The Michigan Wolverines are looking to round out their roster and now have a new crop of potential additions to evaluate. With the hire of former Brown head coach Mike Martin to Mike Boynton Jr.’s assistant coaching staff, players at Brown are free to enter the transfer portal.
Could any follow their former ball coach to Ann Arbor? Is there another Danny Wolf hiding in the Ivy League? Here are five intriguing players at Brown to monitor.
Sophomore G Isaiah Langham (6-foot-5, 210 pounds)
There is a lot to like about Isaiah Langham’s game. He is a scrappy, big-bodied guard who has not lost a step after adding 20 pounds of muscle since arriving in Providence. With a game similar to Roddy Gayle Jr.‘s, Langham is a slasher who embraces the dirty work in the paint and affords teams lineup flexibility with his size and style. If he can continue to develop his perimeter shot (shot 19 percent from three last year on low volume) and ball-handling, he could help fill in the gaps left by the departures of multiple Michigan glue guys.
Senior G Luke Paragon (6-foot-4, 195 pounds)
Luke Paragon is a natural shooter. Last season, he was third on the team in three-point percentage (39 percent) and first among players with 20 or more attempts; he had 100. Paragon averaged 7.1 points per game on 44/39/93 shooting splits and would immediately provide Michigan some much-needed floor spacing in two- and three-guard lineups.
Senior F N’famara Dabo (6-foot-8, 235 pounds)
Why not add another elite shot blocker? N’famara Dabo was third in the Ivy League last year with 1.4 blocks per game and led the conference two years ago with 1.8. He is an old-school big man who does all his work in the paint, coupled with athleticism that makes him a constant lob threat rolling to the rim. Dabo would give Michigan another big body up front and shot-blocking insurance if Moustapha Thiam is ever in foul trouble.
Sophomore F Charlie O’Sullivan (6-foot-10, 230 pounds)
A 6-foot-10 left-handed three-point specialist? IN. Charlie O’Sullivan’s size and specific skillset would help space the floor across multiple lineups and unclog the paint if Michigan wanted to play three bigs. Big Chuck O isn’t going to offer much dynamically, but if he can sustain his 37 percent three-point shooting clip in the Big Ten, he would have a valuable role. A very similar paragraph was probably written about Duncan Robinson back then.
Junior G Jeremiah Jenkins (6-foot, 155 pounds)
Jeremiah Jenkins is a two-year starter and was the first true freshman to start a season opener for Brown since 2017. Despite his slight undersized frame, he is a natural playmaker and led the Ivy League with 5.2 assists and 1.9 steals per game last season. His 36 percent clip from three at nearly four attempts per game is also encouraging, considering it was dwelling in the teens as a freshman. Jenkins could help mitigate the loss of L.J. Cason by serving as a secondary ball-handler, running Michigan’s second unit and knocking down the occasional three-point shot.