Michigan forward Tarris Reed Jr. enters NCAA transfer portal
Michigan Wolverines basketball has now lost its third player to the NCAA transfer portal since head coach Juwan Howard was fired March 15, with sophomore forward Tarris Reed Jr. being the latest. He joins guards Dug McDaniel and George Washington III.
Reed played two seasons at Michigan and has two years of eligibility remaining.
The 6-foot-10, 265-pounder played in 32 games with 31 starts for the Maize and Blue, who finished with an 8-24 record in 2023-24. He was fifth on the team averaging 9 points per game, adding a team-high 7.2 rebounds. Reed shot 52.1 percent on two-pointers and was 1-for-3 from beyond the arc.
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He turned the ball over 71 times compared to 19 assists. Reed gave the ball on 30 percent of his post-up possessions when the defense brought a double team, per Synergy. Including passes, he generated just 0.831 points per post-up, ranking in the 36th percentile in the country. Reed made 61.9 percent of his field goal attempts at the rim but struggled with a 25.6-percent clip on his hook shot.
Reed scored in double figures on 13 occasions this past season, with three outings of 15-plus points. That included putting up a career-high 20 points on 8-of-10 shooting from the field in a loss to Illinois Jan. 18. In that game, Reed shot 4-of-4 from the free throw line, showing major improvement from earlier in his career. He was 58.6 percent from the stripe on the year, after making just 40 percent of his free throws as a freshman.
Reed saw time in all 34 contests off the bench as a freshman for Michigan in 2022-23, backing up former All-American Hunter Dickinson. He averaged 3.4 points and 3.9 rebounds in 12.6 minutes.
The St. Louis, Mo., native was a four-star recruit in the 2022 class out of Link Year Prep. He was ranked as the No. 35 overall player and seventh-best center in the country, along with the No. 3 prospect in Missouri.
With three players heading to the transfer portal, Michigan has just five scholarship players that are slated to return for next season. However, graduate Nimari Burnett and senior Terrance Williams II — both of whom have a COVID year remaining — have been quiet on their status heading into the 2024-25 campaign. Both were honored on senior day March 10 against Nebraska.
