Not sure how different Ivy League athlete standards are compared to Stanford, but a 25 ACT is fairly significantly below what will get you into Michigan as a normal student in the Common App era.
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At one of the bigger Ivy League schools, their assistant told me if they have, say a 3.5 core GPA, give or take a point or two, they’d basically need a 29 or 30 to probably get accepted. The lower the GPA, the higher the Test score has to be.
If a player was a 4.0 then I’d think they’d need something around a 25 on the ACT.
Patriot League? Really? I don’t know myself, but did a grad degree at American U, which is in the Patriot League. Not exactly hard to get in anyways.
There was some questionable stuff with Amaker at Harvard but there is something that all Ivy League incoming athletes need to meet. A lot mentioned in this article.
I’d imagine he follows Buzz to A&M
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No real buzz on anyone other than Pierce is interesting to me. Especially with Utomi quietly committing.
Blackshear’s latest buzz has been around him to Kentucky, but Nebraska is in the mix too.
Here’s Henschke mentioning Michigan once had interest in Utomi, as well as Tucker. Tucker is a weird case though because I’ve seen a few Tweets/Reddit comments that there’s a decent probability that UNC admissions may not let him in. Tucker declared for the draft but also has set up a visit for Auburn.
Tucker had the same chatter for Michigan admissions and that’s why there hasn’t really been any traction there. That one died as quickly as it started.
Info on Eric Williams: Evans says Mizzou and Oregon are the two to beat (makes sense given they’re getting him to visit) but also says that if the recruitment extends into May, he could look elsewhere.
Hopefully he chooses Missouri imo because they have 1 kid I know very well from Michigan coming in this year and Cornell Mann, one of the assistants is from Detroit. Mann interviewed for a Michigan assistant spot in the past. Also, Mann’s son Maliq Carr is getting recruited hard by Michigan football as a 4 star WR. It’d be cool to see Williams at Mizzou. Nice little Michigan contingent there.
Beilein said last night that all of his assistants are ready for HC jobs. I wonder if Cornell is about to get another shot at an assistant role at Michigan.
I would not hold your breath on that one.
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Any sense of who would potentially replace Yaklich? This is just recency bias talking here and I’m not saying it’s the best option, but surely Michigan could pay Chris Beard’s defense-minded assistant Mark Adams a lot more than he makes now…
No clue. I don’t think anyone was predicting Luke Yaklich and Deandre Haynes to fill the voids left in the last coaching search either. And people predicted a lot of names 
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Just me, but I have a hard time thinking any of these grad guys will matter much - it seems they often are extreme role players (I realize what TTU got this year) more than difference makers.
I’d rather see us take a long term prospect.
Probably should post this in another thread but two new transfers with Michigan listed with Camron Justice and Kareem South both are guards.
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I really like to see Michigan showing interest in some transfer shooting guards, in case the remaining class of 2019 options don’t pan out. Justice could be good, solid 3-pt numbers.
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