Newsstand: Michigan basketball makes cut for pair of five-stars
Michigan basketball has been working on building its roster for the 2023-24 season, but it has eyes on the future as well. The Wolverines made the cut for a pair of five-star recruits on Monday in point guard Boogie Fland and center Flory Bidunga.
Fland told On3’s Joe Tipton on Monday that Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, St. John’s, and UConn comprise his final eight schools. Fland, who is the No. 7 overall prospect in the country and top-ranked point guard per the On3 Industry Ranking, has already taken an official visit to Ann Arbor. The Wolverines lead for him on On3’s Recruiting Prediction Machine.
Bidunga is down to four schools left in his recruitment with Auburn, Duke, Kansas, and Michigan. He has taken an official visit to Michigan, and according to Tipton he wants to make a decision prior to the start of his senior season. He is the No. 4 overall prospect in the country and the nation’s top-ranked center.
Michigan has a pair of players committed in its 2024 class in guard Christian Anderson and Durral Brooks, both three-star recruits on the On3 Industry Ranking. They come in at No. 130 and No. 144 in the country, respectively. The program currently has three scholarship spots available for the 2024-25 season and could have as many as five if Terrance Williams and Jace Howard opt into fifth seasons with the program.
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Most of the attention will be focused on Roman Wilson, Cornelius Johnson, Tyler Morris and Darrius Clemons, but O’Leary, a junior, should factor into that group. The former high school lacrosse star stands at 6-foot-3, 195 pounds and has been tabbed “Cooper Kupp lite” by those in the program. Apparently, he catches everything thrown his way in practice, and he was perhaps the team’s most impressive player in the spring game with six catches for 126 yards. If nothing else, it showed us a glimpse of what his teammates have seen in practice.
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