Michigan basketball: Signee Trey McKenney a 'good, humble person,' freshmen progressing
ANN ARBOR – The Michigan Wolverines have a McDonald’s All-American coming to campus this summer in signee Trey McKenney, the nation’s No. 16 overall recruit and a star guard locally at Orchard Lake St. Mary’s High School.
He is the program’s first McDonald’s All-American representative since Caleb Houstan, Moussa Diabate and Kobe Bufkin were selected in 2021. Last season, McKenney led his team to a Division I state title, averaging 22.8 points, 10.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game.
However, the star guard is more than just a top-notch basketball player, but also a humble and hard worker, according to one of his future coaches.
“Excited for Trey,” Michigan assistant Drew Williamson said on Thursday morning. “He deserves it. Just getting to know him over the last year, I don’t know if I’ve seen a kid work so hard as a high school player and be so humble while doing it. He’s probably doing something right now, like working out. For us as a program, it’s 100 percent great.
“But the things that I think stand out the most is what he represents. He is such a good, humble person. So not only do you have a really good McDonald’s All-American basketball player coming in, you have a real human being who’s coming here with no ego. He wants to get better, and it’s for the team. We’re very excited for him and his family and excited to get him here after [this year].”
The future is bright for Michigan with McKenney and fellow 2025 signees Winters Grady and Oscar Goodman, the latter of whom is currently with the program after reclassifying and enrolling early. Goodman will redshirt this season.
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That group will combine with this year’s freshmen class of guards in Justin Pippen, LJ Cason and Durral “Phat Phat” Brooks to set a solid foundation for the future. Williamson says the freshmen continue to come along as the season moves into its later stages.
“They’re just continuous learners,” Williamson said. “Coming into film every single day, coming to get extra work. So most of the guys that played a lot of minutes, they didn’t practice hard [on Wednesday], but those like Pippen and LJ, those guys came in and they had a real practice and no one complained.
“But it’s just about them getting better and I think offensively [Pippen] came in [the other night] and he settled us down. He’s such a calm, has a calm demeanor for a freshman.”
Michigan heads to Rutgers on Saturday afternoon for a road tilt in Piscataway. Tip-off is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. with FOX carrying the broadcast nationally.
