3 biggest questions facing Michigan Basketball this offseason

After an up-and-down 2021-22 season, Michigan basketball faces an important offseason, and here are three big questions for the Wolverines. 

Whether or not you want to call Michigan basketball’s run to the Sweet 16 a success, there are plenty of programs that would gladly take a pair of NCAA Tournament wins.

The outcome was disappointing because the Wolverines could have easily won that game against Villanova. But they could have won the Elite 8 game against UCLA in 2021 too. That’s just how it goes sometimes.

That Michigan basketball team faced a dramatic change as Franz Wagner, Isaiah Livers, Chaundee Brown, and Mike Smith — four of the key players on the team departed.

Something similar could happen this season as Eli Brooks and DeVante Jones are for sure out the door, with the potential that Hunter Dickinson, Moussa Diabate, and Caleb Houstan all follow.

That would mean replacing the entire starting lineup, and as young, as the Wolverines were last year, even with some of those guys back, they are going to be among the youngest teams in college basketball once again.

Juwan Howard’s first three seasons have gone well. He’s won a Big Ten title, reached the Elite 8, Two Sweet 16s, and won five NCAA Tournament games.

But this is a huge offseason for Howard and the Wolverines. Not everything is going to work in U-M’s favor but depending on how things go, Michigan could easily be a preseason top-10 team once again in 2022, or it could be something else entirely.

So here are three questions facing Michigan that will determine that.