a nice job of setting the tone early.

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