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Podcast: Michigan basketball transfer portal news, spring ball stock risers, a question on Bryce Underwood and House v. NCAA settlement hearing

clayton-sayfieby:Clayton Sayfie•04/10/25•

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Bryce Underwood Rayshaun Benny Tré Williams
Michigan Wolverines football quarterback Bryce Underwood and defensive tackles Rayshaun Benny and Tré Williams.

On this episode of The Wolverine Podcast, Clayton Sayfie and Anthony Broome discuss the latest news with Michigan Wolverines basketball and the transfer portal. They also break down some spring football stock risers, and Sayfie poses a question on freshman quarterback Bryce Underwood. They wrap up the show with talk about the House v. NCAA settlement and what it means for Michigan Wolverines athletics.

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Here are estimated time stamps for each topic:
(00:00) Intro
(5:59) Michigan transfer portal updates
(24:18) Official Michigan football game ball ad
(25:56) Spring ball stock risers
(39:21) A Bryce Underwood question
(48:39) House v. NCAA settlement hearing

The hosts began by discussing the departure of guard Phat Phat Brooks from the Michigan basketball program, and more so the state of the portal in general.

“Nothing surprises you anymore,” Sayfie said. “I will say, maybe I’ll stop doing it, but I also enjoy doing it … during the year, when you watch a freshman or you see flashes here or there, it’s garbage time and you try to envision, ‘Oh, this guy could be good when he’s an upperclassman. Just imagine what he’ll be as a senior.’ I’m still going to do it because it’s more fun and I don’t want to be so cynical, but a lot of these guys won’t end up being a senior at the school you’re watching them at.”

“It’s disappointing,” Broome added. “To be a team that does not only make a Final Four, win national championships but kinda get several bites at the apple, I think that you have to have a nucleus of your own guys who have been there and been through it. I think every great team has that.

“My question — and it’s nothing against the guys themselves, it’s maybe more with the guidance they’re getting — is where are you going to go and get a better opportunity? I get that guys are going to play. But you’re at a high-major program in a top three conference in the sport — and it’s not three, in my opinion, with the quality of teams that we have every year — is it just playing time? Is it just a playing time consideration? I don’t know. I know that there’s market value now.

“You pour an entire year of development … and I’ll say this, this isn’t directly at Justin Pippen or Phat Phat Brooks or whomever … but in Phat’s case, his entire recruiting process was with another Michigan coaching staff. And he decided to stay on, and got some run at times this year. But it’s pretty clear that as you continue to recruit in the portal, that upward trajectory is not there…”

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