Michigan basketball offers several top 2026 targets ... visits are being set

Michigan has offered several rising junior prospects and is making headway with many. Here’s the latest on some of the priorities, including a few who have set visits:

Luca Foster
6-5 • 185 • SF
Branson (Mo.) Link Academy
Rivals.com No. 43 player overall in the industry rankings 

Foster scheduled his first official visit to Michigan, and he’ll be on campus for the Sept. 13 football weekend with Central Michigan. The Wayne (Pa.) native also holds offers from Pittsburgh, Seton Hall, Virginia, Oklahoma, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Cincinnati, Ohio State, and several others and has taken unofficial visits to Georgetown, Pittsburgh, Villanova, Penn State, and St. Joseph’s.

“I’d like to call myself a wing who can handle the ball,” Foster told Rivals.com. “I can knock down shots, play above the rim, create for my teammates, and play defense. I feel like I can do a little bit of everything on the floor.”

He was one of the top performers at the July 13 Nike EYBL event in North Augusta, S.C. Rivals’ Joe Tipton called him the No. 2 player he saw on Saturday that weekend.

“The 6-5 wing plays the right way, can score it in a variety of ways, and stays composed,” he reported. “He’s creative around the basket to avoid his shot being blocked and has the makings of a really good defender. He finished with 25 points and eight rebounds. Michigan’s Dusty May watched him, among others.”

He’s looking for a school in which he has a great relationship with the staff.

“I need to know that I can trust them and that they can trust me,” he said. “I need to know the development plan they have for me, coming into my freshman year and beyond that, and I need to know their playstyle, their plan. How they’re looking to play me will be a big thing for me, as well.”

Quinn Costello
6-9 • 195 • PF
Boston Newman School
No. 81
Costello, a former 2025 recruit, earned MVP at the prestigious Pangos All-American Camp this summer and earned an invite to the NBPA Top 100 Camp, where he also played well. He’s since burst into the top 100 and earned offers from Michigan, Texas, Purdue, Providence, Michigan State, and others to go with spring offers from Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota he picked up earlier.

“I’d say I’m a 6’10”, long, versatile, wing forward,” Costello said. “I play a lot of the floor, I guard more fours and fives than threes, but I’d say I’m pretty flexible. I can really shoot it. That’s like my number one strength. I’ve been known as a knockdown shooter for most of my life, but I’ve started to do a lot more, like putting on the floor, driving closeouts, offensive rebounding, running the floor, all that stuff.”

He’s taken unofficial visits to Michigan and Michigan State and has plans to see more schools. U-M seemed to set the bar.

“That’s a great coaching staff,” he said. “I find myself to be most successful in systems where the player-coach relationship is more than just passing a player-coach, when you really get to know each other. So, I really value that, and so do they. I really like that about them. 

“It’s Michigan. The Big House. They took me everywhere, and all the facilities are amazing. The football field is ginormous. It’s awesome.”

He plans on narrowing his list in early fall. Purdue, Minnesota, and North Carolina are others high on his list. 

“The relationship piece is going to be big for me,” he said. “I’m most successful when coaches really trust me, and I really trust coaches, and we have a super strong, unbreakable relationship,” he said. “I say it a lot, and I hate to say it, but if basketball doesn’t work out, I’m still at a school where I’m set up for success.”

Jaxon Richardson
Las Vegas Columbus
6-6 • 200 • SF
No. 18
Richardson, the younger brother of former Michigan State guard Jase Richardson and son of former MSU great Jason Richardson, lists Michigan, Alabama, Louisville, USC, Miami, Ole Miss, Cincinnati, Villanova, Creighton and Seton Hall among his top 10 schools. Interestingly, the Spartans aren’t on his list. 

May and staff have prioritized the athletic wing — a dunking machine in AAU ball, like his father — and he’s visited unofficially. The Wolverines are currently working as hard as anyone to land him. 

“They reach out to me almost every day,” Richardson told ZagsBlog July 8. “So, that means really a lot to me. Just when I went up there, getting to see the style of play, the ball movement they have there is ridiculous. That’s definitely something I took away from there.” 

Richardson visited USC unofficially last year and will see Alabama on an official Sept. 13. Miami recently hired Columbus High coach Andrew Moran, making them one to watch in his recruitment, too.

Carlos Medlock Jr. 
6-1 • 75 • PG
Branson (Mo.) Link Academy
NR
Dusty May helped coach Medlock’s father at EMU on May’s first stint as an assistant coach, so there are ties here. Though he’s not big, Medlock is extremely quick and outstanding with the ball, able to get to the rim and score, and has an improving jump shot. He’ll likely crack the top 100 when the rankings are updated later this summer.

Medlock will transfer to Link Academy from Wayne (Mich.) Memorial this year, but U-M and MSU seem to be at the top of his list. He picked up offers from both schools in June, when he put on a show at Adidas 3SSB Palmetto Road Championships in Rock Hill, S.C. He scored 28 points in his opening game and was named MVP of the day by Rivals’ Joe Tipton.

“It was a quality show that CJ Medlock put on,” he reported. “He’s not only playing with a lot of confidence, but consistently making plays, putting his team in an advantage off a live dribble.

“But what stood out with Medlock was the shooting. [He] has a crafty handle with great pace. The range extended beyond the three-point arc, but he was also a weapon in the midrange. The majority of his scoring came away from the basket, but he showed an ability to be efficient and consistent.”

Michigan will look to get him back on campus this fall. 

Anthony Thompson
6-8 • 185 • SF
Lebanon (Ohio) Western Reserve
No. 8
The five-star wing has it all, including an outstanding jumper. He made 45 percent of his triples last year and scores well at the rim, too. He’s visited Michigan unofficially and has, BYU, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, Texas, Ohio State, and several others on his list. 

“They are high on my list of schools, as I have continued to be in contact with the coaching staff,” he said July 3. ““I think they are a very good program with a great coaching staff and players. I haven’t scheduled anything yet, but I am looking to within the next few weeks.”

He shined at adidas July 13, Rivals’ Jamie Shaw reported.

“There is something about seeing someone consistently put the ball through the net,” he wrote. “Anthony Thompson finished with 35 points in Indiana Elite’s semi-final game tonight. 

“Thompson, a noted shooter, was aggressive offensively, hunting his shots and attacking the rim. He got to the free throw line while creating offensive opportunities. It was good to see the added aggression in his game … a valuable part of his growth curve.”