Michigan basketball reaches out to Georgetown transfer Rowan Brumbaugh
Under new head coach Dusty May, Michigan Wolverines basketball has reached out to Georgetown guard transfer Rowan Brumbaugh. The 6-foot-4, 183-pounder played one season with the Hoyas after redshirting a year at Texas in 2022-23. He has three years of eligibility remaining.
Brumbaugh entered the NCAA transfer portal March 20. Since then, he’s heard from a slew of schools, including Michigan, Arkansas, Florida State, Villanova, Ohio State and others.
According to On3’s rankings, Brumbaugh is the No. 240 overall player and No. 45 point guard in the transfer portal this offseason.
The Washington D.C. native ranked fourth on Georgetown with 8.3 points per game last season, adding 2.6 assists and 2.2 rebounds in 22.3 minutes. Starting 20 of 31 games, he shot 42.6 percent on twos (58-of-136), 37 percent on threes (27-of-73) and 78.9 percent at the free throw line (60-of-76).
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Playing shooting guard and some point guard, Brumbaugh ran the second-most ball screens on his team last season (194), producing 0.877 points per play in those situations, which ranked in the 53rd percentile in the country. He’s an excellent spot-up shooter, with a 55.3 effective field goal percentage on catch-and-shoot jumpers (71st percentile). He was 14-of-27 on unguarded catch-and-shoot jump shots. Brumbaugh also made 55.7 percent of his shots at the rim.
Brumbaugh stepped up late in the season. He scored in double figures in six of seven games during a stretch from mid-February to early March. that included a career-best 24-point performance with 3 made three-pointers in a loss to Xavier March 2.
Georgetown finished with a 9-23 record in its first season under head coach Ed Cooley, who left Providence for the fellow Big East program.
“I’m always on our point guards to be better communicators,” Cooley said of Brumbaugh Feb. 24. “I think Rowan is improving with that, but I still think he has a long way to go.
“When you’re the point guard, as is the quarterback, you have to communicate, communicate again and communicate more, in order to build that confidence within your team.You gotta have a fine balance of defense and offense, when to score, when not to score, who you gotta get the ball to. You have to be a maestro at that position, and I think he’s growing into it.”
Brumbaugh committed to Texas under former head coach Chris Beard, who was fired by the university following a third-degree felony charge for family violence. His redshirt year was with a Longhorn squad that went 29-9 with an Elite Eight appearance under then-interim coach Rodney Terry.
Brumbaugh attended Northfield (Mass.) Mount Hermon, a prep school that plays in the New England Prep School Athletic Conference. He was a four-star and the No. 87 overall recruit in the 2022 class.
