The Michigan men’s basketball team’s 2024 recruiting class started with three players. Now two of them are in the portal among four Wolverines players to leave after their first year this season.
Freshman guard Phat Phat Brooks has entered the transfer portal, according to ESPN’s Jeff Borzello on X. Brook spent only one year with Michigan after being named the state of Michigan’s Hal Schram Mr. Basketball Award recipient and the first to commit to the Wolverines since 2017.
Brooks played in 15 games off the bench in his one season with Michigan. In 3.2 minutes, he averaged 0.8 points, 0.7 rebounds and 0.2 assists per game while shooting 33.3% from the field. Brooks played in the majority of the Wolverines’ nonconference games and a few games at the beginning of Big Ten play, but he didn’t play from Dec. 29 to March 2 in the wake of conference season.
When Brooks would play, he often served as a defensive specialist and provided a momentary spark for the Wolverines’ guard room. Alongside freshman guards L.J. Cason and Justin Pippen, the trio of Michigan’s freshman guards saw a limited role throughout the season before Cason took on a greater role in the postseason, Pippen was sidelined with an injury for the entire postseason before entering the portal and Brooks’ role diminished throughout the year.
What was once a promising freshman guard room, looking to improve in their sophomore season, has been dwindled down to just Cason, as both Pippen and now Brooks have entered the transfer portal and will not play a second year with the Wolverines.
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