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Michigan transfer portal: Southern Indiana guard hears from Wolverines

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Michigan made contact with Southern Indiana guard Jayland Randall, according to Sam Kayser. (MaCabe Brown/Evansville Courier)

The Michigan Wolverines have had a fruitful transfer portal cycle heading into the second year under head coach Dusty May, but there are still spots to fill on the roster to round it all out. According to Sam Kayser, we can add Southern Indiana guard Jayland Randall (6-5, 180) to the board, at least as someone who has heard from the staff.

Seton Hall, Virginia Tech, Michigan, Virginia, Oregon, Nebraska, Arizona State, Texas A&M, Loyola Chicago, Rhode Island, St. Joseph’s, Sam Houston State, La Salle, Portland, Pacific, Iona, Eastern Michigan, New Mexico State and others have made contact, Randall told Kayser on Monday night.

The Detroit, Michigan native, who attended Chandler Park Academy in Harper Woods, has one season of eligibility remaining. Last season at USI, he started 27 games, averaged 15.0 points on 42.4% shooting from the field (37.6% from three), and led his squad in steals with 38. Randall also averaged 3.3 rebounds and 1.4 assists per night.

Randall transferred into the program last season after two years at Alabama A&M. He played in 23 games his freshman season, averaging 3.1 points in six minutes per game. Randall played in 33 contests in 2023-24 with two starts, averaging 7.0 points per game in 17.3 minutes per night. Shooting from distance was a bit of a struggle in his first tow collegiate seasons on low volume, but he made 45-of-120 three-point attempts last season.

Randall primarily played the two last season for the 10-20 Southern Indiana squad with some minutes at the three. One of the biggest issues, and skepticism that this might be a fit, is that Michigan currently has a few off-ball guards/wings in graduate Nimari Burnett, senior Roddy Gayle Jr., sophomore LJ Cason and incoming freshman Trey McKenney. Unless he wants to come closer to home and compete for back-end minutes.

Michigan’s biggest remaining needs are an on-ball guard behind transfer Elliot Cadeau and a developmental big man. The Wolverines have brought in a pair of centers in Illinois’ Morez Johnson Jr. and UCLA 7-footer Aday Mara, but it might be wise to stash a younger player who needs seasoning. The staff has been linked to German center Malick Kordel, with May reportedly heading overseas after the season ended. That need potentially gets larger if UAB transfer forward Yaxel Lendeborg, who visited this weekend, stays in the NBA Draft process.

The transfer portal is currently closed for further entries, but several players remain and are looking for spots. Michigan may not be done adding, so we will keep a close eye on the roster heading into the summer, with moves still out there to be made.

Michigan’s portal class currently ranks No. 2 on On3’s Team Transfer Portal Index, which measures a team’s production added versus production lost. Texas is slightly ahead with an Index score of 37, while the Wolverines come in with 33. The team’s 2025 recruiting class is 26th in the nation and fifth in the Big Ten, headlined by McKenney, top-60 wing Winters Grady and power forward Oscar Goodman, who redshirted and joined the program this past winter to get a head start on his career.

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