International basketball standout Oscar Goodman commits to Michigan
Michigan basketball coach Dusty May is on a roll. Days after landing his first 2025 small forward pledge Winters Grady, he pulled in Auckland (New Zealand) power forward Oscar Goodman, another On3.com top 100 prospect.
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Goodman visited Michigan Oct. 12 weekend after previously tripping to Georgetown and Texas Tech, and he also saw Ohio State. He averaged 17 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1.4 steals per game at the FIBA U-17 Championships this July. Sources told us then the 6-7, 225-pounder, On3’s No. 93 player overall nationally, had a great visit to Ann Arbor, and he confirmed that with us.
“It was really good,” he said. “Great staff, and such good dudes on the team.”
Goodman has already been gaining interest from NBA scouts as an international standout, playing with the NBA Global Academy, a training partnership based out of Australia. The Academy was set up to help international prospects get exposure for the next levels of basketball, offering them supervision and training at elite facilities while working with NBA-hired coaches.
It didn’t take long for Goodman to get noticed. In addition to his performance at FIBA this summer, he was name MVP of the FIBA U-16 Asian Championships in 2023. Programs like Wisconsin and others took notice and started building relationships, but now he’s down to the four programs he’s visited, Michigan having gotten the last look.
“I’m probably going to commit in the next week,” he told us Oct. 15.
A week later, he’s a Wolverine. Goodman joined Grady in finding the family atmosphere he was looking for in a program, something Grady talked about after he committed.
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“I’ve never had a bad interaction with Coach May,” Grady said. “And every time I’ve been around them all together, the whole staff seems to mesh really well. I think the fit is there purely just because they’ve said they are going to let me be me from day one.
“I think the program is 100 percent headed in the right direction with Coach May taking over. He’s super precise and knows exactly what he wants in his players. The facilities were also really nice, and a lot of them were still being renovated.”
Watch for more on this pledge and other Michigan basketball recruiting news in the days and weeks to come.
