{"id":6097,"date":"2026-08-19T23:49:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/columbia-guard-kenny-noland-signs-with-michigan-after-five-in-five-court-ruling\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:49:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:49:05","slug":"columbia-guard-kenny-noland-signs-with-michigan-after-five-in-five-court-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/columbia-guard-kenny-noland-signs-with-michigan-after-five-in-five-court-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Guard Kenny Noland signs with Michigan after five-in-five court ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-614945\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his press conference Tuesday, Michigan men\u2019s basketball coach Mike Boynton made it clear that his program wouldn\u2019t stray away from capitalizing on NCAA legislation to improve his squad. Most notably, that meant waiting for the courts to grant the high school class of 2022 a fifth year of eligibility after the NCAA created the five-in-five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/division-i-adopts-age-based-eligibility-model\/\">legislation<\/a> in late June. And while many have hypothesized that former senior guard Roddy Gayle Jr. would be the first benefactor of these rulings to come back, he\u2019s now <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TransferPortal\/status\/2090115147679310078\">beaten<\/a> by former senior Columbia Guard Kenny Noland per Pete Nakos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe will always look for opportunities to improve where we can from a roster standpoint, whenever that\u2019s an opportunity, if there\u2019s somebody that can add value,\u201d Boynton said Tuesday. \u201cObviously this is a more unique circumstance than we\u2019ve ever been presented with before because of all the court cases, but there\u2019s no doubt that we\u2019re certainly monitoring all these things, and if there\u2019s an opportunity to add somebody, we certainly will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides senior Elliot Cadeau, all of the projected guard contributors are underclassmen. Noland offers respite in that regard especially due to the fact that he was point guard for the Lions this past season. Sophomore Trey McKenney has been primed to take over the offense when Cadeau isn\u2019t on the the floor, but now Boynton can stalwart against any of the underclassmen\u2019s potential issues stemming from inexperience with Noland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An All-Ivy level player, Noland averaged 17.1 points on 37.5% shooting from beyond the line while averaging nearly four assists a game. Noland was also hyper-efficient from the line as well, making 2.5 free throws per game on 92.1% shooting.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noland offers his veteran status in a role where Michigan needs it most, and he will be a key contributor for the Wolverines through the following season.\u00a0<\/p>\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>In his press conference Tuesday, Michigan men\u2019s basketball coach Mike Boynton made it clear that his program wouldn\u2019t stray away from capitalizing on NCAA legislation to improve his squad. Most notably, that meant waiting for the courts to grant the high school class of 2022 a fifth year of eligibility after the NCAA created the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5308,3951,5311,452,5309,222,5310,5312,472],"class_list":["post-6097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-columbia","tag-court","tag-fiveinfive","tag-guard","tag-kenny","tag-michigan","tag-noland","tag-ruling","tag-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097","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=6097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6098,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6097\/revisions\/6098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}