Four-star Winters Grady is Michigan basketball's first 2025 pledge
First-year Michigan basketball coach Dusty May’s hard work on the recruiting trail has paid off with a pledge from one of the 2025 class’s top shooters. Lake Owsego (Oregon) small forward Winters Grady has pledged to the Wolverines over Iowa, Oregon, and others.
Grady, the No. 64 player overall in the On3 industry rankings weighing all major recruiting services, visited Aug. 29, and he found what he was looking for in Ann Arbor.
“I know it’s cliche to say, but ultimately I’m looking for a family type of feel,” Grady told On3 this summer. “I’d like to have a connection with the players and a comfort with the program. I want to be able to go in and make an impact as a freshman, and that goes along with me going in and having to earn it.
“I want to be able to play free and play my game — I don’t want to go somewhere and be slotted in as just a shooter. I’ll want to play for a coach that believes in me. I want to win … that is big for me.”
Grady visited Oregon, Creighton, Oklahoma, and others. He averaged 19.5 points while shooting 37.0 percent from three, playing on the Adidas 3SSB Circuit for his Jalen Green Elite program.
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May made it clear to him he wasn’t going to be stuck in a corner and asked to just shoot the ball, and that was a huge selling point.
“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.
“Their plan for me is to play in the two/three spot where I shoot the ball, come off dribble hand-offs, and just be the scorer that I am. They don’t want to have me change my game to be there and are going to let me be me.”
As for the winning aspect …
“I think the program is 100 percent headed in the right direction with Coach May taking over,” he said “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.”
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