When it comes to understanding what it’s like to be a point guard under Michigan coach Juwan Howard, there’s one person who knows best: Zavier Simpson.
Fortunately for freshman Zeb Jackson, that just happens to be the same person he grew up with, is good friends with and whose dad he played for on the AAU circuit.
“Me and him (Simpson) talk about it all the time,” Jackson said Friday on a Zoom call with reporters. “We laugh about things that we know. Like after X being here at Michigan, he knows a lot of the things that Coach Howard teaches and a lot of other things coaches teach.