Michigan Basketball: Preview of Wolverines 2020-21 depth chart
By Adam Childs
Michigan Basketball could be a darkhorse in Juwan Howard’s second year at the helm. We take a look at their depth chart for the 2020-21 season.
Juwan Howard’s first year at Michigan Basketball made history in different ways. Howard led the Wolverines to a Battle 4 Atlantis Championship in dominating fashion against a loaded field. That win helped Michigan make a historic jump from unranked to number four in the AP Poll.
The rest of the season didn’t go as smoothly as the Wolverines finished in 9th in the Big Ten, but was a trendy pick to make a run in the conference tournament before COVID shut the whole thing down.
The summer brought a lot of certainty and change for the Wolverines.It started off with a big commitment from Isaiah Todd and a crystal ball prediction for Joshua Christopher. But then Todd decided to go the pro route and Christopher chose Arizona State.
It was a tough couple of weeks for Howard, but they still ended up with the 12th ranked class in the country by bringing in Zeb Jackson, Terrance Williams, and Jace Howard. Combine that with graduate transfer Mike Smith from Columbia and Wake Forest transfer Chaundee Brown Jr and all was not lost for the Wolverines.
They did lose key contributor David DeJulius to transfer along with Colin Castleton and Cole Bajema. It was definitely an up and down summer, but one that ended on a high note when leading scorer Isaiah Livers took his name out of the NBA draft and decided to return.
Livers return is huge for Michigan and put them back on the map of teams able to compete with the top of the Big Ten.
The Wolverines should be pretty deep this year as we take a look at their depth chart for the 2020-21 season.