{"id":489,"date":"2025-03-24T23:33:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/freshman-guard-justin-pippen-entering-transfer-portal\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T23:33:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T23:33:42","slug":"freshman-guard-justin-pippen-entering-transfer-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/freshman-guard-justin-pippen-entering-transfer-portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman guard Justin Pippen entering transfer portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-535984\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>The Michigan men\u2019s basketball team is still amid its March Madness run, but its first offseason domino has already fallen. Freshman guard Justin Pippen has entered the transfer portal <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TravisBranham_\/status\/1904176039867089112\">according<\/a> to 247 Sports\u2019 Travis Branham.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pippen appeared in 28 games for the Wolverines, averaging 1.6 points per game in a limited role. He started out the year missing games while recovering from a leg injury, and hasn\u2019t travelled with the team in the postseason \u2014 both in the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments \u2014 while in concussion protocol.<\/p>\n<p>One of three freshman guards for Michigan, Pippen was likely looking to fight for a bigger role in the coming year in a crowded backcourt. Starting point guard junior Tre Donaldson has the opportunity to come back for another season, and the Wolverines are bringing in a combo guard Trey <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/player\/trey-mckenney-46127533\/\">McKenney<\/a> in next year\u2019s recruiting class as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pippen\u2019s departure opens up some of that congestion, and is the first transfer portal move for Michigan. While still in the NCAA Tournament, the Wolverines\u2019 future is already being looked at.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-footer --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Michigan men\u2019s basketball team is still amid its March Madness run, but its first offseason domino has already fallen. Freshman guard Justin Pippen has entered the transfer portal according to 247 Sports\u2019 Travis Branham.\u00a0 Pippen appeared in 28 games for the Wolverines, averaging 1.6 points per game in a limited role. He started out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[454,451,452,109,453,456,455],"class_list":{"0":"post-489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-entering","9":"tag-freshman","10":"tag-guard","11":"tag-justin","12":"tag-pippen","13":"tag-portal","14":"tag-transfer"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}